National Science Talent Contest STC-17 PPT

National Science Talent Contest STC-17

1. National Science Talent Contest(NSTC) Progress 2001 - 2019 A joint venture of Higher Education Commission and Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences, for grooming in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) 1 1 1 STEM Careers Programme

2. This Presentation will cover following Points

3. Introduction

4. STEM Career Program (SCP) is a joint venture of Higher Education Commission (HEC) & Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science (PIEAS)   It has two fold Mission To inspire youth of the Nation to opt for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and preparing them for participation in the annual International Olympiad in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics. To encourage engineering students to come up with innovative solutions to problems of national interest preferably related to local industry and R & D. National Science Talent Contest (NSTC) strives to address the first part of the mission, and National Engineering Competition (NEC) address the second part of the mission.

5. NSTC The National Science Talent Contest (NSTC) is a regular annual event since 2003. It is an extension of the National Physics Talent Contest (NPTC), which was initiated by PlEAS in 1995. It strives to vitalize science education at the intermediate level, a crucial stage for professional career choices. NSTC, and earlier NPTC, won national and international recognition for the country by winning silver and bronze medals and honorable mentions. The participants of this Contest are selected and groomed through a rigorous process. National Science Talent Contest About

6. National Science Talent Contest NSTC NPTC NCTC NBTC NMTC National Physics Talent Contest National Chemistry Talent Contest National Mathematics Talent Contest National Biology Talent Contest

7. NSTC Life Cycle Students, who scored an aggregate of 70% or more marks 9 th ,10 th ,O Level , FSc (Part-I) , A Level (Part-I). Nationwide Screening Test conducts in the major cities . Top 50 students are invited for one week fully residential training camp in each of the NSTC subject on the basis of their performance in the Screening Test. The grooming/selection process gradually narrows down this number to 4-6 best students in each of these subjects. Olympiad teams of 4-6 students are selected through a series of subsequent training camps during a year for participation of International Science Olympiads to represent their country. Pakistan is regularly participating in the International Physics Olympiad since 2001, in the Mathematics Olympiad since 2005 and in the Biology and Chemistry Olympiad since 2006. The performances of Pakistani teams in these Olympiads have been quite encouraging.

8. Home Institutions of NSTC BIOLOGY : National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad CHEMISTRY: H.E.J Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi . MATHEMATICS : COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore Campus, Lahore. PHYSICS : Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Islamabad.

9. Steps for Inviting talented Students Publish Advertisement in major National Dailies. Send Posters & Introductory packages to more than 8000 schools/colleges across Pakistan. To contact maximum schools/colleges through social media (Email , Facebook, Twitter). To send Posters to more than 2000 STEM Alumni through emails with request for presentation to their nearest schools/colleges. STEM website, Facebook page and Twitter are being updated regularly . Moreover, top position holders of all BISEs across Pakistan are also invite to attend NSTC training camps without screening test. Progress

10. NSTC Participants 2005 -2019 Years NPTC NCTC NMTC NBTC Total 2005 682 233 536 582 2033 2006 693 317 611 899 2520 2007 759 527 617 1115 3018 2008 976 564 869 1167 3576 2009 1017 994 1100 1035 4146 2010 1186 1178 1229 1392 4985 2011 1094 877 1087 1345 4403 2012 1055 855 815 1284 4009 2013 765 769 881 1129 4544 2014 1195 1248 1090 1380 4439 2015 1219 1237 1222 1229 4907 2016 1331 1266 1113 1823 5533 2017 1100 1295 1246 1452 5093 2018 1087 935 1377 2014 5413 2019 1119 892 1485 2512 6008 Progress

11. Graphical representation of NPTC, NMTC ,NCTC ,NBTC Participants (2005 -2019) Progress

12. Graphical representation of NSTC Participants (2005 -2019) Progress

13. ISOs Pakistan is regularly participating in the International Physics Olympiad since 2001, in the Mathematics Olympiad since 2005 and in the Biology and Chemistry Olympiad since 2006. The performances of Pakistani teams in these Olympiads have been quite encouraging. In International Science Olympiads, Pakistani teams have won 4 Silver Medals, 60 Bronze Medal and 49 Honorable Mentions ,1 Merit Certificate and 2 Special Prizes. International Science Olympiads About

14. International Science Olympiads ISOs IPhO DBC IChO IBO IMO International Physics Olympiad International Chemistry Olympiad International Mathematical Olympiad International Biology Olympiad

