On April the 23th took place the Award Cerimony for the contest “Physics Got Talent”. The contest was adressed to young students attending high school in Naples. They had to send a video (max 7 minutes) in which they describe an experiment performed by themselves explaining what they do, what they use and what are the conclusions of their work. The video were download on the facebook page and youtube channel created to increase interest for the event.
We assigned three prizes: two of them chosen by the jury, called the first and second “technical winner”; and another prize for the top rated video on the web (like for Facebook and YouTube) called “popular prize”. The online vote received more 1000 like on the page .
Prizes consisted of didactic sets for the schools. The sets are composed by compasses, electrical circuits, lasers, optical lenses, pendulum, slinky, stopwatches etc.
About 100 students, belonging to the schools who joined the contest, took part to the event.
During the ceremony the videos made by the participants were shown and the students themselves explained better how they performed the experiment, how they built the setup and the reasons who motivated them to join the contest.
These latter short interviews underlined the importance to stimulate curiosity and passion about physics among the younger generation of students. In addition it was an opportunity for students to visit the physics department and know more about young minds project.
The winner was invited to perform their experiment to the event “Passione Fisica” .
Here we report the winners :
Technical prizes:
- Liceo Cuoco , “Costruzione di un motore elettrico”(“How to made an eletric motor”)
- Liceo Calamandrei , “Termogiocando” (“Playing with termodinamic”)
Popular prize:
Liceo Suor Orsola Benincasa, “Legge di Stevin” (“Stevin’s Law”)
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