Hosted by OSOS , contributed by baneva on 31 May 2018
Logo of the Tournamnt
This project is developed to inspire interest in students in physics and natural scienes as a whole and to contribute to the implementation of inquiry based learning in school educational process. Every year the International Committee of the International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT) publishes 17 research problems from the field of physics for students to work on them and prepare for applying and participating in the tournament. IYPT is a unique secondary school pupils’ competition that mimics the real-life scientific research as close as possible. The research themes (problems) are known well in advance and the teams have a lot of time to work on them. This is not a paper-and-pen competition but is organized in a form of scientific discussions where the participants form each team take the role of: Reporter, Oponent and Reviewer. The Reporter presents the research work done on a selected theme including the experiments, analysis and understanding the phenomena, the conclusions drawn. The Opponent makes a critical analysis of the presented research and discusses with the Reporter on the week points and unclarified aspects in it. The Reviewer is doing an assessment of the Reporter's research and the Oponent's critics and presents its opiion on the questions in the debate. (More information can be found at the official website: www.iypt.org)
The specifics of the Young Physicists' Tournament & Workshop (YPT&W) in April 2018 in Sofia was that this Tournament was organized with a Workshop. The aim of this activity is to introduce to the teachers and team leaders the essence of the YPT, to offer a platform for discussions, exchange of ideas and expertise and debate of the assessment criteria. It contributes to increasing the students' interest in this competition and the science based learning approach, to motivating teachers to work with students on the research themes of the Tournament and prepare teams for participation. It contributes to helping students to gain expertize and and have better achievements at the International Young Physisists Tournament, to take place this year in China.