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Results from the Swedish IYPT Championships 2023

From left: Linnéa Loserius (Malmö Borgarskola) (2nd place), Bahar Safari (Hvitfeldtska) (1st place), Morris Tegnér (Malmö Borgarskola) (3rd place), Hugo Deresiewicz (Norra Real), Ilya Suyatin (Cathedral School Lund), Torin Stanton Andersson (Procivitas Lund) and Viggo Kraft.

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.

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Vattenfall + IYPT = True

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

Vattenfall logo

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!

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Team Borgar Takes 2nd Place and a Silver Medal at BeYPT

Team Borgar who came in 2nd place and received a silver medal at the BeYPT (the Berlin Young Physicist Tournament). The team from the left: Jonathan Yong, Linnéa Loserius and Sabrina Li

On February 11, 2023, Malmö Borgarskola participated with a team in the BeYPT (the Berlin Young Physicist Tournament) and came 2nd place and thus received a silver medal. BeYPT is Berlin’s regional selection tournament for Germany’s national IYPT tournament and has a format very similar to a real IYPT. The team consisted of Jonathan Yong, Linnéa Loserius and Sabrina Li, all students at Malmö Borgarskola’s IB program DP1. Sam Edgecombe was the accompanying teacher.

During the tournament, where 28 students presented their solution to one of the current (2023) IYPT problems, each member got to present their problem for 12 minutes and also lead the opposition of another student’s problem – also for 12 minutes – then answer questions from a jury.

The tournament was hosted by Herder Gymnasium, which has a mathematics and physics profile and with which Malmö Borgarskola has had a long-standing collaboration (It was actually through Malmö Borgarskola that Herder Gymnasium heard about IYPT in 2011). The day before the tournament, the students got to participate in a grade 12 physics lesson, then they visited the “Deutsches Technikmuseum” and the “Science Center Spectrum”.

The trip was made possible thanks to Erasmus+ money administered by Malmö Borgarskola.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made this trip possible, especially our German guests in Berlin; the teachers Dr. Mr. Ebert, Mrs Jeschke and the host students Antonia Macha, Jolanda Fehlinger and Rasmus Stegelmann.

On behalf of the team,

Sam Edgecombe

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IYPT Team 2017

Team Sweden 2017. From left to right: William Kocalp (Borgar), Lars Gråsjö (lärare, Danderyd), Jakob Lavröd (former teamm member and assistant), Daniel Javedinejad (Borgar), Erik Böjs (Norra Real), Sam Edgecombe (teacher, Borgar), Tina Eslami (Borgar) and Daniel Lizotte (Borgar)

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Sweden’s IYPT 2016 Team

Thanks to all that those who took part in this year’s try-outs for the Swedish IYPT team. The team that we will take to Russia are:

Yasmin Sheihk Ali (Malmö Borgarskola)
Kevin Furmanski (Malmö Borgarskola)
Nelly Vuong (S:t Petri skola, Malmö)
Phiphi Tran
William Kocalp (Malmö Borgarskola)

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Team Sweden 2015

The team for Sweden which will go and represent their country in Thailand will be (in no particular order) will be;

Alex Åkesson (Malmö Borgarskola)
Daniel Jacobsson (Malmö Borgarskola)
Fransiska Aspegrén (Malmö Borgarskola)
Ivar Ericsson (Norra Real, Stockholm)
Toomas Liiv (Danderyds gymnasium)

Congratulations and good luck in the competition.

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Congratulations Team Sweden 2014

Well done to Team Sweden who took home bronze medels during this year’s IYPT final in Shrewsbury, UK.  The team that came an honourable 11th place consisted of

Fransiska Aspegrén
Jakob Hellman
Daniel Jacobsson
Sabrina Wang
Alexander Åkesson

We look forward to taking on 2015’s problems.

A big thanks to all those who helped team Sweden in their success including Jakob L, Felicia, Patrick, Lars G, Damir and of course Kim!

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