The April 2015 issue of Advanced Materials & Processes announced the creation of a new award, the Material Choice Award, sponsored by the ASM Education Foundation. I'll let Foundation Director of Development and Operations, Nichol Campana, introduce the award as she did in her monthly column.
[T]he award...is intended to familiarize middle and high school students with the materials profession and show the importance of materials in "cool" products or applications.I like the idea. It's easy enough to point out basic materials to students - iron, cement, steel, PVC - but the world of materials is radically more interesting than that. We have carbon fiber, glass filled polymers, shrilk, graphene, aerographite, pykrete, and even thinking putty.
Interested teams will have to compete in an essay contest to winnow down the initial numbers to ten, a Facebook like contest to turn ten into six, and finally a three-minute "elevator pitch" video to find the final winners. Initial essays will be due December 4, 2015.
Personally, I'd recommend buckyballs. They're funny to say.
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