Hi to all

Here are the details of the 2012 NZYPT competition.

The regional tournaments are planned for Saturday 17th March 2012
With the national tournament to be held on Saturday 31st March 2012.
No final decisions have been made for the venues for the regional tournaments in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch yet.

The national final is planned to be in Wellington (if a suitable venue can be found).

The 7 problems for the NZYPT competition are attached to this email.
Students should be encouraged to start on their solutions from this point in time.

Full details should be on our website soon but as schools/teachers who have participated in the past I wanted to let you know about the details now.
Please feel free to forward this email to other schools in your region and encourage them to enter.

I hope, after the difficulties of last year, that we can make this the best NZYPT to date with large team entries in each region.

Cost of entry per team is the same as last year at :
$90 for an early-bird entry if forms and payment are submitted by 1st December 2011
Or
$180 if teams enter after this date up until 29th February 2012.

The international competition IYPT is to be held in Germany this year and I want to send a strong New Zealand team of 5 to represent us after missing out in the Iranian event - in 2011.

Regards
Gavin

Gavin Jennings
Chair IYPTNZ.