Resumen de Introducing the USAYPT � Do research in your high school then debate your results with other schools

Bruce Oldaker, Greg Jacobs, Tengiz Bibilashvili

• We introduce the USAYPT�the United States Association for Young Physicists Tournaments, Inc. Our motto is �Better teaching and learning by doing research in your high school.� We believe that all high school teachers can improve their knowledge of physics by forming small groups that perform nontrivial�but not cutting edge�research. In order to drive that process, the USAYPT sponsors a yearly tournament at which student teams hold debates over the results of their teacherguided research into four nontrivial physics problems.