Posted on 08/29/2006 12:10:40 PM PDT by Sneakyuser
I've made available nine free "MacGyverism" science project videos online and am sponsoring an Energy-saving competition.
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I've made available nine free "MacGyverism" science project videos online and am sponsoring an Energy-saving competition. Details are included below:
The first annual Energy-Saving Video Competition at YouTube.com starts now - sponsored by Sneakyuses.com. Videomakers can now use their creativity to help save our resources and win prizes. They can enter by uploading a short video clip at YouTube.com.
Nine sample how-to videos and competition details are posted at: http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?add&name=Recycle
Videos must be posted on YouTube.com in the Recycle Group before December 15th. Awards include a DVD player, a portable MP3 Player with thumb drive and a USB WiFi adapter. Winners will be announced in a YouTube video, and at Sneakyuses.com, on January 15th 2007.
How To Enter:
Create Your Video - Length limit: 2 minutes - Must include at least one of the following: an unusual fact about alternate energy; a demonstration of resource conservation; or a creative reuse of an everyday object. Energy-saving, alternate energy and related links are posted at www.Sneakyuses.com on the Free Projects page.
Sign In To YouTube & Upload Your Video
A. Go To: http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?add&name=Recycle (If you do not have an account, it’s free to join.)
B. Fill Out Your Info: Name, email address, username and password.
C. Join The Recycle Group: You must join the group and add your video to be officially entered.
About Sneakyuses.com
Sneakyuses.com promotes resource conservation with clever reuse of everyday objects with how-to projects, books ("Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things").
“Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things” has a science reuse and conservation theme illustrating how we can do much more than we think with what we already have.
The book, a sequel to the bestseller "Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things," offers such projects as: turning milk into a plastic, making a radio with a penny, detecting counterfeit currency and turning on toys with a magnet, storing a survival kit inside a watch, receiving aircraft signals with an AM/FM radio and how devices can be placed in clothing to make a 007 'gadget jacket.'
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things is now in its 12th printing and Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things is already in its 5th. Each book includes over 40 projects and amazing stories about resourcefulness.
Gayle Anderson of KTLA Channel 5 News reported that parents saw an improvement in their children’s grades in science after reading the books. A Minneapolis school has recently developed resourcefulness courses based on the book. “Sneaky Uses” has been featured in publications including the Los Angeles Times and U.S. News & World Report, on NPR’s Science Fridays and on television shows including KTLA Morning News, Chicago's CBS Tech Tuesday Show and CNN Headline News.
Publishers Weekly says: "Offering readers a chance to become real-life MacGyvers, Tymony's “Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things” shares a mixed bag of useful and useless tricks. The book, which may remind 007s-in-training of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, offers sections on gimmicks, gadgets and survival techniques (the last section is by far the most valuable).
The National Science Teacher Association says: "On the old television series “MacGyver,” the hero was always getting out of tough situations by making practical devices out of simple materials. The author of Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things interests students in the wonders of science by showing them how to do their own amazing MacGyver feats. This approach not only gets students interested in science, but also encourages good critical thinking by students as they solve practical problems."
For more information see http://www.sneakyuses.com
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