15. ISO’s Progress 2001 -2018 Years Biology ( IBO ) Chemistry ( IChO ) Mathematics (IMO) Physics ( IPhO ) Total Awards Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. 2001 Turkey 1 HM 1 2002 Indonesia 5 BM HM 2 3 2003 Iran 2 BM HM 1 1 2004 South Korea 3 HM 3 2005 Mexico Spain 2 Nil Nil HM 2 2006 Argentina South Korea Slovenia Singapore 3 BM 1 No medal BM 1 HM 1

16. ISO’s Progress 2001 -2018 Years Biology ( IBO ) Chemistry ( IChO ) Mathematics (IMO) Physics ( IPhO ) Total Awards Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. 2007 Canada Russia Vietnam Iran 7 BM 1 BM 2 BM HM 1 1 HM 2 2008 India Hungary Spain Iran 7 SM 1 BM 2 Not Participated SM BM HM 1 1 2 2009 Japan UK Germany Mexico 9 BM 2 BM 2 BM 1 BM HM 2 2 2010 South Korea Japan Kazakhstan Croatia 6 BM 2 No Medal HM 1 HM 3 2011 Taiwan Turkey Netherlands Thailand 12 BM 4 BM 2 BM HM 1 1 BM HM 2 2 2012 Singapore USA Argentina Estonia BM HM 2 1 BM 1 SM HM 1 1 BM 1 7

17. ISO’s Progress 2001 -2018 Years Biology ( IBO ) Chemistry ( IChO ) Mathematics (IMO) Physics ( IPhO ) Total Awards Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. 2013 Switzerland Russia Colombia Denmark 6 - - BM 3 HM 3 - - 2014 Indonesia Vietnam South Africa Kazakhstan 8 HM BM 2 2 BM 4 - - - 2015 Denmark Azerbaijan Thailand India 9 BM SM HM 1 1 2 BM 2 BM 1 BM HM 1 1 2016 Vietnam Georgia Hong Kong Switzerland 5 BM 3 BM 1 No Medal HM 1 2017 UK Thailand Brazil Indonesia 9 BM 2 BM 1 BM HM 1 3 HM 2 2018 Tehran, Iran Slovakia & Czech Repubic Romania Portugal Merit 1 BM 1 HM 3 - - 5

18. ISO’s Progress 2001 -2019 Years Biology ( IBO ) Chemistry ( IChO ) Mathematics (IMO) Physics ( IPhO ) Total Awards Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. Award Nos. 2019 Hungary France UK 7 BM HM 01 01 BM HM 01 02 BM HM 01 01 - -

19. Graphical representation Progress of Pakistani Teams in ISOs (2005 -2019)

20. ISOs Awards No’s Silver (SM) 04 Bronze (BM) 60 Honorable Mention (HM) 49 Merit Certificate 01 Special Prizes 02 Total 116 International Science Olympiads Achievements Total Awards received upto 2018

21. Olympiads (2001 – 2019) Photo Gallery

22. IPhO Olympiads IPhO-32, Turkey, 2001 IPhO-33 Team, Indonesia, 2002 IPhO-34 Team, Taiwan, 2003 IPhO-35 Team, South Korea, 2004

23. IPhO Olympiads IPhO-36 Team, Spain 2005 IPhO-37 Team, Singapore 2006 IPhO-38 Team, Iran, 2007 IPhO-39, Vietnam, 2008

24. IPhO Olympiads IPhO-40 Team, Mexico, 2009 IPhO-42 Team, Thailand, 2011 IPhO-41 Team, Croatia, 2010 IPhO-43 Team, Estonia, 2012

25. IPhO Olympiads IPhO-44 Team, Denmark, 2013 IPhO-46 Team, India, 2015 IPhO-45 Team, Kazakhstan, 2014 IPhO-47, Switzerland, 2016

26. IPhO Olympiads IPhO-49 Team, Indonesia, 2017

27. INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGY OLYMPIAD since 2006 Honorable Mentions: 06 Bronze Medals: 21 Silver Medals: 02

28. IBO Olympiads IBO-17 Team, Argentine, 2006 IBO-18 Team, Canada, 2007 IBO-19 Team, India, 2008 IBO-20 Team, Japan, 2009

29. IBO Olympiads IBO-21 Team, South Korea, 2010 IBO-22 Team, Taiwan, 2011 IBO-23 Team, Singapore, 2012 IBO-24 Team, Switzerland, 2013

30. IBO Olympiads IBO-28, UK ,2017 IBO-25 Team, Indonesia, 2014 IBO-26 Team, Denmark, 2015 IBO-27 Team, Vietnam, 2016

31. IBO Olympiads IBO-29 Team, Tehran,Iran , 2018 IBO-30 Team,Hungary , 2019

32. INTERNATIONAL CHEMISTRY OLYMPIAD since 2006 Merit Certificate : 01 Bronze Medals: 21 Honorable Mentions: 02

33. IChO Olympiads IChO-39 Team, Russia, 2007 IChO-41 Team, UK, 2009 IChO-40 Team, Hungary, 2008 IChO-38 Team, South Korea, 2006

