Winners of Int’l Noor student competition receive awards
The closing ceremony of the 3rd round of the international Noor School Student Competition of Mustafa (Pbuh) Science & Technology Foundation (MSTF) was held Thursday (April 26) at Andisheh Hall, Tehran, where winner teams received their awards.
MSTF Media reports:
The 3rd round of Noor School Student competition has received works from a total number of 2,107 groups comprised of 4,937 students, from seven countries. The number of works participated in the competition was 1,675 from which 100 works have succeeded to advance to the final phase and will be awarded at today’s event.
The closing ceremony of the Noor School Student competition opened with a few verses of holy Quran, followed by an opening speech by Mahdi Saffarinia, CEO of MSTF. He welcomed the guests and students who were the winner students, their teachers and families, foreign representative and some officials, including chairman of Mustafa Prize policy-making council Sorena Sattari.
Then, a selection of students’ scientific tests videos was also screened at the event.
The ceremony included fun scientific entertaining activities designed for the school students at the hall. The first was a scientific test that showed the student how balloons are exploded with laser beams. And the second was to show the mechanism of hydrogel’s absorbing water.
At the award section, some national and foreign officials handed over the certificates of appreciation to the winners. Cultural attaché of Iraq and the first secretary of Afghanistan embassy in Tehran were among the foreign guests.
Iraqi cultural attaché in Tehran, Yasser Abdul Zahra, handed over the award to representatives of the Iraqi winners.
Tanzanian students and representative of Pakistani students who were among the winners also received their awards.
The foreign winners section were followed by another section in which student teams were honored and awarded for their scientific efforts.
Hazem Faripour, secretary of Noor School Student Competition and the representative of the jury, gave some explanation on the process of judgment in the competition, calling the decisions to award only 100 teams is a symbolic act to appreciate the student efforts.
He announced that the 4th round of the competition will begin after the holy month of Ramadhan (June 2019), with the theme of energy and matter.
The official also briefed the audience on the significance of the works of the scientists who were honored in the competition.
Every round of the competition honors a renowned scientist or scholar of Islamic world based on the theme of the competition. The subject of this round was mechanics, and therefore it was held in commemoration of the prominent Muslim scientist Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari on April 26 in Tehran.
Badi az-Zaman Abu l-Izz ibn Ismail ibn ar-Razaz al-Jazari (1136– 1206) was a Muslim polymath, born in Algeria. He was a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist and mathematician. He is best known for his works on mechanics. In his work titled The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices he described 100 mechanical devices.
Prof. Omar Yaghi, the Jordanian prominent chemist who is known for his works on nanotechnology, will be the contemporary scientist to be commemorated in the next round, Faripour said.
The works of the students who participated in the contest were 60-second videos recorded of their scientific issues.
The first and second rounds of the international Noor School Student Competition were held respectively in 2015 and 2016.
MSTF, as the host, was founded with the purpose of creating and strengthening links among scientists and academicians of the Islamic world.
