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UAB Alice Film Festival
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UAB Alice Film Festival |
The UAB Alice Film Festival provides
an opportunity for Alabama K-12 students to create animated movies using Alice
and submit them to a competition. Movies from the film festival will be shown at
a special event and awards will be given in several categories. The
film festival will take place
Saturday,
May 12, 2007 from 3:00pm-4:45pm in Campbell Hall at UAB Parking information and directions to the
CIS Department
can be found here.
Co-located Event!
The
High School
Programming Contest (HSPC) brings talented students from high schools
throughout Alabama to the UAB campus to participate in an organized competition.
Students individually compete to demonstrate their programming skills and
problem solving abilities by attempting to solve six programming problems within
a three hour period. Schools that have more than three contestants are also
eligible for team awards. More information about the
HSPC is available
here.
NEW!
The CIS Department will be offering a 5-week summer camp for high school and
middle school students. If you live in the Birmingham area and are interested in
the camps, more information is available
here.
General Information
What is Alice?
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Alice is an interactive 3D-programming environment from
Carnegie-Mellon University. The goal of Alice is to offer the best possible
first exposure to programming for students by providing a more intuitive
environment for teaching object-oriented programming. Throughout the United
States, several universities are using Alice to introduce computer programming
to middle school and high school students.
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Alice has been shown to be appealing to both girls and
boys. Many approaches toward teaching computer programming are not appealing
to young girls, but research has demonstrated that Alice offers benefits
toward attracting girls into computing.
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Alice is freely available for download from at
http://www.alice.org
Overview
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All students in Alabama public, private, and home schools are invited to
participate. Grade school and middle school students are also encouraged to
participate. If there is enough interest among middle/grade schools, a
separate category of awards may be created.
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To prepare for the contest, students should independently create Alice
programs that represent a movie, cartoon, or video. The movies must be
submitted electronically to the UAB judges prior to the film festival. Each
movie will be judged for an award. All movies will be shown after the keynote
presentation.
Registration
Contest Rules
Please familiarize yourself with the contest rules before
submitting your movie.
If you have any questions, please contact the organizers (contact information
below).
The official rules are available here.
Schedule of Events
Registration is from 2:30pm-3:00pm. The festival will begin
with a keynote presentation
(3:00pm-4:00pm) followed by student movies
(4:00pm-4:30pm) and the award ceremony (4:30pm-4:45pm).
List of Prizes
All students will receive a T-shirt and a certificate of
participation. Prizes will be awarded to contestants with the top three scores
computed from different categories. The list of prizes include:
Individual
1st place:
$100 gift certificate and award plaque
2nd place:
$50 gift certificate
and award plaque
3rd place: $25 gift
certificate and award plaque
Team
An award plaque will be presented to each of the top
three team movies (one per team). It is expected that the plaque will reside
with the teacher sponsoring the team.
Original Contest Flyer
The 2007 original flyer that was mailed out to all Alabama high schools is
available here.
Keynote Presentation
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A keynote presentation is planned as a common event that unites participants of
the Alice Film Festival with the contestants of the
High School Programming
Contest.
The keynote speaker will be
Dr. Caitlin Kelleher, who is a post-doctoral
researcher at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Kelleher is very active in the
development of Alice and tools that support storytelling. She is an expert in
the use of animations for storytelling as a means toward improving the awareness
of computing among girls.
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Contest Organization
Organization
To contact the organizers, please send and email to
alice-festival@cis.uab.edu, or call (205)-934-8643.
Judges
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following
organizations in providing resources and support to the Alice Film Festival:
Page last updated: February 22, 2007
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