IYPT Australia

The problems for the 9th IYPT Australia Challenge to be held in 2012 have been released

The 9th IYPT Australia Challenge will be held in March 2012.

All Saints Anglican School will host the event March 16 and March 17 - Details coming soon!

The tournament is open to schools from outside Australia provided students are not entering IYPT in the same year.

The International Young Physicists Tournament was a tournament created in the USSR to foster scientific research and improved international communication in Physics. It is an annual team competition for high school physics students. Australia first entered IYPT in 1998.

The purpose of IYPT is to develop scientific thinking, research skills, communication skills and teamwork. It is a unique tournament for high school students of physics.

One purpose of IYPT Australia is to bring the benefits of the IYPT experience to Australian physics students. Australian involvement began in 1998 with a single school, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, representing Australia. This has expanded to be open to all schools in Australia.

Another purpose of IYPT Australia is to stimulate interest in engineering and science careers. The nature of the tournament promotes scientific research and problem solving stretching the participants to work on very complex problems. Successful students will hopefully see future studies in science and engineering as an attractive option.

Australia did not send an Australian Team to the 24th International Young Physicists Tournament held in July 2011 in Iran.

Full results of the last tournament entered are at: IYPT 2010 Austria