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<\/p>\nIn this blog, we give a recap of the Major Challenge, 2022 prompt, and relevant resources students can use for their projects!<\/p>\n
The Major Challenge is the second stage of the Science Challenge, where participants are invited to investigate a project of their choosing and present their findings in a 4-minute video. Students may choose to improve a previous project, expand upon a Minor Challenge or choose a completely new topic of interest.<\/p>\n
Participants have the choice of selecting this prompt or a topic of their own choosing for the Major Challenge. We hope the prompt may serve as some inspiration for your project.<\/p>\n
The Science Challenge Team and KPMG are excited to announce our Major Challenge prompt for this year:<\/p>\n
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One of the biggest human impacts on the natural environment is in the form of climate change – How can we work to reduce our negative impact on the environment and\u00a0minimise the effects of climate change?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
With an increasing number of human communities come\u00a0more ways of exploiting the environment, for example, clearing of land for buildings and transportation, deforestation, and more. This leads to a bigger sustainability problem – Is there a limit to how many\u00a0resources the planet can provide for us? And if so, what will we do when we reach this limit?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
How can we live in harmony with Earth? This can\u00a0include the\u00a0physical and chemical properties of the planet, such as\u00a0the atmosphere, tidal movements and mineral resources; or biological life\u00a0including\u00a0animal species and our diverse ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
How can we use technology to restore\u00a0Earth? Some advanced real-life examples are technologies that help detect wildfires in remote areas; emerging technologies that reuse and recycle plastics; renewable energy sources; and so much more.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
How can we use technology to preserve and support our\u00a0biodiversity? Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth, including plants, animals, bacteria and fungi.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Science Buddies<\/strong> has some great ideas regarding environmental science and sustainability that students can explore further.\u00a0Here are some\u00a0Earth Day activities<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Environmental STEM projects<\/a>\u00a0which might be interesting!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n National Geographic<\/strong> has many interactive activities\u00a0to help students learn more about environment science, ecology and sustainability. For example,\u00a0Humans Induce and Reduce Environmental Disasters<\/a>, and\u00a0Human Impacts on the Environment<\/a>. Students can also look for more ideas and articles in the\u00a0Resource Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The\u00a0Scientific American Education Resources List<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has many stories, activities, citizen science projects, and articles relating to a variety of STEM topics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The US Environmental Protection Agency<\/strong> has some great\u00a0Environmental Science Resources<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0US Energy Information Administration<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has\u00a0games, activities, and articles on energy for students.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n We hope this gives students some ideas for their Major Challenge projects!<\/p>\n Students can see here<\/a> for examples of past Major Challenge entries! For more information on the Major Challenge, please refer to our\u00a0Competition Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this blog, we give a recap of the Major Challenge, 2022 prompt, and relevant resources students can use for their projects! What is the Major Challenge? The Major Challenge …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencechallenge.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}