Thank you to all the OSA Student Chapters that submitted an entry into the our first ever Photo and Video Contest! The 2010 contest winners are listed below.
Photo Results:
Donor's Choice First Prize
Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada Equipped with large mirrors, metallic tubes and large Fresnel lenses, the participants must control the light to move the solar car.
Donor's Choice Runner Ups
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa A student investigates the effect of a diffraction grating on a white light source.
University of Texas at Austin, USA A very happy kid working with handheld polarizers
People's Choice First Prize
People's Choice Runner Up
University of Naples "Federico II," Italy A fishing line used to explain how fiber optics work.
CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA Optics student demonstrates Snell's Law during a High School Visitation day to CREOL at UCF.
Video Contest Results
Donor's Choice First Prize
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa During the "Colorful Optics Road Trip" program (3-15 July 2010, South Africa/Namibia) the Chapter visited various schools with learners of highly diverse backgrounds. These schools were mainly in Namibia but some were in South Africa. The show presented at these schools was educational in nature and aimed to convey fundamental optics in an entertaining and interactive way.
Donor's Choice Runner Up
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Students were asked to make posters on "Light and its uses in daily life" before participating in the C.V. Raman Science Fair. During the Fair the Chapter members reviewed each poster and selected the three best posters.
People's Choice First Prize
University of Texas at Austin, USA "UT Explore" is UT's annual open house event geared for children of any age and families to explore UT and have a taste of higher education. More than 50,000 visitors were expected, with at least 400 programs hosted by various departments on the main campus. In this experiment, we microwaved a light bulb (submerged in a water bath).
