The new edition of Hi Score Science is starting. Send us your questions and dare to participate in our league
Hi Score Science is an outreach project based on the development of a video game of questions and answers about science. The project is developed between two research institutes, the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis, ISQCH, and the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon, INMA, both joint centres CSIC – University of Zaragoza.
The game, which includes questions such as “Why do we see blue veins? or “Why do we always see the same face of the moon?”, is now available free of charge and without advertising in the Apple Store https://goo.gl/q1NjKy and Play Store: https://goo.gl/GgWq6N and for PC, Mac and Linux at www.HiScoreScience.org.
The project has two contests/participation modes with different levels from primary through secondary to adult audiences. The first mode allows users to be part of the scientific development by sending us their questions and the second mode allows users to play by answering the questions competing in the online National Absolute League.
The project aims to make users feel part of the project, so it invites users to send us their questions which, once reviewed by a scientific committee made up of more than 50 researchers, are published in the application with the name of the person who sent the question. To encourage participation, competitions are set up at provincial, regional (Aragon) and national senior and junior levels, rewarding the most active users with technological gifts, visits to scientific facilities and scientific trips to the National Final, which will take place at the CSIC headquarters in Madrid on 12th April 2024.
In addition, face-to-face and virtual tournaments are created in which users compete live using their own mobiles to discover who are the wisest in science.
The rules and how to participate are available at www.HiScoreScience.org.
Participate in the V National Absolute League on-line
In addition, the project includes a national online absolute league, which will start next Thursday 28 September, in which any user of any age and education can participate and which will have a monthly online tournament.
The league will have a monthly tournament from the last Thursday of the month until the following Tuesday and will have prizes for each of the matches and for the annual winners.
In previous editions, people from different Spanish Autonomous Communities and of all ages have participated, from primary school students to university staff. The winner of the last edition was Jorge Rodrigo, a student in the second year of Bachillerato at IES Goya in Zaragoza.
All the information about the competition and the rules and regulations are available at www.HiScorescience.org.
The Hi Score Science project was born in 2016 in response to the need to adapt outreach activities to the world of the youngest, belonging to the digital generation, which is 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 40,000 downloads all over the world, 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.
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, both joint centres of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza.
The project is supported by the Deputy Vice-Presidency of Scientific Culture of the CSIC (VACC), as well as by the Científicas CASIO project, mira Editores and the museums: Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, Instituto Geológico y Geominero de España, Museo Elder de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Museo Eureka, Casa de la Ciencia de Sevilla, CIUTAT DE LES ARTS I LES CIÈNCIES, Casa de la Ciencia de Valencia, the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Zaragoza and the Planetario de Aragón, the Universidad de Cantabria, the Universidad de Alcalá.
Contact:
Beatriz Latre
646196596
blatre@unizar.es
Included are images of the last national final held in April 2023 at the CSIC Headquarters in Madrid.
And a couple of links to 1-minute videos of the national and regional finals:
27/09/2023
