Young Minds-Armenia and Artsakh Branches Awarded European Physical Society Prize

Yerevan Young Minds group with award, from l to r:
Artyom Stepanyan, Anna Grigoryan, Hripsime Mkrtchyan, Gayane Karapetyan Davit Aslanyan

BY HOVSEP DAGHDIGIAN

YEREVAN—A recent article outlined developments at the Young Minds project, which was established by the European Physical Society to foster science education among youth. The Yerevan branch, consisting of undergraduate and post-graduate university students, has brought hands-on science experiments and lectures to interested high school students in Armenia and Artsakh. The local Young Minds committee includes a number of students and researchers at Armenia’s Cosmic Ray Division of the A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) and other Armenian universities. The European Physical Society cited the Armenian Young Minds group with the “2019 Best Activity of the Young Minds Project” prize.

The award reads:

European Physical Society, Prize: The EPS/Young Minds has decided to award the 2019 Best Activity of the Young Minds Project to Artsakh YM Section and Yerevan YM Section for providing a stimulus for new generations of scientists and increase the awareness for the importance of scientific research amongst the widest public.

Anne Ruimy                                   Roberta Caruso
Executive Publisher                        President
EPL                                              Young Minds Committee