2011 SciCast Award Winners announced!

Physics films again dominated the SciCast Awards in 2011, scoring accolades including the coveted “Best Film”.

SciCast, a film competition aimed at students and young people across the UK and Ireland, invites budding film-makers to submit short and entertaining films that explore science and engineering subjects. This year, thirteen award categories were featured, including the IOP-supported Best Physics Films. Other categories celebrated biology, chemistry, engineering, and earth science and environment films, with special awards for creative and technical achievement, demonstrations, original score, and presentation.

The Laser, made by lower sixth-former Chris Munro from St Albans School with graphics help from his younger sister Alison, scooped the Institute’s Best Physics Film (Secondary) and Best Film (Secondary). The film explains how lasers can be used to play CDs or even to shoot down a hostile alien battle fleet. The winner of the IOP Best Physics Film (Primary) was Magic Pencil… or not? from South Lake Primary School in Wokingham. The film explores refraction at interfaces between glass, water, and air.

For more information: visit SciCast to watch all the SciCast film entries, including those from previous years.
Full list and links to the winning films.

image: Julianna Photopoulos