German Young Physicists' Tournament
The German Young Physicists' Tournament ( GYPT ) is a nationwide physics competition in which teams compete against each other and present their solutions to given physical problems in English. Then your own solution and processing must be defended against an opposing team in a time-limited discussion.
The GYPT is the national descendant of the International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT),
A winning team is chosen at the annual national competition. Independently of this, ten workshop participants will be identified, from which five participants will be selected in a further workshop round, who will represent Germany as a team at the IYPT. In the run-up to the tournament, the students receive care and support at one of the Germany-wide GYPT centers.
organization
The GYPT has been held annually in Germany since 2014 . At the beginning, the GYPT was largely organized by the South Württemberg Student Research Center . The University of Ulm , the German Physical Society and the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation are now the sponsors and organizers .
The tournament
Compared to the IYPT, the process and duration are significantly reduced. The report and the opposition were taken over from the international physics fight . As with the IYPT, the participants are awarded points by a multi-member jury consisting of scientists, teachers, students and former participants. The GYPT usually takes place on a weekend, while the fights take place on Saturday and the finals on Sundays. The three best teams (points of the individual participants averaged with the crossed result) compete against each other in the final for the title of German Physics Master . Separately from the team competition, the ten best participants will be determined and invited to a workshop. There, under the guidance of selected supervisors, new projects are worked on and the students are tested for physical knowledge, teamwork and communication skills. The best five then go to the IYPT, while the others get the chance to participate in the Austrian Young Physicists' Tournament (AYPT). This tournament was won when it first participated in 2015. This title was defended in the following year. The complete set of rules and a detailed description of the process can be found on the website.
history
In 2014 the tournament took place at the Student Research Center North Hesse in Kassel and in 2015 at the Josef-Effner-Gymnasium Dachau . The final and workshop participants were allowed to visit CERN in January 2016 as a prize . The 3rd GYPT 2016 at the Physics Center Bad Honnef was the largest of its kind with 86 participants.
In 2017 and 2018, the registration records were broken again, so that a preliminary decision in regional competitions and an online competition selection were introduced for the 2017 competition for the first time, both of which have been in existence since then. The teams must first qualify for the national competition round at regional level.
Tasks
The 17 problems are the internationally defined tasks of the IYPT. For the GYPT, each participant chooses one of these problems, which he will present at the tournament. Two teams of three compete against each other at random for each discussion. Therefore, it will not be announced until the evening before the tournament which team will oppose which problem and which opposing group.
Teams
The students usually form teams of two or three people beforehand, but individual participants who are assigned to incomplete teams are also accepted. The age of the participants is between 15 and 18 years due to the complex problems and the presentation in English. However, there are regular participants who successfully take part in the competition much younger. Since the 2018 competition, there has been a minimum age of 14 years.
The number of teams applying is steadily increasing.
Web links
See also
- Austrian Young Physicists' Tournament (similar competition in Austria)
Individual evidence
- ^ Official website of the German Young Physicists' Tournament
- ↑ Official Facebook presence of the German Young Physicists' Tournament
- ↑ Official link of the IYPT to the problems
- ↑ GYPT Centers
- ↑ GYPT website of the DPG
- ↑ Official press release GYPT Finale 2015 ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release on Germany's victory at the AYPT ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press releases on the AYPT victory 2016
- ↑ Official rules of the GYPT
- ↑ of the Josef-Effner-Gymnasium Dachau on the GYPT 2015 ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Report on the homepage of the German Physical Society
- ↑ Press release of the German Physical Society
- ^ Rainer Reichle: Ulm SFZ students win the Austrian Physics Championships. Robert Bosch Gymnasium Langenau, May 2015, archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on July 31, 2016 .
