About Planet SciCast

SciCast is four things:

  1. A competition to get children, young people, teachers, parents, science communicators and science/engineering/technology professionals all making short films about practical science.

  2. A web resource of all those movies (plus write-ups of the activities, experiments and demonstrations), for the use and amusement of everyone involved, and particularly for schools.

  3. A platform to help other science engagement projects share their work with a wider audience.

  4. A discussion about whose responsibility it is to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with entertaining science-related material.

About SciCast 6-way

SciCast is a big project, involving several events regionally and nationally, dozens of schools, and thousands of individuals. Getting your head around it can be a bit daunting. If you’re feeling daunted, try watching a film. If you didn’t like that one, try another.

When you’re ready to find out more about the background to SciCast — how it came to be, what it’s all about, and what it’s all about really — come back here again, and explore some of the following links.

Alternatively, if you’d rather find out about the SciCast Awards, click through to that section of this site.