Due September 1st, 2010 - The Tech Museum is looking for a few great video clips to run inside a brand new gallery dedicated to microchips - the hearts of the machines that maginify our thinking abilities.

Microchips are part of our everyday lives - embedded in everything from toasters to the fastest computers. This competition is a unique opportunity to get creative, visualize some new ideas, and have  them seen by thousands of museum and online visitors.

Categories
Using your video skills, make a creative and fun short video (2 minutes or less) about:

     A World Without Chips - What would the world be like without microchips?  Would we have found other ways to do things computers do now? How would things be different? Easier? Slower? Faster? Would there be different inventions to achieve the same things? Use your imagination to show us the modern world without microchips.
     Inside the Chip - What goes on inside a chip? Inside each microchip a massive collection of tiny switches called transistors turn on and off at incredible speeds. Computers work by changing all their data into a high-speed sets of on/off instructions called binary code.  What would it be like if you pulled off the top of a computer chip? What would it look like to see the billions of interactions?
     The Future of Thinking Machines - What kind of things will become possible as computers become even faster and smaller than they are now? How will the world change in ways no one has thought of yet? Stretch your mind and show us the future you see when computers have gone beyond all our expectations.

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Prizes
* One best overall video will receive a Grand Prize of $1,000.
* Three videos will receive Best in Category prizes of $500 each for A World Without Chips, Inside the Chip, and The Future of Thinking Machines categories.
* Four honorable mentions will each receive $100.
* One or more of the best videos will be selected for inclusion in The Tech Museum's new space dedicated to microchips gallery.

Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years of age to enter.