Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S Winner: Jabari Johnson
B.A.T.T.L.E.S. (Bringing Attention to Transforming, Teaching and
Learning Science) was conceived as a way to keep students engaged in
school and in science. The contest is the brainchild of GZA, Christopher
Emdin, Assistant Professor of Science Education at Teachers College;
and Rap Genius, which runs rapgenius.com, a website where rap is posted,
critiqued as poetry and annotated. GZA and Jeremy Dean of Rap Genius
were among the six judges who watched as teens ages 14 to 20 strode the
stage at TC's Joyce B. Cowin Conference Center and "spat" lyrics that
ran a gamut of topics from rock science, natural selection and genetics
to how materials freeze or melt. The raps were judged on the quality of
their scientific content as well as their lyricism and beat
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