Noor School Student Competition Extends Deadline for the Submission of Works
The deadline for submitting works to "the Noor School Student Competition, in Recognition of Professor Omar Yaghi" has been extended to May 20th, 2020.
MSTF Media reports:
To provide more opportunities for school students who are interested in presenting their works in "the Noor School Student Competition, in Recognition of Prof. Omar Yaghi", the deadline for submitting works to this round of the competition has been extended to May 20th, 2020.
Noor School Student Competition, which is an annual event held by Mustafa
Science and Technology Foundation for students, aims to motivate the young generation of the Islamic world, create new horizons in science and technology, and help growing adolescents with extraordinary talents.
The fourth round of Noor School Student Competition which is named after prof. Omar Yaghi, the 2015 Mustafa
Prize Laureate, started this June. This round of the competition requires students to make one-minute videos of their scientific experiments on different aspects of matter and energy.
Students can submit their 60-second scientific videos in groups of two or three by visiting the section Noor School Student Competition at
www.mstfdn.org by May 20th, 2020.
The website also contains information on the assessment and judgment criteria of the submitted works. This round of Noor School Student Competition gives prizes worth a total of 14,300 dollars to the top 100 works. Research centers and schools with the most contribution will also be honored.
Each year, Noor School Student Competition is named after one of the great scientists of the world. On the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the publication of Almonazer by Ibn al-Haytham, the well-known mathematician and physicist of the Islamic World and a world-renowned scientist in the field of light physics, the first round of the competition was held as "Noor School Student Competition, Commemoration of Ibn al-Haytham".
Over 4000 students participated in the first round with 1,650 films on the topic of light and its applications. This round also praised the owners of 200 selected works.
The topic of the second round of the competition which was named after Jackie Ying, the 2015 Mustafa
Prize Laureate, included all the scientific areas such as Physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, astrology and a combination of various fields. One-hundred student groups were selected from among over 5000 students who submitted 2000 films from their scientific experiments.
This competition requires groups of students to make 60-second films of the scientific experiments that they carry out.
In commemoration of one of the most influential robotic scientists and the founder of mechanical mechanism in the world, Al-Jazari, the third round of the competition was called after this great scientist. The topic of this round was the mechanism of movement and experiments on different aspects of mechanics. The third round involved the participation of 5,122 students in 2,183 teams with the submission of 1,733 films to the secretariat and ended with the commendation of 100 top teams.
