PION is an annual interuniversity olympiad for physics students all over The Netherlands. This year PION is organised by S.V. Arago, the study association for Applied Physics in Enschede, and will take place on Saturday 16 November. This year is special, it is 30 years ago since the first PION was organized! Students will compete in teams for a ticket to the international physics competition Physics League Across Numerous Countries for Kick-ass Students (PLANCKS). This is the international physics olympiad, more information is on their website.

Winners PION 2024

First place: Get Vectored (MSc team from RU/UU/UvA) with 37.1/90 points
Second place: MDM (BSc team from UT) with 24.4/90 points
Third place: Goodknight (MSc team from UT) with 32.4/90 points

We thank you all for participating!

Next to the competition itself, there will be a speaker, dinner and drinks! You can sign up here! Do you want to sign up, but do not have a team of four people yet? You can send us an email (pion2024@arago.utwente.nl) and we will make sure you will be assigned to a team! ~~The registration will close on 9 November at 17:00, so make sure to sign up before then!~~

~~Click here to register for PION2024!~~

Registrations have closed!

If you want to expose your company to the best Physics students in the Netherlands during this event you can contact Marel Vrerink: marel.vrerink@arago.utwente.nl.

FAQ:

What does the general schedule look like?

The schedule of the PION event is as follows:

10:30 – Arrival in Hall B, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 in Enschede

11:00 – Introductory lecture “Bubble puzzles: from fundamentals to applications” given by prof. dr. Detlef Lohse. More information about the day itself will also be given here (room layout, Olympiad rules, etc.)

12:15 – Lunch

13:00 – Start of the Olympiad!

16:00 – End of the Olympiad

16:30 – Drinks including dinner

~19:30 – Announcement of the winners

I can’t fill a whole team; can I still participate?

You can! The maximum number of participants is 4. So you can also participate in a ‘team’ of 1, 2 or 3 participants. The same rules apply to smaller teams.