Students from 16 countries participated in the competition held at Tel Aviv University. * Another Israeli student won a silver medal. * Two Israeli students won a bronze medal.
An Israeli student, Gal Dor from Ahad Ha'am High School in Petah Tikva, won a gold medal in the Asian Physics Olympiad that was held this week for the first time in Israel at Tel Aviv University, led by the Ministry of Education. The medal awarding ceremony will take place tomorrow in the presence of the Minister of Education, Gideon Sa'ar, the Director General of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Shimshon Shoshani, the heads of Tel Aviv University and members of the participating delegations.
The Olympiad ended with great success, as expressed by the president of the Asian Physics Olympiad, Prof. Ming Ju Lin from Taiwan: "This is the most successful Asian Olympiad held so far." The participating countries also expressed their admiration for the level of the questions and their originality.
The academic part was the responsibility of Tel Aviv University. The exams for the students were held on the university campus. The Kaleidoscope company carried out part of the complex logistic activity that was required for the benefit of this broad project.
In this Olympiad, the graduates of the Israeli Olympiad took an important part both in composing the questions, both in checking the exams of the competitors and in presenting the questions to the Olympiad participants.
In summing up the medals, Israel won fourth place with one gold medal - Gal Dor from Ahad Ha'am High School in Petach Tikva, a silver medal - Assaf Rosen from J.S. Mota Gur Municipal High School in Modi'in, two bronze medals - Gor Peri from Rabin High School in Mzecharat Batia and Ben Feinstein from Municipal High School B. Rabin in Modi'in. Two honorable mentions were awarded to Aviv Frankel from Ort Yad Leibovitz High School in Netanya and Keren Ben Zvi from Lady Davis High School in Tel Aviv.
16 students among the 120 students who participated in the Olympiad won a gold medal.
It should be noted that the competition is personal and consists of two parts - a theory test lasting 5 hours and after two days a practical test took place in the laboratory, which also lasted 5 hours. Winning the medal is determined by the total score the students achieved in the competition.
16 countries participated in the competition: Israel, India, Mongolia, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Australia, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
In the Asian Olympics, the leading countries participate in the International Olympics and it is considered more difficult.
The Minister of Education, Gideon Sa'ar, who presented the medals to the winners, said at the medal awarding ceremony at the end of the Asian Physics Olympiad: "Excellence is the fuel in the engine of human development and the condition for the existence of a more advanced and enlightened society. You - the students who excel in your field - are an example of excellence for your peers.''
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Thank you Moshe. fixed.
Well done, strong and courageous!!
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A lot of news here deals with what surrounds science and that's how it should be.
I don't think that many of the site's readers can handle the questions presented in the contest, but those who are interested are welcome to enter the contest's website: http://apho2011.tau.ac.il/?cmd=APhO2011.16
Bringing the Olympics here involved a lot of effort and this can be understood in light of Israel's position in the world.
Of course, an Iranian delegation did not arrive and the members of the Indonesian delegation did not arrive as formal representatives of the country but as tourists.
Jordan didn't send representatives either, but apparently this has nothing to do with politics because there were also Olympics in the past where they didn't participate: not every country manages to form a worthy team every year. There are also budget problems arising from the country's priorities. The Australians, for example, complained about their budgeting problems. They also arrived late (did not participate in the opening ceremony) and apparently their representatives were still suffering from jet lag during the exams (I say this based on the schedule and not based on the results).
As always happens - the representation of the fairer sex was scanty.
In almost all the delegations (most of which filled the quota of eight participants) there was only one girl or at most two.
The exception was the Mongolian delegation that included at least 4 girls (maybe 5 - I saw the delegation at the opening ceremony and with today's hairstyles you can't always tell).
This is sports news not scientific.
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