Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT)
Regional Council (RC) – 07
IAPT National Competition on Essay Writing in Physics (NCEWP – 2025)
Writing makes one perfect, essay writing more so…
ANNOUNCEMENT
Regional Level Competition on Essay Writing in Physics
(Open for students and teachers of RC – 07)
Guidelines for the competition
NCEWP is one of the four national competitions held by IAPT every year. The competition is
open to the participants in two categories.
Category A – Students of Higher Secondary/Jr. college, UG and PG levels;
Category B – Teachers of Higher Secondary/Jr. college, UG and PG institutions, also Science
Communicators working in recognized institutions.
You might know that the UNESCO has declared 2025 as the “International Year of Quantum
Science and Technology”. IAPT being a Physics Society feels privileged to be a part of this
celebration and the IAPT NCEWP-2025 is dedicated to the pioneers of Quantum Science and
Technology. So the broad topic of this year’s NCEWP is:
“Broad Topic: A Journey of 100 years of Quantum Mechanics”
Max Planck: Originator of quantum theory renounced previous Physics and introduced the
concept of 'quanta' of energy. These are small 'packets' that can only hold certain, prescribed
amounts of energy. In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman recognized that Quantum Mechanics,
with its unique properties like entanglement, superposition, decoherence, coherence,
tunnelling, teleportation etc., held the key to solving complex quantum problems.
In what is considered the first quantum revolution of the 20th century, scientists observed
quantum properties that enabled them to develop technologies that lead to the inventions of
LASERs, transistors, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) etc.
The second quantum revolution is all about controlling individual quantum systems, such as
ions, molecules, spins, quantum dots, to a greater extent than before, enabling even more
powerful applications in quantum computing and quantum information.
Your essay may be written considering the following points:
(i) Early Developments
(ii) Experimental evidence of hypothesis and theories of Quantum Mechanics
(iii) First quantum revolution
(iv) Second quantum revolution
(v) Brief description of some recent developments in Quantum Mechanics e.g.,
Quantum Entanglement, Energy Teleportation, Machine Learning, Quantum
Resistance Standard, Infrared Detectors, Quantum Sensing, Laser Techniques,
Superconducting Circuits, Qubits, Quantum Technology etc.
(vi) Quantum scientists and their contributions
(vii) Emergence of quantum technologies for the good of mankind
(viii) Future possibilities
Note: This is only a guideline and not a structure for your essay. Imagine a title for your essay,
be creative, scientific and innovative while writing it. Distil your thoughts on paper.
General Instructions:
1. The essay will be limited to 10 pages including figures/tables etc., type-written in the
Times New Roman 11-point fonts, with 1.15 spacing.
2. Hand written and scanned documents are not allowed.
Participants will provide the following information with their Essay:
Name:
Class/Course:
Name of the School/College/Institution:
Email ID:
Contact no.:
Identity card copy:
A format for the essay is given below:
IAPT National Competition on Essay Writing in Physics: 2025
(NCEWP – 2025)
Broad Topic: - A Journey from Classical to Quantum World
i. Category: A or B (Tick your category)
ii. Title of the Essay (Font Size 14) (Choose a suitable title of your essay, short and crisp)
iii. Count of Words: up to 5000 or 10 A4 size papers
iv. Author's Details (with Affiliation & Signature) (Font size 12)
v. Abstract: in 150 words (Font Size 10) Key Words (Maximum Five)
vi. Body of the Essay: not more than 10 A4 size papers, you can include pictures, graphs,
tables, infograph and other structures in your paper. (Font size 11) Add bibliography at
the end of the papers, resources, websites, books etc. you have used while writing the
essay.
Seal and Signature of the Head of the Institution:
Category: A or B
Total No. of words in the Essay:
Essay should be written in English only.
Important Instructions for conduct and participation in NCEWP-2025
For Category A:
Submit your entries to iaptrc07@gmail.com latest by 30th March 2025.
Maximum two entries per Institution may be submitted in Category A.
NOTE: Students will send their entries duly forwarded through their respective school/
college/institute to the email ID given above with all contact details. Two best essays from
School and College level will be selected by the Screening Committee of RC – 07 and will be
submitted for the National Level Competition (NCEWP). The state level winners will be
informed about their selection.
For Category B:
Teachers and Science Communicators will send their entries, duly forwarded by the head of
their institution, directly by email to the Coordinator or the members of NCEWP given below.
Retired teachers can self-attest their entry and send. All entries will be subjected to the online
plagiarism test and scrutinized before evaluation. Essays found failing in test will be rejected
out rightly.
Final entries for the national competition must be submitted in PDF format by email to any one
of the following:
1. Prof. S. K. Joshi, Coordinator, NCEWP, email ID: joshisantoshk@yahoo.com
2. Viresh Thakkar, Member, NCEWP, email ID:- vireshhthakkar@gmail.com
3. Dr. Runima Baishya, Member, NCEWP, email ID:- runimabaishya@gmail.com
4. Dr. V. Rajeshwar Rao, Member, NCEWP, email ID:- drvvr_kitss@rediffmail.com
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