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You might have noticed these creeping in over the last few days, but: they’re back! It’s a slightly different set of photos to before, so if you’re missing one you particularly wanted please drop us a line.

Good places to start are the Ceremony and Reception sets, or just dive in to the full album. As before, if you click through to individual photos you’ll find an ‘all sizes’ button that allows you to download large versions for printing.

We took the photos down, by the way, because we’d casually given everyone at the event a name badge. Since we’ve spent the last two years trying very hard to avoid publishing likeness, name and school for individual children, this wasn’t the brightest thing we’ve done. This new set of photos, then, has names painted out (some more neatly than others, I’m sorry to say), and next year the badges will be first names only.

Live and learn, eh?

We’ve posted loads — and we really do mean loads — of photos from last Friday’s awards to the SciCast Flickr account.

If you click through to the individual photos you’ll find an ‘All sizes’ button, which allows you to download a really gigantic version of each photo, suitable for printing.

We’ll work our way through and caption the photos as best we can, but you can help us by leaving comments. In particular, do let us know if we’ve labelled anything incorrectly, and we’ll get it sorted.

(These photos are all by Laura Mtungwazi, who worked her socks off and did a great job.)

[UPDATE Saturday 3/5/2008: we’ve taken the gallery down temporarily while we sort some details. The photos will be back as soon as we can manage.]

[UPDATE 2 Thursday 8/5/2008: The photos are back up again - see this post for details.]

Media from last Friday’s Awards event is starting to come through: Coseley.TV, nominated in the ‘Best Unpublishable Film’ category, have put together a terrific film about their trip to London. It includes a taste of the ceremony, an interview with their local radio station, and even a little sightseeing.

Excellent!

Friday’s SciCast Awards event made the news bulletins on Irish broadcaster RTÉ last Friday - story here. Scroll down for a link to the clip, which requires Real Player.

The team from St. Joseph’s College in Lucan, County Dublin, flew over for the event and to celebrate their nomination in the Physics category with ‘Central Locking’. They were pipped to the trophy, but seemed to be having a blast when I caught up with them afterwards.

Thanks to the IoP in Ireland for pointing us to the story online; we look forward to a deluge of entries for 2009!

On 6th December, Richmond schools clubbed together in Twickenham for a distinctly glamorous evening to celebrate short science films they’d made, and to present awards to the best. And when we say ‘glamorous,’ we mean the whole thing — red carpet, posh frocks, dinner jackets, the Mayor, and Sir David Attenborough. Yes, you read that right. Sir David presented the awards, and chatted to the students who’d made the films.

The evening was part of Richmond’s ‘Scientific Edge’ project, a broader initiative to increase engagement in science education. The film-making part was set up by Andrew Hanson, outreach manager at the National Physical Laboratory, and — you’ve guessed it — was based on the model established by SciCast.

Nine schools took part, making I think twenty-five films, ranging from noble first efforts to spectacularly slick extravaganzas. We’ll hopefully bring you most if not all of them on SciCast, but in the meantime here are some stills from the evening. It was a wonderful night, with tremendous enthusiasm and excitement, and the council are already making plans for next year.

And for the record: we’re absolutely delighted to see SciCast used in this sort of way, and would love to see Richmond’s model repeated around the country. Expect more on this later.