Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest 2025 for U.S. Students ($6,000 total prize) – YOA

Deadline: April 20, 2025

Applications are invited for the Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest 2025. The Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest is designed to focus on teen curiosity in science by encouraging them to showcase science of their world, in motion, and of their future.

At National Eye Institute (NEI), they do analysis to raised perceive all the steps that make imaginative and prescient doable. They take a look at issues in the system at the smallest scale — in cells, neurons, and genes and the method they convey with one another — to look at the causes of illnesses that result in imaginative and prescient loss. They uncover new remedies for illnesses. And they develop useful applied sciences for individuals who have misplaced imaginative and prescient.

It all begins with science, and younger persons are the ones who will take science into the future. That’s why they launched the Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest.

Categories

• Category 1: Science in your world
  • Being a scientist is easy—it’s actually simply following your curiosity about the world round you. The influence of science is in every single place: from brushing your enamel in the morning to the smartphone you plug in earlier than you go to mattress or the antibiotics you’re taking while you’re sick. Teach them a couple of discovery that impacts your life or the methods you see science at present making a difference in it.
• Category 2: Science in motion
  • Science is discovery in motion! A scientist is just not an individual who memorizes details in a science textbook. Rather, a scientist is somebody who asks questions on the world and checks these questions by means of managed experiments. And the finest part is that analysis doesn’t must be performed in a lab! Show them some science in motion by demonstrating an experiment.
• Category 3: Science in your future – Imagination
  • The future is in your arms! Science will play an necessary function find options to the huge challenges all of them face. Science has already helped them in so some ways, from stopping illness to bettering the every day life. Describe how science will have an effect on the future or train them about the method a present discovery will influence the future.

Prizes

Total money prize is $6,000.

• “Science in your world” winner: $2,000
• “Science in action” winner: $2,000
• “Science in your future” winner: $2,000.

Eligibility

To be eligible to win a prize underneath this problem, a Participant (whether or not a person or group of people):

• At the time of submission, members have to be enrolled in ninth – twelfth grade in a highschool inside the United States or its territories, together with public colleges, personal colleges, validated home-schools, magnet colleges, constitution colleges, parochial colleges, army colleges, digital colleges the place college students are working towards a G.E.D (highschool diploma), and various equal faculty choices.
• Shall have registered to take part in the problem underneath the guidelines promulgated by NIH as revealed on this announcement;
• Shall have complied with all the necessities set forth on this announcement;
• Shall be a citizen or everlasting resident of the United States, for functions of successful an NIH money prize. However, non-U.S. residents and non-everlasting residents can take part as members of a staff that in any other case satisfies the eligibility standards.
• Non-U.S. residents and non-everlasting residents aren’t eligible to win a financial prize (in entire or in part). They are eligible to win non-financial prizes, if supplied. Their participation as part of a successful staff, if relevant, could also be acknowledged when the outcomes are introduced;
• Shall not be a federal entity or federal worker appearing inside the scope of their employment;
• Shall not be an worker of HHS (or some other part of HHS) appearing of their private capability;
• An individual employed by a federal company or entity aside from HHS (or any part of HHS), ought to seek the advice of with an company Ethics Official to find out whether or not the federal ethics guidelines will restrict or prohibit the acceptance of a prize underneath this problem;
• Shall not be a choose of the problem, or some other get together concerned with the design, manufacturing, execution, or distribution of the problem or the speedy household of such a celebration (i.e., partner, dad or mum, stepparent, child or step-child).

Application

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For extra info, go to Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest.