2009 NESTA Famelab showreels now online!

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Nesta FameLab is our exhilarating national competition to find new voices of science and engineering.

The showreels of all the NESTA FameLab 2009 finalists are now available to view on our YouTube Channel youtube.com/famelab. Here you can watch our ten fabulous finalists in action with clips of their regional auditions, their presentations in the UK final and interviews giving the story of their journey through the competition. If you want to find out more about the FameLabbers or contact them then visit the Hall of FameLab.

Whilst you’re enjoying yourself on the NESTA FameLab YouTube channel you can also watch footage from this year’s regional heats and UK final, Tom Whyntie’s winning presentation, 2009’s video auditions and all the videos from previous years of the competition.

And don’t forget to keep an eye on famelab.org for news of future FameLab competitions.

We’ve tagged this post with Famelab, science, video on Tuesday 1 September 2009.

NESTA FameLab 2009 — results of the UK Final

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1st place: Tom Whyntie

At 4:30 PM 5th June, the 10 NESTA FameLab finalists took to the stage in front of a huge audience and judges Kathy Sykes, Mark Lythgoe, Leanne Klein and Mark Henderson in the Main Arena at the Cheltenham Science Festival. In the two hours that followed, the audience were treated to a range of captivating, fascinating and humorous talks that took them from malaria to autism, hip replacements to pheromones via a spot of quantum physics, and, for the first time in the history of FameLab, a three minute rhyming poem about bacteria and food poisoning! The atmosphere was tense as the judges stepped out to make their decision and the audience votes were counted.

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We’ve tagged this post with competition, Famelab, science, winner on Wednesday 17 June 2009.

Science for the future — day 3 of the Science Festival

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It was a day of forward thinking at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival on Friday.

Being World Environment Day, it was appropriate that there were a number of events about our changing environment. Jonathon Porritt talked to Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Joan Ruddock, about whose responsibility it really is to tackle climate change.

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We’ve tagged this post with environment, Famelab, science on Sunday 7 June 2009.

NESTA FameLab grand final today — who will it be?

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2 months ago

ten finalists will be competing today 4.30–6.30pm

Who will walk away with the £10,000 prize?

We’ve tagged this post with competition, Famelab, science on Friday 5 June 2009.

NESTA FameLab — the 10 finalists

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3 months ago

The NESTA FameLab finalists have been announced! After a UK wide search, these are the ten top new science communicators:

Matthew Baker
Lewis Dartnell
Simon Foster
Georgina Humphreys
Alistair Linsell
Matt Parker
Andrew Pontzen
Zoe Schnepp
Becky West
Tom Whyntie

These 10 will be competing at the Science Festival for the top prize of £10,000 and Channel 4 television appearances: don’t miss the UK Grand Final!

Find out more about the finalists and NESTA FameLab at www.famelab.org

We’ve tagged this post with competition, Famelab, science on Wednesday 20 May 2009.

NESTA FameLab preview

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3 months ago

NESTA FameLab is an exciting national competition to find and support talented scientists who can share their enthusiasm and knowledge with the public in an innovative and entertaining way. Don’t miss the UK Grand Final at the Science Festival: who will the judges choose? Who will YOU choose?

The regional heats:

Manchester

Bristol

London / Oxford

Watch this space: the finalists will be announced very soon! Who will walk away with £10,000? Join the UK’s top ten new science presenters as they compete for the NESTA FameLab title in the FameLab Grand Final.

Find out more about NESTA FameLab at famelab.org

We’ve tagged this post with competition, Famelab, science, video on Friday 15 May 2009.

NESTA FameLab 2009 launched

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We are excited to announce that after three hugely successful competitions in 2005, 2006 & 2007 NESTA FameLab is back for 2009! The competition opens today with the launching of our new website — famelab.org.

FameLab is a competition to find the country’s best communicators actively working in science. We are looking for scientists, mathematicians and engineers with a passion for their subject and the talent to communicate it to the public.

FameLab is offering a huge prize pool of £10,000 for the winner and £5,000 for the runner up! Finalists also receive professional training in communication and opportunities to launch their science communication careers. Full details on how to enter the competition and entry criteria are on our website.

If you want to see the FameLab contestants in action and sample the best in new science communication then visit our website to find out where your nearest Regional Final is and make sure that you don’t miss the UK and International FameLab Finals at the Cheltenham Science Festival.

We’ve tagged this post with competition, Famelab, science on Tuesday 3 March 2009.

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