Vicphysics offers three competitions each year.
Physics Photo Contest
The VicPhysics Teachers’ Network has established a photo competition for secondary students. The photo must be accompanied by a statement of 250 words or less describing the physics in the photo.
More details can be found here.
Physics Video Clip Contest: Not available
The VicPhysics Teachers’ Network established a video competition for secondary students a few years ago, but it is no longer conducted. Entrants submitte their video either as an email attachment or on a DVD. Videos must have been in MP4 or Quicktime format, or a format suitable for video streaming. The video could not be longer than three minutes in length.
More details can be found here.
Poster Competition
More details can be found here
Unit 2 of the VCE Physics Study Design includes an Area of Study titled ‘Practical Investigation’. Each student “develops a question to investigate, plans a course of action that attempts to answer the question, undertakes an investigation to collect data, organises and interprets the data, and reaches a conclusion in response to the question.” The student can present their findings as a poster.
To encourage students to undertake topics of some depth, to design effective experimental designs and then thoroughly analyse their data, the Vicphysics Teachers’ Network is offering up to 10 prizes for posters that exemplify quality investigations.
Lists of possible topics and templates for the design of the poster are available at this webpage on this website.
Prizes
Each prize will be a book voucher for $100. There will be a maximum of 10 prizes.
Criteria
Each prize winner must satisfy all of the following criteria:
- an innovative topic
- a comprehensive set of variables are identified
- a detailed procedure
- precise measurements across wide range of values
- a thorough data analysis
- an insight into the physical meaning of the results
- an effective communication design to the poster
For more details, sample posters and to enter, check here.