6th Noor Student Competition Concludes with over 5,200 Submissions
The sixth Noor Student Competition has concluded following the completion of the judging process, with winners selected from among 5,226 submitted works, representing a total of 10,452 students.
MSTF Media reports:
The sixth edition of the Noor Student Competition came to an end after the evaluation of 5,226 nominations, an online educational course and a science camp. The winners of the competition will be announced and honored at a closing ceremony marking the end of this edition.
The Noor Student Competition is organized by the Mustafa(pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation Observatory for school students. The sixth edition aimed to encourage students to explore and better understand natural elements and the biological diversity.
Students were invited to submit their 60-second scientific videos focusing on natural environment, plants, and animals. The call for submissions was announced on May 12, and the submission deadline was August 2025.
Entries were accepted through both the competition’s website (noor.mstfdn.org) and via Shaad, the official student education network. The competition was designed to ensure that students of all ages could participate with minimal resources.
Submissions and Participation
According to the competition secretariat, 3,428 works were submitted through Shaad and 1,798 through the website, for a total of 5,226 works. As each submission was made by a pair of students, a total of 10,452 students initially participated.
After the initial screening, which removed duplicated submissions, irrelevant entries, and low-quality works, 1,892 works were accepted into the competition; this amounted to 3,784 participants.
Students whose works met the required standards were asked to fill out an online questionnaire; in total, 1,244 groups, comprising 2,488 participants, filled out the form.
Academic Level Distribution
Participants were distributed across academic levels as follows:
108 first-grade students, 113 second-grade, 144 third-grade, 156 fourth-grade, 174 fifth-grade, and 279 sixth-grade students (primary school); 156 seventh-grade, 362 eighth-grade, and 281 ninth-grade students (middle school); 88 tenth-grade, 95 eleventh-grade, and 60 twelfth-grade students (high school). In addition, 472 participants were not students.
Provincial Distribution
Participation by province was as follows:
East Azerbaijan (63), West Azerbaijan (40), Ardabil (48), Isfahan (131), Alborz (44), Ilam (31), Bushehr (57), Tehran (204), Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari (135), South Khorasan (64), Razavi Khorasan (281), North Khorasan (62), Khuzestan (110), Zanjan (28), Semnan (28), Sistan and Baluchestan (121), Fars (210), Qazvin (29), Qom (31), Kurdistan (64), Kerman (64), Kermanshah (48), Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad (40), Golestan (105), Gilan (58), Lorestan (62), Mazandaran (98), Markazi (64), Hormozgan (66), Hamedan (74), and Yazd (28).
Online Course and Science Camp
Participants with accepted works were invited to attend a free seven-week online course focused on social responsibility and problem-solving through a scientific outlook. Participants were evaluated through weekly assignments, which were corrected using AI tools.
The seven sessions covered the following topics:
Documentation Science, Advanced Manufacturing Methods, Social Innovation, Sustainable Development, the Internet of Things, Getting to Know the Science Garden, and Getting to Know the Environment.
Forty students who successfully completed the online course will be invited to a three-day science camp held at the Science Garden in Tehran's Book Garden. During the camp, participants will get to work on real-life problem-solving activities, engage in teamwork, and learn to use tools such as 3D printers.
The winners will be announced at an upcoming ceremony. A total of 40 prizes, each worth 30 million Tomans will be awarded to the 40 top-scoring groups (80 students). In addition, 30 prizes worth 20 million Tomans each, will be awarded to 30 randomly-picked groups (60 students).
So far, five editions of the Noor Student Competition have been held in 2015 (commemorating Ibn Haytham), 2017 (commemorating Professor Jackie Ying), 2018 (commemorating Ibn Razzaz Jazari), 2020 (commemorating Professor Omar Yaghi), and 2022 (commemorating Abu Rayhan Biruni).
