Undergraduate Researcher Joshua Baxter came first in the Photonics North 3 minute talk challenge. Joshua’s talk, Testing the Angle Independence of Metal Colouration presented his work done on investigating angle independent metal colouration on periodic metal colour surfaces via FDTD. The monetary challenge was aimed at people presenting posters at the conference. Thanks to Prof. Lora Ramunno and Dr. Antonio Calà Lesina for help on the talk.