(IS2TS Indonesian Space Sciences & Technology School)
Vision
"Experiments In The Cosmos, Because Our Laboratory is Universe"
Mission
1. Menjadi Sekolah Teknologi Cyber Keantariksaan dan Kedirgantaraan Terdepan di Indonesia
2. Melahirkan Generasi Impian yang Selalu Bertafakur, Bertadabur dan Bertasayakur terhadap Keseimbangan Semesta yang Telah Tercipta
FIRST STEP TO NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
Central for Research and Development
for Winning Nobel Prize in Physics at Indonesia
Students in Research Projects in Physics
The First Step adalah suatu kompetisi riset ilmiah tahunan dalam bidang Fisika bagi para remaja diseluruh dunia. Ide pembentukan The First Step ini berasal dari Waldemar Gorzkowski seorang guru besar Fisika di Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Sekitar 20 tahun yang lalu Gorzkowski bekerja sama dengan Polish Children’s Fund memulai suatu workshop dalam riset Fisika. Dalam workshop ini siswa-siswa SMA melakukan penelitian bersama dengan para peneliti senior. Ternyata hasil penelitian itu demikian baiknya bahkan beberapa makalah dapat dipublikasikan dalam jurnal-jurnal fisika yang cukup bergengsi. Hasil ini ditambah dengan penemuan bahwa beberapa anak SMA mempunyai semangat meneliti yang tinggi, mendorong. Gorzkowski untuk membuat kompetisi riset untuk anak-anak SMA se Polandia pada tahun 1991/1992. Tujuannya adalah untuk menghargai usaha para murid SMA ini dalam meneliti serta memberikan kesempatan untuk membandingkan hasil penelitian mereka dengan penelitian siswa-siswa lain. Dalam kompetisi ini terkumpul 59 makalah yang ternyata levelnya cukup tinggi. Kemudian dari makalah-makalah ini dipilih 7 pemenang utama (First Prize) dan 19 honorable mentions. Honorable mentions dibagi dalam dua kategori: makalah riset dan kontribusi. Hadiah untuk para pemenang ini adalah berupa riset di Institute of Physics selama 2 minggu.
Sambutan dan hasil kompetisi nasional yang begitu positif ini mendorong Gorzkowski untuk mendirikan kompetisi sejenis tetapi untuk level internasional, lahirlah The First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics Competition di tahun 1992/1993.
History of the
First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics
Introduction
About 15 years ago the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, in co-operation with the Polish Children's Fund started to organise the so-called Research Workshop on Physics. During the Workshop pupils selected by the Fund partook in various "adult" research projects being carried out at the Institute. Some results obtained by the Workshop participants were extremely valuable and were later published [e.g.: K. Giaro, et al., A Correct Description of the Interaction between a Magnetic Moment and Its Image, Physica C, 168 (1990) 479 - 481; M. Braun, et al., Vibration Frequency and Height of a Magnet Levitating over a Type-II Superconductor, Physica C, 171 (1990) 537 - 542].
National Competition
Many scientists employed in the Institute of Physics are involved in both national and international Physics Olympiads since their beginnings and are in permanent touch with pupils and teachers. During our time with the pupils at both the Workshop and the Physics Olympiads we discovered that some of the high school pupils tried to carry out physical research by themselves - at schools, in some laboratories and even at home. It was then - under permission of the Authorities of the Institute of Physics - that I decided to organise the National Competition in Research Projects on Physics for High School Students. The aims of the competition were obvious. We wanted to recognise pupils’ efforts and provide them with an opportunity to compare their own achievements with those of their colleagues. The first competition of this type started in 1991/2. The number of papers submitted was 59 with many of them being of a surprisingly high level. In this first competition 7 papers won prizes and 19 received honourable mentions. Given the difficulty in comparing papers on, for example, chaotic behaviour with the papers on theory of networks, all prizes were deemed to be of equivalent value. The honourable mentions were divided into two categories: research papers and contributions. Similarly, inside each category the honourable mentions were considered equivalent as well. The prizes in our competition were not typical. Instead of buying items for our winners, such as cameras, computers, sport equipment, etc., we decided to invite them to our Institute for a two-week long research stay. It was felt that in the case of those whose main hobby is physics such a prize is more valuable and more instructive than anything else.
