1st Hong Kong Young Physicists' Tournament

Our physics department from Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School was very excited to co-organise and witness the first-ever Hong Kong Young Physicists' Tournament (HKYPT) today after a year of planning phase with Mr TK Leong from Singapore International School. This is a competition based on the rules and problems set by the international committees (IYPT).

Each team must choose one out of the selected 17 problems, investigate experimentally and present the findings with physics concepts. The opponent team would then take the floor to discuss follow-up questions with the reporting team. It is a very unique competition format that offers opportunities of performing formal scientific research to the secondary school students.?

This year we were running it as a pilot and hopefully we would expand it to a larger scale next year. It was our honor to have Dr. Tong Shui Sing from CUHK, Dr. David Yu from HKU and Dr. Bill Yeung from EdUHK to be our jury team today.?They were particularly impressed by the team who analysed the problem of 'three-sided dice' with dynamic modeling and phase space concepts.

More information can be found on our websites HKYPT: https://bit.ly/hkypt and IYPT: https://www.iypt.org/

If any schools in Hong Kong are interested to join the HKYPT, please email me at [email protected]