Can you rap science?  This is the question being posed to Irish students in a new competition organised by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre as part of Science Week 2009. Science Raps Challenge is aimed at encouraging young people to express their thoughts about science and technology through rap music.

Students of all ages are invited to participate in the event which offers great prizes including laptops and Flip video cameras. Entrants are simply required to compose and video their own Science Rap, upload on YouTube and send in the link on a completed application form.  Closing date for receipt of entries is Friday, October 23rd 2009. Information will be sent to all Irish secondary schools.

All competition details are on http://microbemagic.ucc.ie

The competition is organised by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC), University College Cork and Teagasc Moorepark, Cork and the initiative was inspired by the Large Hadron Rap which has had more than 5 million hits on YouTube. Young science rapper, Jon Chase was commissioned by the APC to compose a rap to challenge Irish students to compose and video a Rap on this year’s Science Week theme: “Celebrating Creativity and Innovation” showing how creativity and innovation contribute to science and technology.His Rap can be found on You Tube on the Pharmabiotic channel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F69N8ih9ZPw.