{"id":"vis-science-fair-poster-art","audience":"teachers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"constraints","title":"Get poster art for the science fair with only two lines of text","free":false,"task":"You're making the science fair poster. You'll generate the art with ChatGPT and add the details in Canva later. Get Claude to write one paste-ready image prompt, plain text, under 110 words. It must say vertical 2:3, leave the bottom third empty for the details, allow only the text \"SCIENCE FAIR\" and \"MARCH 14\", and say original characters only: no movie or cartoon characters and no real students.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Notes for the poster (Ms. Okafor, 6th grade science)\n\nEvent: Lakeview Middle School Science Fair\nDate: Saturday, March 14 (moved from March 7 because of the band trip)\nTime: 10am to 1pm, judging starts 10:30\nPlace: the gym, doors on the east side\nWho: all 6th to 8th graders, families welcome\nRules: tri-fold boards only, no open flames, no live animals, bring your own extension cord\n\nLook we want: bright and fun, a little cartoony. Beakers bubbling, a small rocket, a magnifying glass, a plant sprouting, maybe a volcano.\n\nStudent council vote: most kids voted to put the famous robot from that big animated movie on the poster. Second place was a photo collage of last year's winners (we have the photos).\n\nColors: school colors are royal blue and gold.\n\nIt'll be printed on 11x17 paper for the hallways and shown on the cafeteria screen.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Cramming the details in","why":"The AI puts the time, place and rules into the image, and image tools misspell small text.","fix":"Add: \"The only text is SCIENCE FAIR and MARCH 14.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"No space for the details","why":"The AI fills the whole poster, leaving nowhere to add the time and place in Canva.","fix":"Add: \"Vertical 2:3. Leave the bottom third empty.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Following the student vote","why":"The AI uses the famous movie robot or the students' photos, which you can't put on a poster.","fix":"Add: \"Original characters only. No movie or cartoon characters, no real students.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Getting a lesson on poster design","why":"The AI writes headings, bold text and tips.","fix":"Add: \"Output only the prompt, plain text, no notes.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"The AI lists every idea from the notes.","fix":"Add: \"about 60 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets the shape","patterns":["2\\s*:\\s*3","vertical|portrait"]},{"label":"Leaves room for details","patterns":["bottom third","empty","blank"]},{"label":"Limits the text","patterns":["only (text|words)","SCIENCE FAIR"]},{"label":"Rules out characters","patterns":["original","no (movie|cartoon|famous|copyright|trademark)"]},{"label":"Keeps it to the prompt","patterns":["only the prompt","no (intro|notes)"]}],"hint":"Image tools are bad at small text and can't use famous characters. Decide the two lines that go in the art, leave space for the rest, and say what kind of characters are allowed.","rubricLabels":["States vertical 2:3 and leaves the bottom third of the image empty for details added later","The only text it asks for is 'SCIENCE FAIR' and 'MARCH 14' (no times, place, rules, school name, or the old March 7 date)","Says to use original characters only: no movie or cartoon characters (no famous robot) and no real students or photos"]}