Physics Across the World Poster Competition Results!
A big thank you to all those students and their teachers who entered our Science Across the World competition to mark Einstein Year and the World Year of Physics 2005.
We had an overwhelming response, many of very high quality, with nearly 2000 entries from 34 different worldwide countries ranging from Algeria, Croatia, Iran, Mexico, Romania, Singapore, UK to the USA. Winners were selected by members of the European Physical Society’s Executive Committee at their General Meeting in Bern, Switzerland. All shortlisted posters were on display in the exhibition hall throughout the conference.
Below are the winners and runners up in both age categories 8 – 12 and 13 – 16 years.
Age 8 – 12 Category
First Prize Second Prize
(DSC-P120 CyberShot 5MP Digital Camera) (Credit Card Digital Camera)Nikita Herfet-Jones Age 10 Sophie Jewsbury Age 10
Park School, Bournemouth, UK Little Chalfont Primary School, UK
Runners Up (Highly Commended)
L'Espion Mini Digital Cameras
Anjali Chandrashekar Age 11
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, India
Boaz van de Vegte Age 10
Park School, Bournemouth, UK
Ng Alvina Jane Age 11
Simply Art, Hong Kong, China
Age 13 – 16 Category
First Prize x 1 First Prize x 2
(DSC-P120 CyberShot 5MP Digital Camera) (DSC-P120 CyberShot 5MP Digital Camera)
Stephanie Dorothy Yu Age 15 Asma Mimouni Age 15
Diocesan Girls’ School, Hong Kong Sirius Astronomy Association, Algeria
Second Prize x 1 (Credit Card Digital Camera) Second Prize x 2 (Credit Card Digital Camera)
Liu Xinyi Age 15 Elizabeth Elaine Au Age 13
Nanyang Girls’ High School, Singapore Simply Art, Hong Kong, China
Runners Up (Highly Commended)
L'Espion Mini Digital Cameras
Stjepan Nimac Age 13
Osnova Skola Cucerje, Croatia
Jessye Bloomfield Age 13
Ibstock Place School, UK
Ruth Dunn Age 15
Madras College, Fife, UK
Tock Jing Mi Age 15
SMK Convent, Malaysia
Ko Wing Ki Age 14
Simply Art, Hong Kong, China
Eunice Leung Wing Yu Age 15
Simply Art, Hong Kong, China
Lim Li Vern Age 15
SMK Convent, Malaysia
Lyal Moskovitch Age 13
Greengates School, Mexico
Commended Entries were also received from the following students:
Fernanda Contento Gomes, Age 10, Brazil
Ozge Diraman, Age 11, Turkey
Hoda Zokaie, Age 13, Iran
Rachel Isted, Age 14, UK
Chiew Chieng Hwee Joanne, Age 15, Singapore
Chiela Ann Maye. C.Solis, Age 14, Philippines
Took Jing Mi, Age 16, Malaysia
Dong Mingyi, Age 16, Singapore
Lee Huey Soo, Age 15, Malaysia
Stephany Shiu, Age 14, Hong Kong
All winning and commended students will receive Certificates of Participation.
The winning teachers with the most quality entries are:
Primary teacher winner – (DSC-P120 CyberShot 5MP Digital Camera & IOP Membership)
Teacher - Ozen Aytacoglu
Mersin Ozel Akdeniz Palmiye Okullari, Turkey
Secondary teacher winner – (DSC-P120 CyberShot 5MP Digital Camera & IOP Membership)
Teacher – Ang Wee Ling
Nanyang Girls High School, Singapore
Runners Up – IOP Memberships
Teacher - Indrani Amarasingam
SMK Convent, Malaysia
Teacher – Gary Worthington
Greengates School, Mexico
Teachers - Hoo Cheong Lau & Chui Fan Lee
Simply Art, Hong Kong, China
Teacher – Mrs Heini Thomas
Ysgol Gynradd Dihewyd, Wales, UK
Teachers – Eugenia Ogar & Daniela Sabay
Scoala Geh. Nr 6 “Ahisoara Odeahu”, Romania
Teachers – Mrs Malek, Mrs Deljoo & Mrs Seyed Ahmadian
Roshanger School, Tehran, Iran
All camera prizes were kindly donated by the European Physical Society and annual memberships by the Institute of Physics. We are grateful to Dr. Peter Kalmus, Queen Mary College (University of London) and the Institute of Physics for help in designing, judging and promoting this competition.
|
