International Young Physicists Tournament Luxembourg

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In a nutshell....

The International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT) is a scientific competition between teams of secondary school students. It mimics real-world scientific research and the process of presenting and discussing the results obtained.

How does it work?

Participants work in teams and have almost one year to work on 17 open-ended problems. There is no single “correct solution” to the problems. Instead, the participants design and perform experiments, develop theories, draw conclusions from the outcomes, and present them at the tournament.

Get involved!

We would like to create a Luxembourg national team to participate in the IYPT 2025 in Sweden. We will meet regularly with interested high-school students from September 2024 to June 2025 to discuss and work on the problems. If you are interested in participating, or would like to find out more, please get in touch with us at info@iypt.lu .

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  • We are looking for high-school students who would like to participate regularly in working on the problems. The participants should be willing to dedicate a few hours every week to working on the problems and to participate in regular meetings with all other participants from Luxembourg.
  • From September 2024, we will hold regular meetings to discuss the physics problems with the students. Depending on the number and location of participants, these meetings can take place either at schools, on the Limpertsberg campus of the university, or remotely via Teams.
  • In addition to these regular meetings, where all participants from Luxembourg take part, schools are encouraged to offer meetings among the participants of a given school, e.g., in the form of Physics Clubs.
  • The physics problems for the IYPT 2025 have been published in August 2024. There are 17 problems, demanding both experimental work (setting up experiments, optimizing them, and gathering data) and theoretical work (literature research, performing calculations or computer simulations). The problems can be found here .
  • Students do not need to work on all 17 problems. Depending on the number of participants, students can volunteer for those problems which they find most interesting, and we will try to distribute the problems among the students. All students working on the same problem should collaborate, and we will discuss their progress at regular meetings.
  • In the end, only five students will form the Luxembourgish national team at the International Young Physicists Tournament. The final selection among the participating students will be done based on regular participation, active contribution to the solution of the problems, and the presentation skills. All participating students, even those who do not make it to the national team, will be rewarded with a certificate of participation.
  • The language of the IYPT is English, and all members of the national team will have to present their solutions and discuss the solutions with the opposing teams in English. We will practice this by encouraging students to present their results in English during our regular meetings.