On April 19, 2024, the Final Seminar deciding the XIX edition of the Physical Paths student work competition took place at the National Center for Nuclear Research in Otwock. The organizers of the competition are the National Center for Nuclear Research and the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The competition is aimed at students from primary schools (the last two grades) and post-primary schools and is organized annually. The Institute's representatives and jury members are: Dr. Beata Brodowska, Dr. Daniel Pęcak, Prof. Tomasz Sowiński, Prof. Andrzej Wiśniewski (Chairman of the Jury). Participants submit their works and proposals for demonstrations, which are reviewed by specialists in the fields of physics to which they relate. The jury selects several of the best submissions, and their authors have the opportunity to present their work publicly at the Final Seminar of the Competition.

The competition is held in three categories:

• scientific work (29 papers were submitted, 5 were presented at the Final Seminar),

• demonstration (25 papers were submitted, 5 were presented at the Final Seminar),

• essay (57 papers were submitted, 4 were presented at the Final Seminar).

The results of this year's competition (winners, topics of awarded works) are available on the Competition's website: http://fizycznesciezki.pl/