manutd94 wrote: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
they are in Northern Mexico, right near the border, so probably a combination of both, and they are usually in the top 1/2 too, so they do wellfmtiger124 wrote: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?rocketman1555 wrote:there's at least one team in Mexico...they compete in TX every yeargyourkoshaven 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)
I highly doubt that China would be able to beat the U.S. At least any time soon. Granted this is all theoretical anyway. China's education system is not by any means exceptional. For a nation at it's status of development, it is phenomenal, and the high population leads to an abundance of prodigies, however it is not a team of individuals selected from all over the nation, it is a team of one school.kp9ssa wrote:US would get clobbered by india and china
the US would be clobbered by chineese living in the US (if they represented China) but not ncessarially by the chinesee living in Chinainuyashakusho wrote:I highly doubt that China would be able to beat the U.S. At least any time soon. Granted this is all theoretical anyway. China's education system is not by any means exceptional. For a nation at it's status of development, it is phenomenal, and the high population leads to an abundance of prodigies, however it is not a team of individuals selected from all over the nation, it is a team of one school.kp9ssa wrote:US would get clobbered by india and china
This doesn't mean I don't think the U.S. wouldn't be destroyed by others. France and Japan would probably clean up. India is iffy, their education system is poor, however I would not be surprised if they have some exceptional centralized national schools. The United Kingdom would probably also do fairly poorly in comparison to the U.S. because of their relatively poor education system. Sweden would be a big player. Iran would as well, mostly due to the training of young physists for obvious reasons.
On second thought, China actually would probably destroy us as well, if only because of Hong Kong.
