Survival of the Fittest Laura Alsum

In Survival of the Fittest, twelve-year-old Charlie just wants to play baseball and be a star athlete, but when he is sidelined due to his progressive neuromuscular disease, he must prove to his school that he still belongs by winning the last competition of the year—the science fair.

Survival of the Fittest received the $50,000 TFI Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize in February 2014.

CREDITS

Writer: Laura Alsum

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

 Biology

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Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.