Winners of Noor Student Competition 2017 awarded
EghtesadOnline: Winners of the Noor Student Competition 2017 were honored in a ceremony held coincidently with the Eid al-Adha (sacrifice feast) on September 1st in Tehran.
The ceremony was attended by Chairman of Policymaking Council of the Mustafa(pbuh) Prize Sorena Sattari; Secretary of the Council Mahdi Saffarinia; and a number of academic figures as well as families of the winners, said a report by the Mustafa(pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF) media center, IRNA reported.
The Noor Student Competition 2017 has been named after Prof. Jackie Ying, one of the prominent scholars of the Muslim world in science and technology. Jackie Ying was also one of the laureates of The Mustafa (pbuh) Prize 2015 - the science and technology award - for her achievement in the field of Bio and Nanoscience.
Winners were selected from among over 5,000 domestic and international nominees based on their efforts, initiatives, and creativity and attractiveness of submitted works.
Some 5,109 students in form of 2,194 groups took part in second round by sending a sum of 1194, one -minute films of their scientific experiments. The participants were allowed to compete in all fields of science including physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and astronomy.
The fifty selected works will enter a TV-broadcast contest and they will be broadcast in turn within a TV program.
“Noor Student Competition provides opportunities for students to develop in theoretical and sophisticated sciences such as mathematics, physics and chemistry. Being recognized, scientific breakthroughs, expanding the boundaries of knowledge and to be known as a future scientist in the Islamic world are intended objectives and accomplished effect of Noor Student Competition” Said Mahdi Saffarinia in his speech to the ceremony.
Pointing out that Noor Student Competition allows students to be familiar with different sciences, Saffarinia added: “during this event they find chance to learn team working which itself is basically very valuable.”
The annual Noor Student Competition, launched in 2016 by the Mustafa(pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF), to recognize and cultivate young students talents as well as promote scientific cooperation between educational centers. The first round of this competition due to the 1000th anniversary of authoring ‘The Book of Optics’ by “Ibn al-Haytham” was held in commemoration of this eminent Muslim scholar.