Date: 10-12 September (Friday – Sunday)

Time: 11:00am – 6:00pm

The 31 shortlisted teams from the Audition Round will compete for votes from the public for 3 consecutive days and the top 9 scoring teams, plus 1 wildcard team, will advance to the Final Round.

There will be “Science Circus” science shows by Mr Rhys Thomas from U.S. at 2pm and 5pm daily. There will also be several free hands-on activity booths set up for children to play with and learn science at the same time.

This event does not require registration beforehand and admission is free!

So come and find out more on what science busking shows the teams will be presenting and cast your votes to your favourite teams! Also, do not miss out the Science Circus show and some simple and fun activities!

See you at Plaza Singapura!

Date:  7^th September (Tuesday)

Time: 10am-3:30pm

Venue: Maxwell Auditorium at Level 1 of Science Centre

Schedule:

9.45am – 10.00am Registration

10.00am – 10.30am Introduction and briefing on the Busking Round

10.30am – 1.00pm “How To Be Interesting – incongruity and audience expectation” by Rhys Thomas, guest science   performer  from U.S.

1.00pm – 2.00pm Buffet lunch

2.00pm – 3.30pm “Science Demonstrations with Simple Tools” by Dr Sow Chorng Haur, N.U.S. Physics Demonstration Lab

Information on the workshop:

A. “How To Be Interesting – incongruity and audience expectation.” by Mr Rhys Thomas

In this exclusive workshop to the Busking Round participants, Mr Rhys Thomas (Professional science performer from U.S.) will be addressing the basics of sparking the public’s interest using costume, performance, and humor. This workshop is specially targeted to help you to perform to your best in the Busking Round.

About Mr Thomas:

With nothing more than a college education and thousands of hours of practice, Rhys taught himself enough juggling, comedy and physics to go from Seattle street performer to international stage sensation. Among his many accolades in 20+ years of performing, Mr Thomas has appeared on worldwide television teaching the mathematics of juggling AND be quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on the same ecclectic topic, as well as twice representing the U.S. at the Street Theater World Cup in Shizuoka, Japan.

B. “Science Demonstrations with Simple Tools” by Associate Professor Sow Chorng Haur

In this workshop, Dr Sow would be showing a few examples on how to make use of simple tools to illustrate interesting scientific phenomena and to engage you in exercises to develop scientific concepts from the demonstrations shown. 

About Dr Sow:

Besides being the Assistant Dean (Outreach) at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of SIngapore, Dr Sow is passionate about performing and explaining science to the public. He manages the Physics Demonstration Lab team and can be seen frequently performing his demos to students and public.

Registration details:

We strongly encourage at least 1 member from each team to take part in the Crucible Workshop, as important information about the Busking Round and Final Round will be shared with you then.

 To register, please email the names of the attending members from your team to upstream@science.edu.sg by 3rd September.

See you on the Crucible Workshop!

We thank everyone for their hard work and support of the event! The panel of judges had a difficult task in short listing the below 31 teams. For those who are selected, there will be a workshop on 6 or 7 September conducted by Rhys Thomas, an experienced performer from US to help you further enhance your busking performances!

Congratulation to the following teams!

Teams shortlisted from 5^th August:

1. Best Buskers Team
2. Magical Science
3. Scienthusiast
4. Water Rocket
5. BuzzScience
6. Storm
7. Insworld Intellectuals
8. Eureka
9. CheMagic

Teams shortlisted from 6^thAugust:

1. E-lite kinetics
2. The 3 Science Mice
3. Evenly Odd
4. Magnetic Field
5. Sinking & Floating
6. Please Release Me! Set Me Free!

Teams shortlisted from 7^th August:

1. The Er Trio
2. Combusters
3. The L.C.T
4. Da Wateva
5. The Balloon Tricksters
6. The Busketeer
7. JJA
8. The Science Dummies
9. The Steins
10. The Liquidators
11. Young Sciencetists
12. Which witch is a genie genius
13. Dry Ice Girls
14. The Punchlines
15. Boomz
16. Burnanza

We will keep you updated with more details regarding the Crucible Workshop and the Busking Round. Please look out for our emails!

For more details of the festival – Click on the “The Competition” tab at the top right corner.

To register – Click on the “Registration” tab at the top right corner.

If you have any questions, please email us at upstream[at]science.edu.sg or call us at 6425 2590! Your registration will be acknowledged soonest.

See you soon!

Science Buskers Festival organisers

Here are the details of the briefing session:

Date: 8 July 2010 (Thursday) 

Time: 3.30pm

Venue: Science Centre Singapore

The briefing session will provide information of the various rounds in the competition, discuss more tips for effective busking, as well as provide further details for those who are new to this event!

Here’s how to register for the briefing:

 E-mail your Name (s) and the total number of people coming for the briefing to upstream@science.edu.sg. Please indicate “Science Buskers Festival Briefing” in your subject title.

 Those who are interested to participate are strongly encouraged to attend this briefing as important information will be shared with you. So come on down to the Science Centre and we hope to see you there!

Our past winning teams, “Chemagic: Team Metathesis” and “Three Busketeers” were having fun displaying their skills at the Science Centre booth, while “Sweetheart the Clown” was performing on the main stage for both days!

There was plenty of queries about the festival, so we hope this will carry on into more participants for the Festival this year!

Will upload some pics soonest

We will be putting up a busking display at the Science Centre booth at the upcoming MOE Excel Fest @ Suntec Convetion Hall 401. Some of our past winners will be showing off their skills then!

The exhibition will be open to public visitors on 6th Mar 2010, Saturday, 10am – 7pm. Join us there!

More details here @ www.excelfest.com

With Science Buskers Festival 2010 in the works, we have completely revamped and updated our website for it!

We have redesigned the website to integrate all the features in an accessible manner.

Many of the old site’s convenience are included, like the online registration page. We have improved the general layout to easier browsing.

Our videos will be hosted on YouTube from now onwards, to take advantage of their advanced features, reliability and flexibility. The videos from the past two competitions have been uploaded!

Enjoy the new website!