Reported By: School of Science

Photographed By: School of Science

Translated By: HU Yujia

Edited By: Jonathan Wylie

From?August 18th?to 23rd,?Huazhong University of Science & Technology?hosted?the Fifth China Undergraduate Physicists’?Tournament (CUPT).?The team from?HIT entered?the final after winning?all five group stages, and finally won?the only top award.?

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Thirty-nine?teams from 38?“985”?and?“211”?universities entered?the contest.?The?HIT teamconsisted of?six sophomores from?the?Department of Physics. They are GENG Yong, WANG Pengfei, ZHONG Hui, XIN Jian, ZHAO Zhonghai and XIAO Zhensheng, whowere drawn from each branch of the winning team in the Third CUPT. Before the school contest, they have?worked?for more than six months?using their?holidays and spare time. They also?worked more than a month?during the sprint phase,?after the school contest. With their effort, they won the five group stages in Wuhan and finally?claimed the championship.

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CUPT?is?a?national tournament?following the model?of?the?International Young Physicists’Tournament. With support from?the?Ministry of Education of PRC, in order to cultivate the contestants' innovative?consciousness, ability, team spirit and practical ability, the CUPT has become?an?important innovation contest?for?college students to?put into?practice?theireducation and?experience?long-term development planning. The contest is in the form of?ateam?battle, including 17 questions announced?one?year in advance, for?participating members?doing relevant scientific research. The contest is divided into?three sections;affirmative party, anti-party and commenting party to show the report and?they then?go on?todebate?their?research results. The judges?give?final grades according to the performance ofthe?players.

The site of?the?contest.

Group photo of HIT team.