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Five Valencian students win the gold, silver and bronze medal at the National Physics Olympiad
- April 5th, 2017
Five out of six Valencian students qualified for the local phase of the Valencian university community have achieved extraordinary and historic results in the local phase at the Physics Olympiad. The event was held this weekend in Girona. Rafah Hajjar and Vicent Roig have won the gold medal. They have got through to the international phase of the competition. Also, three more medals, two silver and one bronze, have been awarded.
The award-winners with the medal gold are Rafah Hajjar Muñoz, from the IES Camp de Túria in Llíria; and Vicent Roig Requena (IES Hort de Feliu, Alginet). Félix Moreno Peñarrubia, from the IES l’Eliana and Francisco J. Marañón González, from the Colegio Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Valencia have won both silver medals. Alberto Fernández Hernández, from IES Doctor Faustí Barberà in Alaquàs, has obtained the bronze medal.
Raffah Hajjar and Vicent Roig have won the place in the XLVIII International Olympiad that will take place in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), from 16 to 24 July. Raffah Hajjar, who won also a gold medal in the Mathematics Olympiad, will take part in this competition; and Félix Moreno, prize-winner of the silver medal in the Physics Olympiad, will participate in the Iberoamerican Physics Olympiad that will take place this year in September in Colombia.
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 23 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 80 students, and got a physics course of more than 70 hours given by professor of both universities, previously the local prove.
The winners of the local phase were, apart from those who have won medals in Girona, the students Jiahui Zhuo Zhuo from the IES Sorolla in Valencia, who went also through to the national phase; and Sara Cebellán Debón, from the IES Henri Matisse in Valencia, who obtained an honourable mention.
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