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Design Your Own Scientific Superhero! Win $100 Gift Card!

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Mizzou Superhero Challenge:
Design Your Own Scientific Superhero

Contribute to STEM literacy and design a superhero based on real science. You could win tickets for Bill Nye’s talk at Mizzou on March 15 and a $100 gift card to the Mizzou Store! Entries should include the following:

  • Your superhero’s name, superpower, and weaknesses
  • The scientific basis for your superhero’s powers and weaknesses
  • A poster-sized drawing or computer rendering of your superhero (up to 24”x36”)
  • Optional: descriptions of your superhero’s sidekick, nemesis, and love interest

Register at http://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/superhero/ by MARCH 9, 2014.

Finalists will be judged during a poster session at Ellis Library on March 11 from 1  to 3 p.m.

The top three will be announced during Dr. Tim Evans’ program for Superhero Science at Ellis Library on March 12 at 11 am.

Dress as your favorite superhero or supervillain–or your own!

Superhero Science will be on display in Ellis Library March 3-28, 2014.

Affiliated with Decoding Science: Bridging the Gap. Engaging the Public.

http://lssp.missouri.edu/decodingscience