Planet-SciCast Entry Form

Please read the following carefully.

There are three parts to the process of entering your film into the Planet SciCast Competition:

Step 1 Choose, print and sign/get signed your appropriate Creative Commons Licence,

Step 2 Fill-in and submit the online form so we have information about your movie and some other general information,

Step 3 Print, fill-in and post the personal details form with your film and ensure you have completed all the steps in the checklist.

Don't worry, it's not too complicated, please follow the instructions as you go along. Click here If you need to read the instructions about how to format your film.

Step 1

You will need to sign Creative Commons Licenses. If you have a "leader" only they need to sign a licence, if not each member should sign a copy. Under 16s must get the licence counter-signed by a responsible adult. Select the appropriate licence for your area below:

England and Wales Licence, (full legal blurb.)

Scotand Licence, (full legal blurb.)

Ireland (SciCast Physics only) and Northern Ireland Licence, (full legal blurb.)

Step 2

Ok here's the bit about your film: please fill this in and then when you are happy with it, press submit. (After that there is more, don't go away.)


  1. Title of Film
  2. Production Team Name

    (remember we are advising against you calling your team after your school, or your real names, for security reasons.)
  3. Contact email address for production team
  4. Region of the UK
  5. First half of your postcode: i.e. NN13, N1, SY17
  6. Date you made the film, month then year in numbers, please write month and whole year, i.e. April 2007
  7. Duration of the Film, minutes and seconds, i.e. 2'14"

    Team Members Information

  8. How many in your team (max five)
  9. How many under 11
  10. How many 11 - 14
  11. How many 15 - 18
  12. How many over 18
  13. How many teachers
  14. Are you, or any of your team professional film makers (i.e. earn money out of any aspect of film or television or web broadcast, including directing, writing, producing, camera work, art or design work or presentation to camera?).

    yes no

  15. Source for the demonstration or experiment.

    We'll write up your experiment to help viewers who wish to repeat it. Please give us a hand by noting the book or website, if any, in which you found the experiment, or note any particular advice you can give us:

  16. Short description, in no more than 20 words please describe your film (we'll use this to help us get a short description onto the site with your film)

  17. Declaration that we (the above SciCast production Team) have made sure we have not used any music, images, film clips, or other content not authored by our SciCast Team without checking the original authors have allowed use of their work in this way

    yes no 
  18. Has taking part in this project spurred you on to do more science demonstrations?

    In school: yes no
  19. At home: yes no
  20. I heard about SciCast from

    If other please state
  21. Any feedback about the competition? Good or bad - it's all helpful:
  22. Finally - in compliance with NESTA's policy on data protection we promise not to share your information with anyone else. We will use your email to send you details of next year's Scicast competition, and possibly other projects that the ETB/IOP/NESTA run, that may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive such emails please tick this box.

Thanks for all that. Once you have pressed submit the logging system will give you another form with a unique number on it. That's your film's SciCast number, keep it somewhere safe and use it if you ever need to write to us.