To encourage more students to present their good research results in PIERS, Best Student Papers will be awarded after their presentation in each PIERS. Three Prize Winners (First, Second, and Third Prizes) and 1-2 Honorable Mentions will be selected for each category (SC1 to SC5) by the PIERS Young Scientist Program Committee. Each winner will receive a cash award and a banquet ticket to attend the Award Ceremony.

A student competing for best student paper award must be listed as the first author as well as the presenting author of a paper submitted for ORAL presentation. A full-length paper is required for the evaluation of the technical quality. The full-length paper should be submitted by the full-length paper submission deadline and registered by the pre-registration deadline. The final score is 50%*(paper review score) + 50%*(presentation score).

The BSPTA applicants are strongly suggested to pay attention to the followings.

1. On stage (In Oral Session), a student candidate can use about 3 sentences to present the important problem the student wants to solve  (importance, main drawback of existing methods, their goal with significant advantage). Better in plain language that high school kids/ general public can also understand. Then use 2 minutes to present clearly what's the novel ideas and the excellent results. Students should be trained in effective oral presentation, introducing their work in the shortest time (e.g. 3 minutes). 3-minute is enough to get the committee and the audience interested and go to the poster session to learn the details.
2. Off stage (In Poster Session), the student interacts with the committee and participants, and uses the charts on the poster to present the details and good answers to their questions.

List of Best Student Presentation Awards