Sound Sculpting Competition 2025

Event Date: 07 Mar 2025

Published On: 16 Feb 2025

Organizer: The Accessibility Research Centre (ARC) at IIT Madras in collaboration with Tamilnadu Science and Technology Centre (TNSTC)

About the Competition

Who can participate? IIT Madras Students and School Students from Classes 6-11 (in teams of 3-5)
Event Date: 7 March 2025
Venue: Periyar Science & Technology Centre, Chennai

Prizes:

Science Innovation Award – ₹50,000 for the winning school
Runner-up Prize – ₹20,000
Exciting goodies for all participants
Register & submit entries by 25 Feb 2025

All shortlisted team members will get registration kit, lunch and free access to the Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre, Chennai during the event.

Sound sculpting is the art of representing realities, objects, and experiences through sound. Due to their natural instinct for connecting with sounds, children enjoy deploying them in accessing science.

Details of the Competition

Students from classes 6 - 11 are encouraged to come up with innovative science projects using sound. The projects can include the use of musical instruments, nature sounds, everyday objects around us to recreate or explain scientific concepts and phenomenon. Each team can have 3 -5 participants. Each school can send up to 5 entries.

The school children are requested to send audio files of their sound sculpting submissions of 2-5 minutes duration. This should include a detailed description of the project through audio narrations in their own voices and in any language of their choice.

The teams should not copy digital sounds from the internet or any other secondary source. We discourage the students from using AI generated sounds.

Your audio submissions must have two components.