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Physics Olympiad US Team 2003


Twenty four of the nation's top high school students have been selected for the 2003 US team for the International Physics Olympiad, which will take place in Taiwan in August 2003. In preparation, the students are training at a special Physics camp located at the University of Maryland. On May 20, 2003 the students and their instructors toured the Air and Space Museum. Later they met with officials of AAPT, AIP, NASA, and other federal agencies, and with several of the students' congressional representatives at a special reception held at the Rayburn House Office Building in downtown Washington, DC. The event was co-hosted by Representatives Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and Rush Holt (D-NJ), both physicists, and sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Institute of Physics, and the NASA Office of Space Science. The following pictures record that event.

 

James Stith, AIP Vice President, Physics Resources.

Olympiad coach Mary Moggi (L) and Marc Brodsky, AIP Executive Director.

Sarah Jenks, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), and Elena Udovina

Keynote speaker John Mather, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center.

Rep. Sue Kelly (R-NY) and Emily Russell.

Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH), Elena Udovina, Olympiad teacher.

Immanuel Buder and Rep. Thomas Davis (R-VA)

Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Julie Wu.

Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-MI).

AAPT Executive Director Bernard Khoury presenting a tee shirt to Rep. Ehlers.

Bernard Khoury and Norman Neureiter, Science and Technology adviser to the Secretary of State.

Olympiad students at the statue of Albert Einstein.

Rep. Rush Holt speaking to the students.

Elena Udovina, Bernard Khoury, and Rep. Steven LaTourette.

Amy Leblang, Peter Whalen, Rep. Martin Meehan (D-MA).

Group picture of Olympiad students.

Additional information: 2003 Physics Olympiad Website

 

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