Thai students win medals at 2016 Asian Physics Olympiad

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Thai students win medals at 2016 Asian Physics Olympiad

BANGKOK, 10 May 2016 (NNT)-Thai high school students have won two gold and three bronze medals at the 2016 Asian Physics Olympiad.

Twenty six countries competed in the regional academic contest which was held in Hong Kong. Among the contestants, eight students were from Thailand. The remaining three students were awarded certificates recording their participation in the high level competition.

The students said they were proud to have received the medals after seven months of hard work since October last year. They are all planning to become scientists in the future.

The students are from the following schools: Triam Udomsuksa, Triam Udomsuksa Pattanakarn, Suankularb Wittayalai and Mahidol Wittayanusorn.


-- NNT 2016-05-10

[Hawk]

So?

[Trentham]

Were they wearing camera glasses???

[gandalf12]

Very nice but what did they get the awards for?

[Jiu-Jitsu]

They are just Secondary/High school children. Let's not turn this into something ugly.

http://apho2016.ust.hk/results.php Coming soon.

[Suradit69]

So?

So there are numerous posts made by those who believe that the education systems in Thailand and throughout Asia (and elsewhere in the so called developing world) don't produce capable students ... despite the fact that Asians seem almost always to be disproportionately represented in graduate programs in sciences, engineering and mathematics world-wide, many of whom are products of the same Asian education systems. In fact many such graduate programs in western countries would be unsustainable without foreign educated students enrolled in them because the supposedly superior western education system doesn't seem to produce that many students capable or interested in the sciences.

So, it's nice to see the success of some Thai students. Of course, anything published with a positive angle about Thais or Thailand will immediately generate the usual negativity here.

Since the title to the thread made the content fairly obvious, one wonders why you bothered to read it other than to seize an opportunity to contribute a lame comment.

[thai3]

Did the medals have chocolate inside?

[dcpo]

Olympiad questions are hard. Posters laughing at it think they're making fun of Thailand, but actually they're just revealing that they were never educated to a high enough standard to have encountered the science Olympiads before.

[thai3]

Lets have some examples then of the questions

[gandalf12]

They are just Secondary/High school children. Let's not turn this into something ugly.

http://apho2016.ust.hk/results.php Coming soon.

Why do you think the worst things? Good they won them but would be nice to know what they submitted to be awarded them

[masuk]

They are just Secondary/High school children. Let's not turn this into something ugly.

http://apho2016.ust.hk/results.php Coming soon.

Well done to those students!!!