Problems for IYPT New Zealand 2009 Now Available
The seven problems for IYPT New Zealand 2009 are now available. Click on Problems (2009).
Regional tournaments for IYPT New Zealand will be held in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on Saturday 7th March 2009. The top two teams from each regional tournament will then proceed to the National Final to be held in Auckland on Saturday 21st March. For programme details see 2009 Tournament Details.
The team that wins the National Final plus the best five other students form the New Zealand squad from which the team to travel to China will be selected. See Team Selection for more details.
The deadline for entries is Wednesday 11th February, 2009 and must be accompanied by an entry fee of $100 per team.
New Zealand Team Wins Silver Medal in Croatia
The New Zealand team of Ben Paterson (King’s College), Graeme Finnie (Onslow College), Donald White (Pakuranga College), Jed Bian (Auckland Grammar School) and Yang Gao (Auckland Grammar School) have recently returned from Croatia with silver medals won at the 21st International Young Physicists’ Tournament. This is the second year in a row that the New Zealand team have come away from the tournament with silver medals and we are the only team to make it to the finals in both years.
After the first round of competition New Zealand lay in 8th place and by the end of the fourth round we were in 5th place. In the fifth and last round the team performed outstandingly, scoring the best score of any of the teams over the five rounds. We leapfrogged Croatia, Austria and Korea to end in 2nd place. This took the team to the final with Germany and Croatia. Here the teamed performed well but was not able to topple Germany who took the gold medal. Croatia and New Zealand, as the other two finalists, were both awarded silver medals.
IYPT New Zealand acknowledges the generous support of the following organisations:
King’s College
Woolf Fisher Trust
Royal Society of New Zealand
University of Auckland
