Four Valencian students have been awarded in the national level of the Physics Olympics celebrated last week in Sevilla. In total 6 Valencian students have participated in the local level of the Valencian universities celebrated in the Universitat de València las March. A silver medal, a bronze one, and two honourable mentions.
The awarded are Rafah Hajjar, from the high school Camp de Túria (Llíria), with a silver medal; Sergio Ferrando, from the high school Henri Matisse (Paterna), bronze medal; and Vicent Roig, from the high school Hort de Feliu (Alginet), and Diego Marcos, El Vedat School (Torrent), with two honourable mentions.
The Physics Olympics is an international competition in which students from many different countries will participate and which is organised by the Real Sociedad Española de Física (RSEF) in its national level. The Universitat de València -throught the Faculty of Physics and the Delegation for University Integration- as well as the Universitat Politècnica, are in charge of managing the local phase of this competition, which took place Tuesday 1 March and which consists in a written test with physics problems and exercises.
Baccalaureate students who participate in this prove opt to local prizes that include, among others, the free enrolment of the first course in the Universitat de València.
All the participants of the Olympics were preselected by a preliminary prove celebrated last October where attended around 90 students, and got a physics course of more than 70 hours given by professor of both universities, previously the local prove.
The awarded in local level, and so, classified to the national level, were, apart from the ones who have obtained medal or mention in Sevilla, the students Jordi Oviedo Timoneda (High school Cabanyal, Valencia) and Juan María Lázaro Miguel-Sin (El Vedat School, Torrent).
Last update: 26 de april de 2016 12:30.
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