Physics Videos - contests
Posted Oct25-07 at 06:42 AM by robphy
Slashdot recently reported on Discover magazine's "Science in Two Minutes or Less" contest on String Theory. Brian Greene was the judge for the contest. The winner is String Ducky by Sandy Chase.
Such contests, which are based on submissions from the public, seem to have gotten more popular... probably partly due to the relative ease of producing video content with modern computers and user-friendly software, as well as the popularity of user-created content sites like YouTube.
Here are some other contests along these lines:
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David Colarusso, on his On Education blog, held a contest to award the "First Annual Phylm Prize".
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The Pirelli company is associated with the annual Pirelli INTERNETional Awards, which have some sizable cash awards. (next deadline: December 31st, 2007)
A few years ago, they held a special competition Pirelli Relativity Challenge 2005 to commemorate the centenary of Special Relativity, as part of the World Year of Physics 2005. The winning entries are here: http://www.pirelliaward.com/prc_intro.html, as we mentioned in an earlier blog entry.
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The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has its regular AAPT Physics Video Contest, which is done in conjunction with the Summer and Winter AAPT National Meetings. Here are the recent winners: http://www.aapt.org/Contests/VideoResults.cfm.
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Here's a new physics video contest by the American Physical Society (APS) to explain the physics of football: http://www.physicscentral.com/nanobowl/
"You could win the smallest trophy ever made, and $1000 of (normal sized) cash in the Physics Central Nano Bowl Video Contest" (deadline Jan 15, 2008)
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As we mentioned in an earlier blog entry, there is the annual NSF Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. (next deadline: May 31, 2008.)
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Finally, here are some entries from a contest run [annually?] by a physics class at U. Pittsburgh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAoGoDjQLi0
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If you're looking for collections of physics videos [videos of lectures, seminars, demonstrations], refer to these past blog entries
http://www.physicsforums.com/blog/20...hysics-videos/
http://www.physicsforums.com/blog/20...hysics-videos/
Such contests, which are based on submissions from the public, seem to have gotten more popular... probably partly due to the relative ease of producing video content with modern computers and user-friendly software, as well as the popularity of user-created content sites like YouTube.
Here are some other contests along these lines:
<ul>[*]
David Colarusso, on his On Education blog, held a contest to award the "First Annual Phylm Prize".
[*]
The Pirelli company is associated with the annual Pirelli INTERNETional Awards, which have some sizable cash awards. (next deadline: December 31st, 2007)
A few years ago, they held a special competition Pirelli Relativity Challenge 2005 to commemorate the centenary of Special Relativity, as part of the World Year of Physics 2005. The winning entries are here: http://www.pirelliaward.com/prc_intro.html, as we mentioned in an earlier blog entry.
</p>
[*]
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has its regular AAPT Physics Video Contest, which is done in conjunction with the Summer and Winter AAPT National Meetings. Here are the recent winners: http://www.aapt.org/Contests/VideoResults.cfm.
[*]
Here's a new physics video contest by the American Physical Society (APS) to explain the physics of football: http://www.physicscentral.com/nanobowl/
"You could win the smallest trophy ever made, and $1000 of (normal sized) cash in the Physics Central Nano Bowl Video Contest" (deadline Jan 15, 2008)
[*]
As we mentioned in an earlier blog entry, there is the annual NSF Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. (next deadline: May 31, 2008.)
[*]
Finally, here are some entries from a contest run [annually?] by a physics class at U. Pittsburgh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAoGoDjQLi0
</p></p></p></p></p>[/list]
If you're looking for collections of physics videos [videos of lectures, seminars, demonstrations], refer to these past blog entries
http://www.physicsforums.com/blog/20...hysics-videos/
http://www.physicsforums.com/blog/20...hysics-videos/
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