Current Activities at Utah FORGEAs part of the Energy & Geoscience Institute's Spring Webinar...
Create a music video parody of a popular song by writing your own lyrics that talk about geothermal energy, choosing a topic from the list below. This is a statewide contest and the winning team will be awarded a prize in the spring of 2024. Team submissions will be judged based on creativity, performance, and lyrics.
Contest Details
READ CAREFULLY: entries will be disqualified if any of the rules are not followed
- 7th-12th graders living in Utah, are eligible to participate
- 1-4 people may collaborate in each group
- Lyrics must clearly reflect team’s understanding of one, or more, of the geothermal topics below
- Each entry must provide lyrics (written into the video itself or as a separate file attachment) and give credit the original song + the artist
- Song parodies must include a title, names of all the group members and school name
- Videos must be 3 1/2 minutes or less
- Must submit a signed parental/guardian permission-to-use form, download link below
- No profanity
- Submission deadline is APRIL 15, 2024
The parodies must address one or more of the following topics:
- What is geothermal energy?
- Where does geothermal energy come from?
- How is geothermal energy harnessed?
- What is geothermal energy used for?
- Why we should use geothermal energy?
- Why is geothermal energy important?
The lyrics must also include some of the following words:
- Geothermal
- Renewable Energy
- Clean Energy
- Green Energy
- Harnessing Energy
- Geothermal – Resource
- Heat or Earth Heat
- Temperature
- Thermal
- “Heat beneath our feet”
- Subsurface
- Convection/Conduction
- Inexhaustible
- Electricity Generation
- Environment/Environmental
- Available 24/7 or ’round the clock
- Conventional Geothermal Systems
- Hydrothermal Systems/Resources
Grand Prize winners will be announced soon. Stay tuned!!!
Examples of song parodies