Competitions

Workshops at IF PAN for children and youth from the National Fund for Children Research

Workshops at IF PAN for children and youth from the National Fund for Children Research workshops for National Fund scholarship holders have a long tradition. Talented students from all over Poland have been visiting the Institute since the late 1980s. The workshops take the form of a competition, with a 5-day internship at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences as the prize. Every year, IF PAN employees prepare 6-8 research topics and qualification tasks for young physics enthusiasts. Those scholarship holders who solve them the best have the chance to work in the team that prepared the given topic. Thanks to working in small groups (2-3 people), they can learn a lot in a short time, get familiar with modern equipment, and above all, learn the methodology of research work. The workshops are summarized by a several-hour seminar during which individual groups present the results of their work. Details of the competition can be found on the National Fund for Children website.

The Young Physicists Tournament

The Young Physicists Tournament is a student competition organized by the Polish Physical Society, the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Teaching Department of Experimental Physics of the University of Wrocław. The competition is aimed at teams of high school students. More details on the competition website.

The Physical Paths Competition

The Physical Paths Competition is a student competition organized jointly by the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Świerk and the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The competition is aimed at students interested in physics in the seventh and eighth grades of primary school and high school. More details on the competition website.

Physics Competition

The first edition of the Physics Competition took place in the 1951/1952 school year and it is the oldest subject Competition in our country. It is worth mentioning that Poland was the initiator of the creation of the International Physics Competition, whose first edition took place in 1967 in Warsaw. The organizer of the Competition is the Polish Physical Society. The main committee of the Competition is located at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw. The Deputy Chairman of the Main Committee is Prof. Jan Mostowski, PhD from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. More details can be found on the Competition's website.

The report from Scientific Lectures at the IP PAS - 2023

The "First Step to Nobel Prize" competition

The "First Step to Nobel Prize" competition was an international competition for research projects in physics for high school students interested in physics. As part of this competition, students conducted their own research projects. The authors of the awarded works were invited to scientific internships at the Institute. The competition ended in the 2015/2016 school year.