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The YPO is an all-day (8:30-4:30) physics competition for Connecticut and surrounding area high school students and teachers. Established in 1998 it has taken place annually every year in mid October on a Saturday. Representing their high school or learning institution, students compete in teams of four to complete a pentathlon of different physics-themed activities. Different every year, they can involve: measuring an unknown quantity, optimizing a process, or constructing a device to perform a function. One event is always a quiz consisting of Fermi Problems, that require combining clever quantitative guesses to produce a good final estimate of some unknown number.
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