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Romania's team members won three gold medals and one silver medal in the first edition of the Physics Balkan Olympiad, carried out in Thessaloniki, July 14-18, 2019, informs a press release of the National Education Ministry (MEN).
The Romanian Olympiad participants were accompanied and coordinated by Ioana Stoica (teacher at the Tudor Vianu National College of Informatics of Bucharest) and Irina Dumitrascu (teacher and inspector within the Vaslui County School Inspectorate).
The Romanian delegation also included professor dr. Sebastian Popescu (dean of the Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi - Physics Faculty), as Romania's representative to the competition scientific committee, and professor dr. Radu Constantinescu (the Faculty of Physics - the University of Craiova), a member of the competition coordination committee.
The Physics Balkan Olympiad is addressed to secondary school (8th grade) or high school pupils, of maximum 16 years of age when participating in the competition.
Contestants of 11 countries (8 with a permanent status and 3 with a guest status) participated in this year's edition.
