Achievement for the participants of the Technion's "Archimedes" program: a silver medal and two bronze medals at the Chemistry Olympiad in Hungary
The four participants of the Israeli team in the Chemistry Olympiad held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, managed to obtain a silver medal and two bronze medals. This is the best achievement for the Israeli national team, since it began participating in the Olympics three years ago. In the first year the delegation obtained one bronze medal and in the second - one silver medal and one bronze medal.
The winner of the silver medal is also a young participant - Assaf Ma'oda, 16 years old, from Pardes Hana. He is a high school student in Hadera and is entering the XNUMXth grade, majoring in computers and physics. He has two sisters and a brother and his parents are sports teachers at the religious state school in Or Akiva.
At the end of the 100th grade, he passed the matriculation exam in mathematics with a score of 6000 and his principal recommended that he join the "Archimedes" project in the Shulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion, despite his young age. Mira Katz, the project manager at the Technion Faculty of Chemistry, explained that in the "Archimedes" project, XNUMXth grade students study for an academic degree at the faculty, at the same time as their studies in high school. They receive transportation to the Technion and pay subsidized tuition. Professor Gabi Quentzel is the academic director of the "Archimedes" program and the "Chemistry" - a national competition in chemistry held every year with the participation of XNUMX students from all over the country.
The bronze medals were won by the girl Oshri Halimi and the boy Dan Liraz. Another member of the delegation was the young man Ariel Mahrehovski and she was accompanied by the director of the laboratory at the Shulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion, Dr. Iris Barzilai, and by the dean of the faculty, Professor Morris Eisen.
This is the first year for Assaf Maoudah's participation in the Chemistry Olympiad, in which 261 girls and boys from seventy countries compete. A competitor from China took first place in the competition and won a gold medal. "I want to finish high school with all my friends," Assaf says. "The road did not speed up for me. I participate in the Krav Maga club, play soccer and go out with friends. Studies are easy for me and I hope to continue like this. I will come to the Technion upon graduation or after my military service."
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Yehuda:
I don't know the Olympiad format in chemistry but in physics and mathematics there is simply a collection of unclassified questions/puzzles each of which is assigned a certain number of points for a correct solution.
The more points you get, the more chance you have of a medal.
More than one medal of each type is distributed - some gold, some silver, some bronze, but it's not according to subjects like in Sprot, but simply according to total score.
How many medals in SA and in what subjects are they distributed?
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Sabdarmish Yehuda
In the physics olympiad that ended these days we received one silver medal, three bronze medals and one commendation.
For the first time in the history of the competition, we got good results from the Iranian team.