Starting from PIERS 2025 Spring, we encourage students to compete for the Best Student Presentation Awards (BSPTA). The awardees will be selected according to the following procedure.

1. Among the first-author students who have indicated their interest in competing for BSPPA, the Awards Committee will select a certain number of poster papers to form several sessions. A student competing for best student poster paper award must be listed as the first author as well as the presenting author. A poster file or full-length paper before 5 August, 2025 is welcome but not mandatary.
2. Every BSPPA applicant in each session will give a short summary presentation in ppt (3-minutes countdown timer will be set for each presenter), and no time for questions will be provided. Members of the Awards Committee will give scores of all the BSPPA applicants.
3. During the Poster Session on the same day, the Awards Committee will interact with these students with questions.
4. Winners of the BSPPA will be selected by the Awards Committee after the Poster Session.
5. The awards will be announced and presented collectively in the Awards Ceremony.

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 the recipients of Best Student Presentation Awards 2025 will be posted on this PIERS webpage.