IIT JEE toppers form Physics Olympiad team
They are part of the team that represents India in the Olympiad in July. Almost every year, the students selected by Mumbai’s Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) for the Physics Olympiad find themselves at the top of the JEE rank list.
This year’s team: All India topper Prithvi Teja, Shubham Mehta (JEE rank 2), B Sai Kiran (4), Nisheeth Lahoti (5) and Sumegha Garg (12), the topper among girls.
“The elite team of five students to represent India at the Physics Olympiad was picked on May 23, two days before the JEE results were announced. It’s not the first time that the students selected and groomed by us have bagged top slots in JEE. It has been a trend for several years now,” says Professor Vijay Singh, national coordinator, Science Olympiads. The three-tier selection process started in November 2010.
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The HBCSE is the nodal centre for other Olympiads—Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics—as well.
“The selected students are not resting on their laurels. They will be burning the midnight oil,” says Singh.
Over 80 countries are expected to participate this year in the competition which began in 1967. India has been a participant since 1998. While the Olympiad does not officially declare ranking of nations, in terms of medal tally, China has been a consistent winner, while India usually features in the top 5.
The Science Olympiad programmes in India are funded by the Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science & Technology and Ministry of Human Resource & Development.
“The JEE is just an entrance test, but the Olympiad is an international competition in which students like us have been given the opportunity to bring glory to the country. I am keen to win a gold for India. My parents, who have always been my strength, were in tears when they heard that I was selected for IPhO,” says Teja who is preparing for the competition by going through the papers of previous years.
His teammates share Teja’s excitement and enthusiasm. “The Olympiad is more important than my rank at JEE, not just because it’s an international event, but also because getting selected for it is tough. Also, the experimental tests at IPhO are creative, exciting and at a different level altogether,” says Sai Kiran.
The group will assemble again at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) by June end for the last round of preparations before it leaves for Thailand.
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