Croatia Famelab winner 2010  - Ivana Strazic



Croatia Famelab winner 2010 Ivana Strazic is biology student from Zagreb (Faculty of Science). She won by presenting Slimy love story.  Ivana Strazic was second by the jury vote and first by the audience vote at this year's FameLab international.

Last year's winner, Maja Marasovic, was also second by the jury vote and first by the audience vote at the FameLab international held on Saturday 6 June 2009 in Cheltenham.

What is it?
FameLab was set up in 2004 by Cheltenham Science Festival in partnership with NESTA (the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts).

Since its inception in 2001, Cheltenham Science Festival has had a good track record of finding and developing new talent in communicating science and engineering to a wider public. FameLab builds on that informal work, using a high-profile national event to attract those with the potential to share their enthusiasm for science and technology. The model is familiar from TV programmes (like Pop Idol and Story Supernova) where candidates have just 3 minutes to prove themselves to a panel of expert judges, with only the best going forward to the next round.

FameLab in Croatia is run by the British Council and the Festival of Science, in co-operation with a number of Croatian institutions. It is supported by the Croatian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and sponsored by Raiffeisen Consulting.

Entrants:

Entrants are:

Closing performance at this year's FameLab

The content must be scientifically accurate. Where there is controversy or uncertainty among researchers, the presentation should include something of this context, and the topic should also be well chosen for the audience.

Clarity in communicating the idea or topic is also essential. However simple or ambitious the subject matter, the audience should be left with a good grasp of it. The key question is: after hearing the presentation, could they explain the content to someone else?

But as well as learning something, the audience should be inspired, so FameLab is also looking for that hard-to-describe but unmistakable quality: charisma The winner will be the one who makes science exciting, fascinating, who shares not just the subject but their passion for it.

Structure and Timing:

We organised three regional competitions (Osijek, Split and Zagreb). Winner and two runners up from each of the regional competitions competed in the finals.

Schedule of each of the competitions depended on the number of entrants, but the components of each of the competitions are as follows:

• Registration
• First round
  
• Second round, followed by the session where jury asks questions and gives feedback
  
• Announcement of  winners

Presentation:

• For the pre-competition, it is necessary to prepare 2 lectures on 2 different topics in Croatian language.
• Should not last more than 3 minutes
• NO PowerPoint
• The contestants may use only those aids that take no longer than one minute to install on the stage by the contestants themselves.