International Young Physicists' Tournament | iypt physics
FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaScientificcompetitionTheInternationalYoungPhysicistsTournament(IYPT)[1],sometimesreferredtoasthe“PhysicsWorldCup”,isascientificcompetitionbetweenteamsofsecondaryschoolstudents.Itmimics,ascloseaspossible,thereal-worldscientificresearchandtheprocessofpresentinganddefendingtheresultsobtained.Participantshavealmostayeartoworkon17open-endedinquiryproblemsthatarepublishedyearlyinlateJuly.Agoodpartoftheproblemsinvolveseasy-to-reproducephenomenapresentingunexpectedbe...
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Scientific competition
The International Young Physicists Tournament (IYPT)[1], sometimes referred to as the “Physics World Cup”, is a scientific competition between teams of secondary school students. It mimics, as close as possible, the real-world scientific research and the process of presenting and defending the results obtained.
Participants have almost a year to work on 17 open-ended inquiry problems that are published yearly in late July. A good part of the problems involves easy-to-reproduce phenomena presenting unexpected behaviour. The aim of the solutions is not to calculate or reach “the correct answer” as there is no such notion here. The Tournament is rather conclusions-oriented as participants have to design and perform experiments, and to draw conclusions argued from the experiments’ outcome.
The competition itself is not a pen-and-paper competition but an enactment of a scientific...