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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 and video games from the film festival are shown at a special event and awards are given in several categories. This year's film festival will take place in early April, 2010. The specific date will be defined soon.
Related Event: The UAB 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 the UAB Summer Computer Camps - a 4-week series of summer camps for high school and middle school students. If you are interested in the camps, more information is available here.
Invitation: If you are interested in attending the event as an observer (not as a formal participant), please express your interest by sending an email to alice-festival@cis.uab.edu.
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 help motivate an interest in computing among 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 are 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 16th, 2009. 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. Please read the rules carefully to ensure that submissions are not disqualified.
Directions and Parking Information
Parking information and directions to the CIS Department can be found here.
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 gift certificates and award plaques. The specific prizes for each category will be defined soon.
Official Program and Schedule
TBD
The Keynote speaker will be announced soon.
The results of previous file festivals are available, including photos, submitted movies, and various videos. The past contests are organized by year of competition:
2008 Film Festival (coming soon)
To contact the organizers, please send and email to alice-festival@cis.uab.edu, or call (205)-934-8697.
Judges
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations in providing resources and support to the Alice Film Festival:
Page last updated: Feb 4, 2010