Fine Particle Arts Competition - 2024 AAAR Annual Conference

The 7^th Annual Fine Particle Arts Competition will be held at the 42^nd Annual AAAR Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is your chance to showcase your creative side and help educate the world about aerosols! Entries from past editions of the competition can be seen here. There are two categories for the Fine Particle Arts Competition:

● Art: Submit an image of your most beautiful, interesting, or artistic-looking particle(s) or other images of aerosols or research equipment. There are two submission categories – images at the microscopic and non-microscopic scale.

● Video: Create an engaging and educational video to explain aerosol science to a wider audience. Submitted videos will be screened by the Online Education Committee and the top 5 entries will be featured at the Conference. For more information on the rules and selection process see below.

Art prizes for each category (microscopic and non-microscopic) are the following:

First prize $400, Second prize $300, Third prize $150.

Video prize: First prize $600, Second prize $450, Third prize $250.

To enter the Art or Video Competition, log into the Abstract Submission Site at https://aaarabstracts.com/2024/member-index.php After logging in, click on the Submit button that appears in the Navigation bar.

● For the Art Competition, electronically submit a high-resolution image as a PDF file with a title, list of contributing artists and their affiliations, and two descriptions of your submission:

○ One brief, 140-character blurb describing the piece for social media, and

○ One paragraph-length (100-word) artwork label that will accompany your submission when posted, which describes your submission and conveys the context, motivation, and/or process behind the work.

● For the Video Competition, please upload your video to YouTube. On the submission site, please provide a video title, list of contributing artists and affiliations, and the YouTube link. Submissions should also include the following two descriptions:

○ One brief, 140-character blurb describing the video for social media, and

○ The Video Description text included with your YouTube video (As a reference, video descriptions have a limit of 5000 characters.)

Art entries will be displayed near the posters and the top videos will be available to view during the Conference at the AAAR Membership Booth. Each Attendee will receive a ballot in their Welcome Packet. A democratic vote will determine the winners of the cash prizes. Winners will be announced during Friday’s Plenary Session.

Submissions should be the original work of the author(s). Submission indicates permission for your picture or video to be displayed at the Conference, on the AAAR website/Conference website or related literature, including the Particulars e-Newsletter or LinkedIn.

To participate, at least one of the artists is required to be a registered attendee at the conference. Note that you must bring a hard copy of your art to display at the Conference. The deadline to enter the Competition is October 4, 2024 11:59 pm (ET).

If you have any questions, please contact the respective coordinators of the competitions:

● Drs. Ricardo Morales (r.moralesb@uniandes.edu.co) and Joseph Woo (wooj@lafayette.edu), Online Education Committee

Rules for the Video Competition:

● Entries can be from an individual or a group as long as at least one member of the team is registered to attend AAAR.

● Videos must be produced in the last 12 months prior to AAAR 2024 Fall Meeting.

● Submissions must be 3 min or less.

● Submissions should not contain any copyright information as winning videos will be freely available to the public via AAAR's website and/or YouTube. It is the responsibility of the participant to ensure that there is no copyrighted material used in the videos.

● Videos should be relevant to either topics covered during the sessions of AAAR (e.g. atmospheric chemistry and physics, instrumentation, bioaerosols etc.) or broader topics such as air pollution, human health and climate change. Please reach out to the Online Education Committee if you have questions about appropriateness of your chosen topic.

Information on the Video Competition selection process:

● The Online Education Committee will choose up to 5 videos from the submissions as finalists for the competition during AAAR. These videos will be chosen based on the following criteria

○ Relevance: Does your video grapple with core AAAR content?

○ Accessibility: Is your video content easy to understand / thought-provoking?

○ Engagement: Is your video fun to watch?