Steven will arrive with his teammates at the University of Maryland in College Park on May 18th to begin a week-long physics 'boot camp.' At camp, students vie for a place on the U.S. Olympiad Traveling Team, which will compete this year in the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) being held in Taipei, Taiwan in July.
The 24 members of the US Physics Team were selected from a pool of more than 1400 students who were nominated by their high school physics teachers to take the Olympiad physics exams. "These students are inspiring," says Dr. Bernard Khoury, Executive Officer of the AAPT. "Each year I am more amazed at what these teenagers have already accomplished, and what I know they will accomplish in the future." Dr. Khoury has reason to be impressed: this US Physics Team boasts a published poet, a budding politician, and a student who speaks 6 languages fluently and taught himself physics from course material found on MIT websites when he was just 10 years old. This is in addition to the scholarships, academic awards and other medals and honors each of the students has already won.
More Quick Facts About The 2003 Olympiad Team and Physics 'Boot Camp':
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Websites:
US Physics Team (including pictures and biographies): http://www.aapt.org/olympiad2003/
International Olympiad Homepage: http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ipho2003/
For more information, to schedule interviews or request photographs contact: James Riordon, American Institute of Physics, 301-209-2084, jriordon@aip.org