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Go on Assignment for National Geographic: The Engineering Exploration Challenge

This spring, you’re on assignment for National Geographic. It’s time to test your creative ingenuity and engineering smarts with a brand new, hands-on program from National Geographic—the National Geographic Kids Engineering Exploration Challenge ! Students ages 6-18 worldwide are invited to design, build, and test solutions to real-world problems that National Geographic explorers face in the field every day. Submit your solution to National Geographic by May 1, 2014 for a chance to be featured in a Google+ Hangout, and see your solution tested live on air by National Geographic Engineers !

Pick your challenge. Try one, two, or even all three!

Challenge 1: Animal-Proofing

How do you keep a camera safe from the jaws and paws of animals? Design, build, and test a camera that can withstand an attack from an animal.

Challenge 2: Eye in the Sky

How do you get a camera up high while you stay low? Design, build, and test a system that can raise a camera at least 10 feet in the air and get the camera back down safely.

Challenge 3: Wearable Power

How do you power electronics in the field? Design, build, and test a wearable way to generate 1 watt of electricity without the help of an electrical outlet.

Design, Build, and Test Your Solution

Use the engineering process to solve your selected challenge. Use the Engineering Exploration Challenge Engineering Process workbook or the Engineering Process handout .

For Educators

Whether you’re a parent, an informal educator, or a classroom teacher, this Educator Toolkit will be useful to you in guiding your students or kids through the Engineering Exploration Challenge. It includes suggested timelines and materials lists, warm-up activities, and many other tips and tricks. Download it here .

For instructions on how to submit your solution to National Geographic, visit NatGeoEd.org/NGX .

The National Geographic Kids Engineering Exploration Challenge is generously funded by Oracle.

Written by Samantha Zuhlke, National Geographic Education

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How does the national geographic assignment process work.

National Geographic magazine (NGM) assignments can take two or more years, span entire continents, and involve 40,000 or more images.

The story process is the method behind the chaos, charting the course from idea to printed page.

The first step in getting a story approved is doing a one-pager. It’s a single page straight-to-the-point write-up that (a) tells why a story is important, (b) explains what will make it unique, and (c) gives justification for National Geographic spending the resources to pursue the story at this point in time. Every pitch must meet those three criteria or it won’t even get out of the gate.

I generate some of my own story ideas (stories I pitched on amphibian decline and on the endangered Attwater’s prairie-chicken got picked up), but in most cases though, I hear of a story that is being considered and I request it. While I don’t always get what I ask for, it helps to let them know that I’m interested in a particular topic. I’ve also had stories assigned to me about which I know nothing. At that point it’s good to quickly pay attention and do as much research as possible to get up to speed quickly.

The next step is to research the topic and come up with a general list of situations to photograph, known as a coverage plan. The research phase is critically important. I’m in charge of making sure I know what I need to know before going out into the field.

On each story, I’m assigned a photo editor at the magazine. Often they help me come up with ideas and make sure they’re all worth going after.

I get lots of help from scientists and experts who know the subject I’m working with, people who live in the areas I’ll be in, and people who have worked with a subject/area previously. The photo coordinators at National Geographic are also a big help when it comes to arranging visas, hunting down phone numbers, and doing the several dozen other tasks that go along with putting story research together. They’re lifesavers.

The way I research is to read up on a topic, find out who I need to talk with to learn more, and then make phone calls. Sometimes our line is busy all day, and in the days before unlimited calling plans I’ve had more than one $1,000 phone bill. Talking to those in the know is one of the best ways to prepare.

Once the shoot list is done, I work with my editor to put together a budget for the story. When that’s approved, we nail down travel and logistics, and I’m off to shoot.

I seldom travel with the writer. I have do so on a few stories simply because it was convenient, but the writer and I have each generated our own coverage plans and we each follow them. We talk often about what we’re doing so that we don’t miss anything important. I may not photograph much of what the writer mentions in the text; NGM’s stories are designed so that the text and the pictures complement one another. Doing this—rather than repeating subjects in writing and photographs—allows readers to get more information.

Halfway through an assignment, I go in to the Geographic’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to meet with my editor and the higher-ups at the magazine to assess progress on the story. The photo editor and I put together a “halfway show” of the best pictures we’ve gotten so far. My editor and I both discuss the story’s progress with those at the meeting and they decide whether or not the story will be finished.

When the story is completed, we put together a final show—the best of the best from the whole assignment. Then the editor and others sift through these to find the images that will be published.

On an average assignment, I’ll shoot anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 images. Only a small number (anywhere from 10 to 20 depending on the story) will be published.

On some assignments, I’ll go back for the layout process. That’s when the text and pictures are assembled in final form for the magazine. After that, I help with fact-checking, writing captions (or legends, as they’re referred to at NGM), and tying up any loose ends. I know of no other magazine that so heavily involves the photographer in both the editing and layout process.

A story is usually published one year after it’s shot, and during that time I’m bound by contract to keep the details of it confidential. When the story is finally printed, it feels great to see a completed project.

I know of no other magazine besides National Geographic that works this closely with photographers, or gives them as much time in the field.

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