Here Are the 2015 Philadelphia Geek Awards Nominees

Photo from Philadelphia Geek Awards Facebook page

This morning, Geekadelphia and the Academy of Natural Sciences announced the nominees for their 2015 Philadelphia Geek Awards.

Now in its fifth year, the awards were established to “celebrate and honor Philadelphia’s bustling geek community.” There are 13 categories—everything from Scientist of the Year and Streaming Media Project of the Year to Visual Artist of the Year, in which Cory J. Popp is nominated for his stunning videos that pop up regularly on Ticket and other Philly Mag blogs. Other arts-focused nominees include the GroundSwell, the advocacy and community engagement branch of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance who are nominated for Geek Story of the Year for their efforts to organize a campaign to prevent budget cuts aimed at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Longwood Gardens‘ light and sound show “Nightscape” also made the list, nominated in the I.R.I (In Real Life) Project of the Year category.

The Philadelphia Geek Awards will take place at the Academy of Natural Sciences on Saturday, August 15. An opening reception begins at 6:30 p.m., and the ceremony begins at 8 p.m. in the Academy’s auditorium. Tickets go on sale on Monday, August 3rd, and can be purchased here.

For now, check out the full list of nominees below (a more detailed description of each nominee can be found here):

SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR

• Michelle Johnson (GRASP Lab at the Penn School of Medicine)
• Penn’s “Twitter Predicts Heart Disease” Team
• Peter Lloyd Jones (Associate Dean of Emergent Design + Creative Technologies in Medicine for the Sidney Kimmel Medical College)

STREAMING MEDIA PROJECT OF THE YEAR

• Out of Town Films
• Not Nearly Nerdy Enough
• Book Fight!

GEEK STORY OF THE YEAR

• Analog Watch Company’s Ant Farm Watch
• Philadelphia’s First Renaissance Faire
• GroundSwell

STARTUP OF THE YEAR

• The Monkey & the Elephant
• Scholly
• Billy Penn

I.R.L. (In Real Life) PROJECT OF THE YEAR

• Nightscape
• The White Mountains
• Ikire Jones’ Africa 2081 AD

VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• Caitlin T. McCormack
• Cory J. Popp
• Michael Norcross

GAME OF THE YEAR

• Pretense
• Soulfill
• Clusterpuck99

FEATURE-LENGTH INDIE FILM OF THE YEAR

• Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
• I Am Santa Claus
• Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere

WEB PROJECT OF THE YEAR

• Close to Good’s Lunar Sellout
• TypeDrummer by Kyle Stetz
• Open Data Philly’s Relaunch

COMIC CREATOR OF THE YEAR

• Kelly Phillips and Claire Folkman for Dirty Diamonds
• Ian Sampson
• Locust Moon Press for Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream

SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT OF THE YEAR

• The Narrator: Philadelphia Police Department
• FindMePhilly
• @Mrs_Angemi: Nicole Angemi’s Autopsy Instagram

EVENT OF THE YEAR

• Blackstar Film Festival
• J-1 Con
• City Council Candidate Convention

GEEK OF THE YEAR

• Jon Geeting
• Ather Sharif
• Alexis Jeffcoat