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Schoolboys are back with three gold medals, two bronzes and high score
Staying up late, missing classes in their schools and many activities with friends, if you have your reward.
As well as collegial demonstrated ticos who conquered the last weekend the top awards in the Ibero-american Olympics for Chemistry and Physics.
Jennifer Calderon Mora, from Saint Francis College, was the gold medal in the XIX absolute Chemistry Olympiads, which was developed in Uruguay.
Presea is credited as the overall winner of the fair, which involved the best 55 schoolboys in Chemistry from 17 countries.
In addition,; Vargas of the Scientific School of Carthage, and Andrés Hidalgo, the Scientific College of San Ramon, achieved bronze medal each.
Almost at the same time, but in Paraguay, Juan Carlos Badilla, of the Scientific School of Perez Zeledon, and Jose Maria Gamboa, the scientist of San Pedro, won gold medal in the XIX Olympiad of Ibero-american Physical.
Badilla was also imposed as overall winner of the competition with the highest score, and has received the award for Best Experimental Review.
In this national retinue, Marco Madrigal, also of the scientist of San Pedro, and Diego Castle, the scientist of Alajuela, each received one mention of honor in the contest to measure knowledge of physics, of which took part 63 students from 17 nations.
With the triumphs of the two delegations, culminated a laborious process of training, study and playoffs in Costa Rica.
To a schoolboy represents the country in a just international such as these, you must first achieve the first sites in a national Olympics.
ELIMINATORY. After that, comes a period of practical training and theoretical (outside of the college) taught by university instructors, which ends with a qualifying examination to choose the four selected, explained Randall Syedd, professor of chemistry at the Universidad Nacional (UNA) and mentor of the team.
