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During the IOC meeting after the IYPT, IYPT Sweden presented a bid to host the IYPT final in 2025. An IYPT final will attract around 30 teams of 5 and two team leaders, will last for 7 days and include a number of cultural activities and outings.

The plan is that the event will be run in early July in Malmö with Malmö Borgarskola as the host for fights and for participants to stay in hotels (most likely Scandic). Our budget is approximately 2.7 million SEK and we have already got a promise of Silver Sponsorship from Jane Street. Big thanks to them!

The bid was accepted by the IYPT given that we can show more promises of funding by the IYPT’s EC meeting in November. If you know of or would like to help out with fundraising, then please get in touch with me (Sam). Any promises are of interest, even if a few larger donors are more interesting. We will be applying for a larger grant from Skolverket and we will be applying for a number of smaller grants from various foundations (stiftelser) in Sweden, and we are reaching out to industry to provide tournament sponsorship.

Instead of going to the IYPT final in Pakistan, Sweden participated with a 5 person team (Bahar Safari (Hvitfeldska), Linnéa Loserius (Malmö Borgarskola), Morris Tegnér (Malmö Borgarskola), Hugo Deresiewicz (Norra Real) and Ilya Suyatin (Katedralskolan, Lund)) and three jurors at the OYPT 2023 on the 2th-6th of August.

Even though the fights were all online, three team members (Hugo, Morris and Ilya) actually met up with the teams from Germany and Austria in Lund! Sweden started out strong, being placed 10 out of 18 after round 1, but ended up in 11th place with 133 points (out of a maximum 250) after the full five rounds. This was a good result, just missing a bronze medal and our best result since 2019.

Thanks to all who took part who helped make it a success.

On 13-15 April 2023, Sweden participated (for the first time) with a three-person team in the Austrian Young Physicists Tournament 2023 and took home a bronze medal.

AYPT is Austria’s national selection tournament, but foreign teams are also invited. This year there were 5 three-man teams from Austria and 7 foreign teams (Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Sweden).

Over two days, the Swedish team competed by; presenting their solution to one of this year’s IYPT problems, acting as an opponent to another student’s presentation and acting as a “reviewer” during another stage. After each round, the team is given points by a jury, which are then averaged, weighted and added up to a final score.

The Swedish team performed at their best and were in 4th place after the first round thanks to their score of 40.4. After the three preliminary fights, they ended up in 7th place with a total of 133.3 points (out of a possible 180) which gave Sweden a bronze medal – Sweden’s first medal since the silver in IYPT 2019. Well Done Team Sweden.

We would like to once again thank all the students who participated, thank all the supervisors who have assisted the students as well as our sponsors and partners. Without you, IYPT in Sweden would not have been possible.

On Saturday, April 1st 2023, 7 students and about 10 physicists from all over the country gathered to decide who is the Swedish champion in IYPT. During the course of the day, the students took turns to present and defend their solution to one of the current IYPT problems and to act as an opponent for another student. The student receives a grade between 1-10 for their presentation and another grade between 1-10 for their opposition. We are happy that so many people wanted to take part as jury members, which made the assessment fairer. Presentation grades are weighted with a factor of 3 and opposition grades are weighted with a factor of 2. The students are ranked and the results are announced on the day.

The results were:

1. Bahar Safari, Hvitfeldtska Gothenburg
2. Linnéa Loserius, Malmö Municipal School
3. Morris Tegnér, Malmö Civic School
   

As a prize, all the winners received some money and a goodie bag thanks to our sponsors, Vattenfall.

Today’s task was also to select a team that will represent Sweden in the Austrian Young Physicists’ Tournament on April 13-15 in Leoben, Austria. The team will consist of Bahar Safari, Linnéa Loserius and Hugo Deresiewicz.

Thanks again to all those who took part.

We are very pleased and proud to present our main sponsor for 2023: Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company.

They are donating some goodie bags as well as cash prizes to the finalists in the Swedish finals. Their support will also help to fund our physics camps this year.

Thank you again!