I was sitting right here in the office of the Administrative Assistants at Mediazone when the Acting Head said: Did you see the poster? Are you going?
I just looked at him and I shook my head. “You’re going”, he said flatly, smiling. That’s how I got myself in Famelab. The deadline had already been extended so I took some time to think what my subject would be before I sent in my application.
Once I applied, I began thinking of ideas. I could hear the gears in my brain grinding , sparks firing up. I had to decide. I had to put my creativity in a presentable structure limited to three minutes. Three minutes! They last forever on the stage but pass by so quickly in front of you on the countdown timer. 30 seconds left! You gotta wrap it up! Don’t stop now… “seeing what’s essential that’s invisible to the eyes, just as the Little Prince learned from the Fox, in the colours of the rainbow while embracing the sun’s radiance all the way down to the deep ocean’s midnight zone where the sea devil of the female angler fish lures you close enough and the male falls a victim to her… sublime aroma and becomes… a parasitical pair of testis attached to her body.”
Time’s up! And you’re left with the tremor in your knees and a satisfactory smile on your lips. All the support received by friends and colleagues here at the University of Nicosia, all the sleepless hours of writing and rehearsing were right there under the spotlights.
If I hadn’t been pushed, I wouldn’t have have gone to the preliminaries and wouldn’t have ended up garnishing 2nd place.
It was a unique experience: I got to meet other scientists and science aficionados, with which some of them I’ve kept in touch with.
Famelab is more than just a competition. Famelab is a culture in progress, a culture of science.
Watch the full videos of both preliminaties and final right here! The preliminaries produced by Mediazone right here at the University and the finals produced at CYBC.
Preliminaries:
Final:
Lucia Protopapa – Mediazone Administrative assistant / Bachelors of Science, Human Biology – Overall Science enthusiast!!
