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Video Highlights Physics Tournament

Watch a new video about the United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament.  High school physics students from nine schools in five states and three countries gathered at the Forest on January 30-31, 2015, for the physics research and debate contest that pits teams of two to four students against each other in “physics fights.” Teams worked on their solutions to the open-ended problems for the past year. Judges evaluate not only teams' solutions but also their skill in challenging the other teams’ solutions and defending their own. Woodberry's team finished in second place, behind The Harker School of California.

This year’s keynote address was delivered by Dr. Chat Hull ’02, a Jansky postdoctoral fellow of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chat earned a BS from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The public was invited to hear Chat’s talk, “Star Formation Through Radio Eyes,” in Bowman Gray Auditorium, Walker Fine Arts Center, at 2:30 p.m. on January 30, 2015.

Learn more about the USIYPT.

View the mini-documentary about the US Invitational Young Physicists Tournament.
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