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Grants and awards

[Awards]

2011	Mission:Optical, winner of the $500 prize for the OSA student chapter competition at FIO [see the video] Forces Avenir, provincial finalist for the Photonic Games Gala de la relève en or of Université Laval's Coop Zone , winner in the category Associatifs OSA Foundation Photo contest, Donor’s Choice Award winner for this photo [read the article]
2010	OSA, finalist to Feeding Young Mind Competition OSA Recruitment Contest Forces Avenir, grand finalist for the Photonic Games
2009	Excellence Award, given to two OSA Student Chapters OSA Recruitment Contest Forces Avenir, local finalist for the Photonic Games

[Grants]
Every year, we receive activity grants from SPIE and OSA, to organize various events. From now and then, we also receive grants for outreach activities:

2011	OSA Activity Grant, Khet Tournament
2010	LaserFest Outreach Grant, given by SPIE to put together a holography demonstration laboratory. SPIE Outreach Grant, for the Photonic Games OSA Foundation Outreach Grant, for the Photonic Games OSA Activity Grant, Industrial visits in Montreal
2009	SPIE Outreach Grant, for the Photonic Games OSA Foundation Outreach Grant, for the Photonic Games OSA Activity Grant, Photonics Toolkit
2008	SPIE Outreach Grant, for the Photonic Games OSA Foundation Outreach Grant, for the event called "Les filles et les sciences: un duo électrisant"

Visibility in the press

Over the last few years, the activities that we organized have often interested the media. Here is REPOL's presse review.

	Article in the student newsletter "Focal Point" Fall 2011: Cocktail with the Experts, Mission:Optical Spring 2011 Fall 2010: Photonic Games, Feeding Young Mind Summer 2010 Winter 2008
	Proceedings paper, for Optics+Photonics in San Diego Conference 7783-9, August 1st, 2010
	Article in the monthly journal SPIE Professional January 2010
	Articles in the weekly campus newspaper "Au fil des événements" October 29th, 2009 November 20th, 2008 December 4th, 2008
	Article in the weekly city newspaper "Québec Hebdo" October 29th, 2009
	Article in the Dean of Faculty's blog October 14th, 2009
	Article in the student newlsetter "Wavefront" May 2009
	Article in the daily newspaper "Le Soleil" October 20th, 2011 December 6th, 2008
	News report on the daily "RDI Junior" Show on November 27th, 2008

Videos

Here are a few videos that we created recently. These videos and a few more can be viewed on REPOL's Youtube channel.

[Demonstration of a laser and optical communications]
Video (in French) recorded during the press conference for an event called "Les 24 heures de science", at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), on May 4th, 2010.

[Video about REPOL]
This montage was realized for the OSA recruitment contest in December 2010.

[Video about REPOL]
This montage was realized for the OSA recruitment contest in December 2009.

[Video about REPOL]
This first video about REPOL was realized for the OSA recruitment contest in December 2008.