34. IChO Olympiads IChO-43 Team, Turkey, 2011 IChO-42 Team, Japan, 2010 IChO-45 Team, Russia 2013, IChO-44 Team, USA, 2012

35. IChO Olympiads IChO-48, Georgia , 2016 IChO-47 Team, Azerbaijan, 2015 IChO-46 Team, Vietnam, 2014 IChO-49, Thailand, 2017

36. IChO Olympiads IChO-50 Team, Slovakia & Czech Republic , 2018 IChO-51 Team, France, 2019

37. INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS OLYMPIAD since 2006 Honorable Mentions: 15 Bronze Medals: 07 Silver Medals: 01

38. IMO Olympiads IMO-46 Team, Mexico, 2005 IMO-47 Team, Slovenia, 2006 IMO-48 Team, Vietnam, 2007 IMO-50 Team, Germany, 2009

39. IMO Olympiads IMO-51 Team, Kazakhstan, 2010 IMO-52 Team, Netherland, 2011 IMO-53 Team, Argentina, 2012 IMO-54 Team, Colombia, 2013

40. IMO Olympiads IMO-57, Hong Kong, 2016 IMO-56 Team, Thailand, 2015 IMO-58 Team, Brazil, 2017 IMO-59 Team, Cluj Napoca, Romania , 2018

41. IMO Olympiads IMO-60 Team, UK, 2019

42. NEC NATIONAL ENGINEERING CONTEST(NEC

43. NATIONAL ENGINEERING CONTEST(NEC National Engineering Competition (NEC) is being launched on a pilot scale this year under the umbrella of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Careers Programme , a joint venture of PIEAS and HEC. The main idea behind the NEC is to encourage undergraduate engineering students public in as well as private sector engineering institutions to come up with innovative solutions to problems of national interest.  STEM Career Programme could provide modest funding not exceeding 10,000 rupees per team to facilitate work on this project.  Each team should preferably consist of 3-4 students belonging to different departments that are relevant to the theme of the project. These teams will first compete amongst each other and the winning team from each university shall compete against winning teams from other universities at the national level.

44. International Science Olympiads NEC DBC NERC DBFC National Engineering Robotics Contest is a joint project of NUST and STEM Careers Programme to promote research in robotics and its related fields in Pakistan.  Design, Build and fly competition is a nationwide competition, organized by the GIK Institute in collaboration with STEM Careers Programme. NEC

45. NATIONAL ENGINEERING ROBOTICS CONTEST Department of Mechatronics Engineering at College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, NUST and STEM Careers Programme are jointly hosting National Engineering Robotics Contest regularly sine 2003. More than 60 teams from Universities and Engineering Institutes from all over Pakistan are participating in the Competition. All participating teams have to design robots based on a predefined theme. NERC

46. NERC 46

47. NERC A photograph of winning team of NERC-2018

48. DBFC DESIGN, BUILD AND FLY COMPETITION (Since 2006) DBFC is part of the National Engineering Competitions of the STEM organized by GIK to groom the youth by providing an excellent opportunity to the students and faculty from multiples disciplines to involve in the creative activities involved in Design, Build and Fly in collaboration with professionals involved in flying. The aim of such competition is to encourage the youth and to hunt the talent to ultimately take them to international level competitions in the years to come. 

49. DBFC Winner Teams of DBFC with Chair STEM

50. DBFC Team Bolts from NUST SMME receiving award from Dr . Masroor Ikram in 13 th DBFC-2018 at GIKI

51. Over the last 16 years NPTC, NSTC and NEC have won the imagination for the talented youth of the nation and every year more and more of them look forward to participate in it. These activities will be continued in future for fulfilling the mission of STEM Careers Programme of promoting excellence in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education in Pakistan. The 16th National Science Talent Contest will be launched in October 2018. Details will be available at www.stem.edu.pk GOALS

52. GOALS STEM Careers Website and Online Portal The NSTC web page has been modified to incorporate on-line registration, so that more than 10,000 students can submit their registration forms.

53. Registration Procedure Students will fill online registration form with valid information .There will be on spot age validations, so that it will save time which was spent on cross check manually. Student will submit fees , and enter details online with uploading scan copy of submitted chalan . On admin side, student details and chalan will verified . Test centres and time will allocated online and automated call letter will be generated and send Emails to verified Students. Student will download their call letters from website.