Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/11
By: Chen Chih-chung and Christie Chen
Taipei, Dec. 11 (CNA) Taiwan has taken six gold medals at the 2018 International Junior
Image taken from the website of IJSO 2018
Science Olympiad (IJSO), leading the medal count among the 44 countries participating in the competition in Botswana.
The event, being held Dec.2-11 in the city of Gaborone, includes individual and team competitions for students 15 years old or younger, in the natural sciences — physics, chemistry and biology.
The six members of the Taiwan team each won a gold medal. One of the students, Chen Chien-yi (陳謙毅) from National Experimental High School at Hsinchu Science Park, also won the Olympiad’s best theoretical prize and placed second in the overall ranking.
Tseng Wei-fu (曾暐富) from Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School placed third overall.
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