Deadline: April 20, 2025
Applications are invited for the Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest 2025. The Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest is designed to highlight teen interest in science by encouraging them to showcase science in their world, in action, and in their future.
At National Eye Institute (NEI), they do research to better understand all the steps that make vision possible. They look at problems in the system at the smallest scale — in cells, neurons, and genes and the way they communicate with each other — to examine the causes of diseases that lead to vision loss. They discover new treatments for diseases. And they develop helpful technologies for people who have lost vision.
It all starts with science, and young people are the ones who will take science into the future. That’s why they launched the Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest.
Categories
- Category 1: Science in your world
- Being a scientist is simple—it’s really just following your curiosity about the world around you. The impact of science is everywhere: from brushing your teeth in the morning to the smartphone you plug in before you go to bed or the antibiotics you take when you’re sick. Teach them about a discovery that impacts your life or the ways you see science currently making a difference in it.
- Category 2: Science in action
- Science is discovery in action! A scientist is not a person who memorizes facts in a science textbook. Rather, a scientist is someone who asks questions about the world and tests those questions through controlled experiments. And the best part is that research doesn’t need to be done in a lab! Show them some science in action by demonstrating an experiment.
- Category 3: Science in your future – Imagination
- The future is in your hands! Science will play an important role in finding solutions to the big challenges they all face. Science has already helped them in so many ways, from preventing disease to improving the daily life. Describe how science will affect the future or teach them about the way a current discovery will impact the future.
Prizes
Total cash prize is $6,000.
- “Science in your world” winner: $2,000
- “Science in action” winner: $2,000
- “Science in your future” winner: $2,000.
Eligibility
To be eligible to win a prize under this challenge, a Participant (whether an individual or group of individuals):
- At the time of submission, participants must be enrolled in 9th – 12th grade in a high school within the United States or its territories, including public schools, private schools, validated home-schools, magnet schools, charter schools, parochial schools, military schools, virtual schools where students are working toward a G.E.D (high school diploma), and alternative equivalent school options.
- Shall have registered to participate in the challenge under the rules promulgated by NIH as published in this announcement;
- Shall have complied with all the requirements set forth in this announcement;
- Shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, for purposes of winning an NIH cash prize. However, non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents can participate as members of a team that otherwise satisfies the eligibility criteria.
- Non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents are not eligible to win a monetary prize (in whole or in part). They are eligible to win non-monetary prizes, if provided. Their participation as part of a winning team, if applicable, may be recognized when the results are announced;
- Shall not be a federal entity or federal employee acting within the scope of their employment;
- Shall not be an employee of HHS (or any other component of HHS) acting in their personal capacity;
- A person employed by a federal agency or entity other than HHS (or any component of HHS), should consult with an agency Ethics Official to determine whether the federal ethics rules will limit or prohibit the acceptance of a prize under this challenge;
- Shall not be a judge of the challenge, or any other party involved with the design, production, execution, or distribution of the challenge or the immediate family of such a party (i.e., spouse, parent, stepparent, child or step-child).
Application
For more information, visit Eye on the Future Teen Video Contest.
