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The UAB Alice Film Festival provides an opportunity for Alabama K-12 students to create video games and animated movies using Alice and submit them to a competition. Movies from the film festival are shown at a special event and awards are given in several categories. The film festival will take place on Saturday May 10, 2008 from 1:00pm-4:45pm at Campbell Hall on the UAB campus.
Related Event: The High School Programming Contest (HSPC) brings talented students from high schools throughout Alabama to the UAB campus to participate in an organized competition. Students individually compete to demonstrate their programming skills and problem solving abilities by attempting to solve six programming problems within a three hour period. Schools that have more than three contestants are also eligible for team awards. More information about the HSPC is available here.
Related Event: The CIS Department offers a 5-week summer camp for high school and middle school students. If you are interested in the camps, more information is available here.
Alice is an interactive 3D-programming environment from Carnegie-Mellon University. The goal of Alice is to offer the best possible first exposure to programming for students by providing a more intuitive environment for teaching object-oriented programming. Throughout the United States, several universities are using Alice to introduce computer programming to middle school and high school students.
Alice has been shown to be appealing to both girls and boys. Many approaches toward teaching computer programming are not appealing to young girls, but research has demonstrated that Alice offers benefits toward attracting girls into computing.
Alice is freely available for download at http://www.alice.org
All students in Alabama public, private, and home schools were invited to participate.
To prepare for the contest, students independently create Alice programs that represent a video game, movie, cartoon, or video. The movies are submitted electronically to the UAB judges prior to the film festival. Each movie is judged for an award. All movies are shown after the keynote presentation.
All submissions will be shown once during the Film Festival, which will be from 1pm-3pm on May 10th, 2008. Those movies that are presented with awards will be shown to the combined HSPC audience during the awards ceremony. Those receiving awards must be present at the festival.
The official rules are available here.
Registration for this event is limited to one individual program and one team program per participant.
After filling out the pre-registration form below, each participant will be sent an email in April with information on how to download their specific .a2w Alice program. Information on where to send the registration fee will also be sent with this email.
Registration is $10 per student.
List of Prizes
All participants will receive a T-shirt and a certificate of participation. Prizes will be awarded to contestants with the top four scores computed from different categories (Elementary School, Middle School, High School). Over $1000 in prizes will be awarded, including:
Individual
First place: $100 gift certificate and award plaque
Second place: $50 gift certificate and award plaque
Third place: $25 gift certificate and award plaque
Fourth place: award plaqueTeam
An award plaque will be presented to each of the top two team movies (one plaque per team).
Original Contest Flyer
The 2008 original flyer that was mailed out to all Alabama high schools is available here.
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The results of previous file festivals are available, including photos, submitted movies, and various videos. The past contests are organized by year of competition:
To contact the organizers, please send and email to alice-festival@cis.uab.edu, or call (205)-934-8643.
Judges
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations in providing resources and support to the Alice Film Festival:
Page last updated: April 12, 2008