RESOnites won 2 silver medals in International Earth Science Olympiad 2011
Yash Gupta & Yash Nalwaya, Two students of Resonance Udaipur Study centre, have
continued the historical performances in International Olympiads by RESONites. Both
the students have won Silver Medals in the final stage of International Earth Science
Olympiad (IESO) - 2011. Both of them are students of Class XI studying at Resonance
Udaipur study centre for IIT-JEE preparation and both are yearlong classroom students
of Resonance (YCCP). The topic of the IESO was Earth Science Renaissance: science,
environment and art . More than 100 Students from 34 countries participated
in this event.
Four Students were selected from India to represent the country in Fifth IESO which
was held at Modena, Italy from 5th-14th Sep. 2011. Apart from Yash Gupta & Yash
Nalwaya, Jashan Singhal, who was a 10th class student from Pre-foundation Career
Care division (PCCP) of Resonance Udaipur study centre in Academic Session 2010-11,
also represented India & won Silver Medal. Fourth student from India won Bronze
Medal.
IESO one of the twelve International Science Olympiads, is an annual competition
for secondary school students. The exam was conducted in 3 stages. First Stage was
a written Test conducted on 23rd January 2011. After this written Test, 21 Students
were selected for the Preparatory Camp which was conducted at the University of
Hyderabad, Hyderabad from 4th to 25th May 2011. Five students from Resonance were
selected from Resonance, Udaipur for this camp.
After this camp, finally 4 students (Which included 3 from Resonance, Udaipur study
centre) were selected to represent India in International Earth Science Olympiad
which concluded yesterday in ITALY.
YASH Gupta had earlier won a Gold Medal for India in IJSO - 2010 held in Abuja,
Nigeria.
