Communicating Physics
Competition
Downloads
Poster: CommunicatingPhysics-Poster.pdf
Flyer/leaflet:
CommunicatingPhysics-Flyer.pdf
The Competition
The Large Hadron Collider is a major project at the forefront of physics research.
• What is it?
• Why has it been built?
• What are the questions that it will answer?
To enter you should produce a piece of work describing the Large Hadron Collider to your fellow students. Entries can be as a podcast, in the form of a video or audio clip, a written article suitable for a school newspaper, a poster, or a piece of artwork.
Entries can be made by individual students or by groups of students in S3/S4 and in S5/S6. The winning student in each age group will win a prize of £100, with a prize of £150 awarded to the winning group entry in each age range. In addition, the school of the winning entrants will receive a prize.
Entries will be judged according to originality, creativity, suitability for the target audience and physics content. Originality is important -
please don’t just reproduce the Wikipedia page for “Large Hadron Collider”!
Guidelines
The competition aims to encourage students to
“communicate physics” in many different ways.
• Written assignments should be less than 2000 words, and submitted in a standard format such as Microsoft Word or PDF.
• Video or audio clips should be less than 5 minutes in duration, and submitted as a standard (recognisable) file such as AVI or MPEG.
• Posters and artwork should be no larger than A1 size.
Submission of entries
Entries can be submitted electronically or in hard copy format.
By email: physics@uws.ac.uk
By post: Communicating Physics Competition, School of Engineering and Science, University of the West of Scotland,
Paisley Campus, Paisley, PA1 2BE
The closing date for submissions is 30th November 2008.
For more details about the competition, contact the Academic Director for Physics, Dr Judith Steven-Setchell.
Dr. Steven-Setchell can be contacted by email to Judith.Setchell@uws.ac.uk,
by telephone on 0141 848 3630 or by fax on 0141 848 3663.