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The audience will just become confused or bored. Be exuberant and excited about your work. The audience of finalists broke into five groups and spread out to different corners of the room, where they gave their elevator pitches about their projects. The editors and staff writers — including Bethany Brookshire, science education writer, Thomas Sumner, earth sciences writer, and Beth Quill, Enterprise Editor — provided instant feedback while they listened.

Eva and Janet offered advice like slowing down and making eye contact. If the finalists are talking about an abstract topic, they should find a way to make it more concrete, through metaphor or specific details. Eva shared a real-life example of what can happen when science is communicated poorly to the public.

She mentioned vaccine coverage and the subsequent vaccine phobia that erupted. The organization launched its flagship publication in as Science News-Letter. The publication, which was redesigned as a magazine in , quickly grew into a prime source of science news for libraries, schools and individuals. Renamed Science News in , this award-winning magazine now attracts millions of readers annually to its daily online and biweekly print publications. Science News for Students formerly Science News for Kids publishes award-winning journalism on research across the breadth of science, health and technology fields.

It aims to bring these new developments to a younger audience. Published daily, Science News for Students posts both shorter news stories and longer features, all written with a vocabulary and sentence structure aimed at readers 9 to 14 years old. The breadth of technical subjects and tone attracts many advanced readers as well. Our stories highlight ongoing research in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology. Science News for Students does not publish original scientific results.

Stories are reported by experienced science journalists, many with PhDs in the fields on which they write. To help teachers, parents and other educators, each story includes further readings, citations to the original research on which the stories are based, power words glossary terms and a readability score that ensures the text is accessible to teens and tweens.