Chemistry and Art Competition – A Challenge For Kids’ Imagination and Creativity
Chemistry is the fundamental science behind all life and matter. What are children’s perceptions of chemists, the chemical sciences and industry which uses chemistry? Here is an opportunity for children to express their own ideas creatively, limited only by their own imagination!
For teachers, here are some rules and suggestions to tell your students:
What can be submitted?
Students are asked to create a 2D image no greater than A4 size which depicts their thoughts about chemistry, chemists or the chemical industry.
The subject of the artwork may be:
- Crystals, solutions, powders, chemical mixtures or compounds
- Laboratories or other workplaces where chemical experiments are performed
- Apparatus and equipment used in chemistry laboratories
- Factories or processing equipment used in industry associated with chemistry and chemicals such as paints, detergents and disinfectants, foodstuffs like chocolate and cheese, beverages, glass bottles and plastic containers, pharmaceutical products, fertilizers used in gardens and agriculture, etc.
- Anything else related to chemistry
What can be used to create the artwork?
- Drawing with pen, Texta, charcoal, crayon, or chalk on paper, board or similar
- Painting with watercolours, oil or acrylic paints on paper, canvas or board
- Photography – digital, Polaroid or traditional
- Collage, linotype or suitable medium or mixed media
Conditions of Entry
The competition will be open to all Australian Students, and the top artworks in each category (see below) will receive a prize.
Five categories based on year level will be:
Foundation Year (Prep or equivalent) to year 2;
Years 3 & 4;
Years 5 & 6;
Years 7 & 8;
Years 9 +
Where are entries submitted?
RACI
Attention: Alyce Scanlon-Batt
1/21 Vale Street,
North Melbourne, VIC 3051
Free to enter. Please include a stamped self-addressed envelope if you would like your artwork returned.
Entries must be submitted by: Friday 30th July 2021
Each entry must be certified by a teacher or supervising adult that the entry is the student’s own original work.
Certificates and small prizes will be awarded to the winning entries in each category.
An independent panel of judges will be appointed whose decision will be final.