Entry Form

Remember we only want your ideas on the entry form, actual exhibit will not be created until you are selected as a finalist.
Download the Entry Form (PDF)

Examples of Exhibits

Science fair exhibit

• Foam board exhibit outlining your method, data collection, findings, and recommendations. Start a daily meal/snack audit and find out how much calcium you actually take in for a week. Report the findings and propose three ways you can change your daily eating habits to include more calcium.
• Plan an experiment based on a hypothesis relating calcium to bone strength, record your observations, and present your findings and conclusions.

Drama Skit

• Take the role of a dietician or nutritionist working with a youth who has experienced bone fractures, plan and describe the best diet and exercise to help improve bone strength.

Display models illustrating the route calcium takes to the bone.

• Do a lab experiment with the nutrient calcium to show how it gets absorbed in the body.

Copies of your magazine, blow up photos of articles.

• Create a teen magazine about the value of calcium in health, diet, exercise, etc. Interview scientists, famous teens and others about what they know about calcium and how that knowledge affects their diet.

Sing and dance your creation, show video when not performing.

• Write a rap song, design a dance to go with it about cheese, calcium, bones, and exercise.
  Drawing of exercises linked to model of skeleton.

Design a teen gym class that highlights different weight bearing exercises, each building up different parts of the skeleton.

Note: many of these examples are taken from an osteoporosis prevention curriculum developed by Rutgers University.3) Prizes: Please remove current page and use this text listed for prizes as seen in RULES pages – as in below:

Prizes
Judges will determine the grand prize winners from those presenting their persuasive peer-to-peer message on calcium to the public at the Big Bones Bash on November 10, 2007.

All Finalists will receive a Big Bones Bash T-Shirt and an official Certificate of Participation.

Grand Prize Winners will receive cash awards made payable to the sponsoring organization or school. A total of 27 cash awards will be made.

Cash Awards
Two - $1000
Five - $500
Ten - $100