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QuikSCience Music Challenge

The QuikSCience Music Challenge 2010!

Consent Form (PDF/43k)
Submission Form (PDF/36k)
Detailed Info (PDF/11k)

Past Winning Submissions:
2009 Winners
2008 Winners
2007 Winners

Enter the 2010 QuikSCience Music Challenge!

Registration begins – October 1, 2009
Click to view Music Challenge Flyer (PDF/168k)
Get your entries in by: February 19, 2010!
Open house - winners announcement
on March 25, 2010

Get into the groove! Get your musical group tuned up and start composing! Create an original prize winning song about the oceans and be featured at QuikSCience events and on the web! The USC Wrigley Institute and Quiksilver, Inc. have created an exciting new activity in science education. The Music Challenge seeks young people to compose ocean-inspired music for the QuikSCience Challenge. Help us promote ocean understanding and appreciation through music!

QuikSCience Music Challenge Winners 2009

The winners were Sadie Peterson and Max Bouvrie with “Long Summer” in the best “Song with Lyrics” category from Lincoln Middle School. A very creative brother team, Alex and Isaac Romero from Curtiss Middle School, won the best “Instrumental” category with "Like Any Other Day."

Sadie Peterson and Max Bouvrie with “Long Summer”

Alex and Isaac Romero with "Like Any Other Day"

QuikSCience Music Challenge Winners 2008

2008 Winners: “What To Do” by Darrow Feldstein (pictured below) has been awarded “Best Song with Lyrics” in the 2008 QuikSCience Music Challenge! “Tsunami” by Christopher Bryant has been awarded “Best Instrumental” in the 2008 QuikSCience Music Challenge!

QuikSCience Music Challenge Winners 2007

Below are the two winners of the 2007 Music Challenge. The winners are Ryan Shore, for Best Instrumental, and Mia Costa, for Best Song with Lyrics.

Mia Costa and Ryan Shore

The QuikSCience Partnership is collaboration between USC, the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Quiksilver and the Quiksilver Foundation. It holds an annual QuikSCience Challenge competition among school children. Its mission is to improve K-12 science education in America by using children's love of the ocean to make science more approachable.