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<\/p>\nBy Rachel Lin and Esme Yeh \/ Staff reporters<\/p>\n
Taiwan tied for first with five golds at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Colombia this year, showcasing high school physics prowess.<\/p>\n
The team, led by National Taiwan Normal University physics professor Chen Chuan-Ren (\u9673\u50b3\u4ec1), was represented by five students, who were chosen from 2,361 students nationwide via multiple selections to receive pre-competition training.<\/p>\n
Competing with 381 participants from 91 countries, all five students won a gold medal for Taiwan.<\/p>\n
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Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Education via CNA<\/p>\n
Other countries earning five golds included China, India, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Russia.<\/p>\n
One of the five Taiwanese, Chien Kuo High School (CKHS) student Wu Ssu-chien (\u5433\u601d\u8b19) said he has enjoyed studying math and physics since he was young.<\/p>\n
He had experienced setbacks in previous IPhO selections, but continued to work hard to make the selection this year.<\/p>\n
CKHS student Kuo Chen-jui (\u90ed\u5bb8\u74bf) had also suffered failure in previous selections, but continued to strive to earn recognition for Taiwan this year.<\/p>\n
Wu-Ling Senior High School student Chiu Po-wei (\u90b1\u67cf\u744b) was inspired by his father, a science teacher, to embark on projects for physics competitions.<\/p>\n
Chiu did not receive Olympiad-oriented training until high school and developed his experiment capabilities by participating in the Taiwan Young-Student Physicists\u2019 Tournament.<\/p>\n
Liu Chien-yi (\u5289\u524d\u5955), student of the National Experimental High School at Hsinchu Science Park, became interested in physics after he was exposed to science and math videos in childhood.<\/p>\n
Liu began to join physics competitions after he entered high school and said he aims to read more untranslated textbooks in math and physics after the IPhO competition.<\/p>\n
Tainan First Senior High School Hung Ching-cheng (\u6d2a\u9756\u627f) won gold medals in the International Junior Science Olympiad and won a silver medal in last year\u2019s Asian Physics Olympiad before his participation at this year\u2019s IPhO.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Education yesterday said students who win a gold, silver or bronze medal can enjoy guaranteed admission or admission on recommendation to universities, with gold medalists being awarded a scholarship of NT$200,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rachel Lin and Esme Yeh \/ Staff reporters Taiwan tied for first with five golds at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,60,248,82,9889,9888],"class_list":["post-546222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-9888"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}