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Re: International science olympiad
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 8:34 am
by Phenylethylamine
Both my parents (well before they met each other) were at the International Chemistry Olympiad in I think Bucharest in '80-something. I've never really asked them about the language issues involved, or how they qualified, but maybe now I will
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Re: International science olympiad
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 11:22 am
by binary010101
eak227 wrote:<SNIP> Not to mention that the US would get absolutely obliterated...
... by China, India, and Russia.
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 11:34 am
by dudeincolorado
What no geology?
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 7:03 pm
by Mr. Cool
US would get completely owned
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 7:44 pm
by sciolykid101
Actually, the US beasts at Biology Olympiad.
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 7:44 pm
by sciolykid101
Mr. Cool wrote:US would get completely owned
No... they're exceptionally strong in Biology...
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: June 13th, 2009, 1:35 pm
by manutd94
Note that the people on these teams may live in the U.S., but the participant's true ethnicities may be Asian or Western European/Russian. Here is one of the examples: US Physics Olympiad team 2008 - Tucker Chan, Edward Gan, Joshua Oreman, Danny Zhu, and Rui Hu. Only one non-asian, just saying
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: June 13th, 2009, 2:36 pm
by Liv
That would me awesome. But their would be major difficulties like languages or transportation.
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: June 13th, 2009, 2:44 pm
by rocketman1555
gyourkoshaven wrote:One small problem (Correct me if I'm wrong): I believe that the US is the only country that does Science Olympiad! (Although there may be teams from Canada occasionally)
there's at least one team in Mexico...they compete in TX every year
Re: International science olympiad
Posted: June 13th, 2009, 3:12 pm
by fmtiger124
rocketman1555 wrote:gyourkoshaven wrote:One small problem (Correct me if I'm wrong): I believe that the US is the only country that does Science Olympiad! (Although there may be teams from Canada occasionally)
there's at least one team in Mexico...they compete in TX every year
that's interesting....is it like some sort of school with kids with strong US ties? or are they mexican natives with very good english skills?