| MISAC Competition |
| MISAC
runs a popular annual competition with cash prizes for both students
and their schools. The topic changes every year but is always tied
closely to the National Curriculum and can be used as a teaching aid
or an assessment. The competition is judged in two age groups: Key
Stage 3 and Key Stage 4/GCSE. Each participating student receives
a certificate for their record of achievement and every school entering
the competition is sent a pack of teaching resources.
2009 Competition
Produce an illustrated A3 poster to inform your peer group about one important aspect of the role of microbes in climate change such as soil microbes, biogases, bioethanol or landfill. You can find more information about this topic in the fact file Microbes and Climate Change which can be requested free of charge from the SGM. Previous MISAC competitions 2008 Produce an A4 sized factsheet about one drug of fungal origin. 2007 Produce an eye-catching leaflet to inform the public about the risks of Salmonella food poisoning and how to avoid it. 2006 Write a newspaper article on the outbreak of MRSA at a hospital. 2005 Produce an eye-catching A3 size poster aimed at informing the public of the importance of fungi in the production of foods, drinks and other products they buy. 2004 Produce an illustrated information leaflet suitable for distribution
by a local authority to the general public to encourage the use
of composting as an important contribtuion to the recycling of waste
materials. 2003 Produce an eye-catching A3 annotated
diagram of the human body highlighting non-specific barriers to
infection by micro-organisms. The poster is to be used as a visual
aid to support a talk given by you to your peer group. 2002 Produce an eyecatching, illustrated factsheet, in the form of a
loose insert for a teenage magazine, which increases awareness of
the diseases caused by fungi and gives ways of preventing infection. 2001 |
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