International Natural Sciences Tournament
International Natural Sciences Tournament (рус. Международный Турнир Естественных наук, short – INST) –an active and challenging competition in natural sciences between young scientists. Undergraduate and Master's students compete with each other in applied Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Engineering and Pharmaceuticals.[1] The global mission of the INST is to give people the possibility to believe in themselves and come up with the idea that their knowledge can change the world. The local mission of the INST is to change educational system to a better way, to help everyone present their ideas clearly and defend them correctly.
History[edit]
Science tournaments started to develop in Saint Petersburg at the 2000s. First tournament for school students was organized at 2000. Second one took place in 2001 and after that there was a 5 years break. Only in 2006 tournament activity started again in Saint Petersburg. The organizing committee headed by student Sergey Safonov started a new age of science tournaments in Russia. In 2006-2009 there was only local chemical tourmanent for school students. In 2010 first university students tournament started. The name International Natural Sciences Tournament (INST) was invented in 2011 and from that year student tournaments became not only international but also interdisciplinary. [1] Every year International Natural Sciences Tournament attracts brightest minds from former Soviet Union countries and starts to attract people from anotner regions. Students from more than 25 countries participated in the Tournament of all time: Indonesia, India, Russia, Malaysia, Ukraine, Portugal, Belarus, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, Italy, Poland, USA, China, Japan, Singapore, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Serbia, the UK, Spain, Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia.
Winners of INSTs[2][edit]
2010 | KNU | Alexandra Souvorova | Kyiv National University | Russian-speaking tournament |
2011 | KNU | Konstantyn Nifantiev | Kyiv National University | Russian-speaking tournament |
2012 | NSU-1 | Ivan Serbin | Novosibirsk State University | Russian-speaking tournament |
2013 | SPbU | Anastasia Ananyan | Saint-Petersburg State University | Russian-speaking tournament |
2014 | ChemTeam | Bogdan Sakhnevich | Tomsk Polytechnic University
Saint Petersburg State University |
Russian-speaking tournament |
2015 | Chuck-chuck Norris | Mikhail Yagofarov | Kazan Federal University | Russian-speaking tournament |
2016 | KiasuNUSPS | Tan Jin Hui | National University of Singapore | English-speaking tournament |
2016 | Budem Tvorit' Svoimi Mozgami | Tumanov Vladislav | Novosibirsk State University | Russian-speaking tournament |
2017 | Entropia | Olga Sokolovskaya | Belarusian State University
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Russian-speaking tournament |
2018 | Micks | Kim Mu Youngi | National University of Singapore | English-speaking tournament |
A list of cities where INST was hosted in[edit]
Year | City, country |
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2014 | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
2015 | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
2016 | Novosibirsk, Russia |
2018 | Agra, India |
Rules[edit]
A team, participating in the Tournament, should consist of 3–5 people. The team members should choose a captain and a vice captain amongst themselves. The captain is the leader of the team during the tournament and is responsible for interacting with the Organizing Committee and the Jury. The Tournament consists of extramural (1st) and intramural (2nd) rounds. To participate in the intramural round we need to perform selection. The extramural round problems are available on the website www.scitourn.com, where participants have to register and upload their solutions. A challenge is a sequence of actions of discussing a single problem. Three teams take part in a challenge: the reporting team, the opposing team and the reviewing team. During the challenge participants are prohibited from using any information sources (literature, laptops, tablets, e-books, mobile phones, etc.). A cycle is a complete set of 3 or 4 challenges in one section depending on number of teams in the section. In one cycle, each team acts once as a Speaker, once as an Opponent, and once as a Reviewer. Participants should be creative, confident and be able to uphold their variants of solving industrial problems to others/ Students should have one of the following specializations: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals or Engineering.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Home". scitourn.com (in русский). Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ↑ "Архив мероприятий". www.scitourn.ru (in русский). Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ↑ INST International League Coordinator Manual. Search this book on
International Natural Sciences Tournament - Official Page
The English Post about INST-2018
The Winning Team from Singapore on AsianScientist
First Russian Channel report about Russian-Speaking INST
Opopular.com - Shortly about Tournament
INST-2016 in Novosibirsk State University
International Natural Sciences Tournament on FaceBook
International National Sciences Tournament on Instagram
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