The winners of the II National Hi Score Science – Junior Contest have been announced
The students from CEIP Manuel Bartolomé Cossío (Madrid), have won the II National Hi Score Science – Junior Contest. The prizes for the winners, which included prizes for the students and the winning class, were awarded virtually on Thursday 17 June. During the day, there was also a face-to-face tournament in which primary school students could compete online in the game’s junior mode to find out who were the savviest in science.
What is Hi Score Science?
Hi Score Science is a free, ad-free game of questions and answers with several options about science, which aims to go further than traditional games and increase the scientific culture of users. As a project developed between two research institutes, the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis (ISQCH) and the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA), CSIC-UNIZAR, it includes informative explanations of the scientific reality behind each of the answers, encouraging users’ curiosity about science. In addition, the project aims to make the users themselves feel part of the project, as they are the generators of the scientific content. To this end, national competitions have been set up at various levels: youth (14-18 years old), senior (over 18) and junior (under 14), and an absolute national online league has been created. The next edition of the league and competitions will start next September.
The free game, Hi Score Science, is available in the Play Store and Apple Store and on PC and Mac (www.HiScoreScience.org). All information about the project and how to compete in the different categories is available at www.HiScoreScience.org.
An informative project in constant movement with international recognition
The Hi Score Science project was born in 2016 in response to the need to adapt outreach activities to the world of the youngest members of the digital generation, who are currently focused on video games and new technologies. This project has progressed year after year, going from being a regional to a national project and reaching a more disadvantaged audience such as young patients admitted to hospitals, prisons, rural inhabitants and adults, a group usually far from outreach activities that allow them to participate actively and not as mere observers.
The project has been awarded first prize in the 18th edition of the Science in Action programme in the “Science Teaching Materials in Interactive Support” category (IBM Award), has received the D+i TOP seal, a national recognition that rewards the best inclusive science outreach projects, and has been nominated twice for the Third Millennium Awards.
Hi Score Science is a highly rated game among users with a score of 4.5 out of 5, a much higher score than other similar games, and currently has more than 30,000 downloads worldwide, mainly in Spain and Asia. The game has been presented in the different autonomous communities, in videogame, scientific and informative fairs, reaching 100,000 people.
A scientific team behind Hi Score Science
The Hi Score Science project has been developed between two research centres, the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis (ISQCH) and the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA), both joint centres of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza.
The project is supported by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology – Ministry of Science and Innovation, and its Network of Scientific Culture Units UCC+i, the CSIC’s Deputy Vice-Presidency for Scientific Culture and the scientific Casio project.
21/06/2021
