Video Creation and Submission - Asia-Pacific 3MT Competition
Registered universities participating in the 2021 Virtual Asia-Pacific 3MT Competition are required to follow the guidelines for video creation and submission - updated 2021 guildelines coming soon!
Examples of the video recordings are below:
All participating universities are required to email 3MT with the following information by the 17 September - Virtual Asia-Pacific 3MT Video Submission Deadline. Please feel free to email this information to 3MT earlier if you can.
Video Creation and Submission - University Level Competition
In order to take part in a virtual 3MT competition each participating institution will hold its own internal 3MT competition to select a winner (live or virtual). The key requirement for each university winner/entry into the Asia-Pacific 3MT will be that students must pre-record their presentation for consideration by the judges. This will ensure participants are not disadvantaged due to technical issues during a presentation. Institutions are free to decide the format of their local competition (live or virtual), within the rules set by The University of Queensland - an example structure of a simple virtual competition is outlined below. We have also put together a number of resources to help you with your planning for a virtual event.
- Competitors record and edit their 3MT presentations (using any available recording or mobile device) and upload to a Vimeo account (competitors to set up a personal Vimeo account) and provide the presentation link to their university 3MT Event Corodinator for consideration in their university 3MT competition (School/Faculty/University).
- Universities to upload competitors 3MT video to their univeristy website (or similar) for audience viewing.
- Universities to email 3MT video links and 3MT PowerPoint presentations to judging panel.
- Judging panel review all videos (mark using 3MT scoring sheets) and conduct a Zoom meeting to discuss judging and final placement of winners – Winner / Runner-up.
- People’s Choice element (you could consider using Facebook/Vimeo likes or a Survey Monkey poll)
- Winners announced online during a webinar or online via newsletter/social media.
Please note: Ensure you instruct the judging panel that they must not judge the presentation based on the video/recording quality or editing capabilities (optional inclusions). Judging should focus on the presentation, ability to communicate research to a non-specialist audience, and 3MT PowerPoint slide.