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Don't forget Yankee, 3/4 ofUS Physics Team that won 5 medals (3 golds by Chinese with 2 silvers, 1 Chinese and 1 White).More of that! Institutionalized thievery has no place among honest researchers!
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2013 US Physics Team Scores Five Medals in Copenhagen
Contact: Marilyn Gardner
E-mail: mgardner@aapt.org
Phone: (301) 209-3306
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
College Park, MD, July 14, 2013The top US physics students scored three gold medals and two silver medals at the 44th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO), held this year from July 7 - 15 in Copenhagen Denmark where the best high school physics students from 83 countries competed.
China and Korea tied for first place with 5 gold medals, Russia and Singapore earned 4 gold medals and one silver medal, and the USA, Thailand, and Taiwan tied with 3 gold and 2 silver medals. US Team member, Calvin Huang earned the highest score in the experimental portion of the competition.
The participants representing the 2013 US Physics Team were:
Jeffrey Cai - Silver, Ridge High School, Basking Ridge, NJ
Calvin Huang - Gold, 8th overall, Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA

Jeffrey Yan Gold, 24th overall, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA
Samuel Zbarsky - Silver, Montgomery Blair High School, Rockville, MD
Kevin Zhou Gold, 5th overall, High Technology High School, Lincroft, NJ

"AAPT is proud to lead the selection process that identifies such exceptional student scholars. Their outstanding performance in this international competition is a reflection of the work of their coaches, the entire 2013 Physics Team, the support of their families, and the best of physics education, said Dr. Beth A. Cunningham, Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
U.S. Physics Team Selection
AAPT is responsible for recruiting, selecting and training the U.S. Physics Team each year to compete in the IPHO Competition. This selection process begins in early January when high schools register their students to participate in the Fnet=ma exam. Approximately 300 top scorers on this first test will advance to the Semifinal round of competition.

A second exam is used as the basis for selection of the 20 members of the U.S. Physics Team. In May these students traveled from schools all over the United States, to the University of Maryland-College Park for the U.S. Physics Team Training Camp. There, they engaged in nine days of intense studying, mystery lab, daily exams, and problem solving.
At the end of that training camp, five students and an alternate were selected as the "Traveling Team" to represent the United States at the IPhO. In July, the Traveling Team and their coaches attended a three day Mini Camp of intense laboratory work before moving on to the IPhO.
2013 US Physics Team Scores Five Medals