On April 30, 2013, 23 teams of students gathered at Playland in order to participate in the 8th BC Brightest Minds Physics Competition. The event is a collaborative effort of the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC and of PNE. This year the students were asked to solve three physics problems related to different rides and a group of UBC volunteers have marked the problems to determine the winners. We had a very tight race to the top and the team from Point Grey Secondary School won it. The event was organized by Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin and Dr. Samson Nashon. We would like to express our thanks to Ms. Michelle Pattison from PNE, as well as to Dr. Dan Phelps and Mr. Bill Garby—retired physics teachers—who helped with the question design, and to all the volunteers from our department and from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
To see more photos from the event, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151860960778362.1073741853.643353361&type=1&l=1c6559ccbe