Youth STEM Cup

19th April 2025 (Prelim); 21st June 2025 (Final)

A Team Science Competition for Malaysians

AMISO's student-led olympiad returns once again in 2025!

Introduction

The Youth STEM Cup (YSC) is a student-led, nation-wide competitive science olympiad hosted by AMISO in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University!

Our main purpose is to promote interests in competitive STEM subjects (especially Olympiad competitions) amongst high school and pre-university students in Malaysia, while also equipping participants with the knowledge to prepare themselves for the selection tests of International Science Olympiads.

The Youth STEM Cup is a competition in which participants can join in groups of four, and are allowed to discuss amongst their teams during the competition. Points are calculated in teams rather than individually, and if there is a tie in points between teams, the team which submitted their answers earlier will be ranked higher.

The Youth STEM Cup consists of 2 rounds: the Preliminary Round, and the Final Round. Participants will have to qualify in the preliminary round in order to proceed.

The important details are as follows:

Preliminary Round:

Date : 19th April 2025
Time : 10:00am - 11:02am
Venue : Online

Final Round:

Date : 21st June 2025
Venue : Heriot-Watt University Malaysia

Registration

Application for YSC is free of charge!
Registration Deadline : 18 April 2025 (11.59pm)
Participants may join individually or form a group of four, discussion is allowed. Preliminary round consists of 36 questions whereas final round consists of 5 problems with 10 questions each (tbc).
Top 15 teams from each category will be selected to contest in final round.
Sign up today!

Cash prize and certificate awarded:

Winners and participants will receive certificates!

Prize money fingers crossed? We’re trying to find sponsors to fund for it. Do email us ([email protected]) if you’re interested in sponsoring us.

Special Thanks

Reading Materials

Below are some reading materials recommended by the YSC Problem Setting Committee. A scope of the YSC syllabus can be found here as well.

Mathematics

A First Course in Calculus by Serge Lang
Junior Problem Seminar by D.A. Santos
Tristan Chaang’s Book

Physics

An Introduction to Mechanics by Kleppner and Kolenkow
Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick, Walker
The Art of Insight by Sanjoy Mahajan

Chemistry

CK Yau’s Handouts
Introduction to Lattice Structures in Crystalline Solid
USNCO Quizzes
Form 6 (STPM) Chemistry Textbooks (any publishers)
Organic Chemistry by Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves and Stuart Warren

Biology

Campbell Biology by Lisa A. Urry

Earth Science

YSC Past Papers

The below are the Sample Problem Sets.

The below contains Problems and Answers of previous YSC’s.

2024

2023

Past YSC Events

The first YSC was held in 2023, with huge support from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia - the event was a success, and garnered the participation of over 1k students from all across Malaysia! A post-event writeup can be found here, and below are some images from the Final Round of YSC 2023: