For the second consecutive year, QE will furnish one of the five members of the team representing Great Britain in the International Physics Olympiad (IPO).
Aniruddh Ragu (pictured left) will not only go to this summer’s IPO, but won a prize as the top-performing student in the selection process and also gained the British Physics Olympiad Theoretical Prize, sponsored by the National Physical Laboratory.
He will travel to Astana in Kazakhstan to compete in the IPO between 13th and 21st July, following in the footsteps of another QE boy, Madhi Elango, who last year achieved a bronze medal as the GB team came third in Copenhagen.
“Both boys made it to the final 15 who took part in this year’s selection week for the international squad at Oxford University,” said Physics teacher Ashley Dyson. “QE was the only school to have more than one finalist, so both Madhi and Aniruddh are to be congratulated on their achievements. They have been very impressive in their ability to dissect the problems they have been asked to solve and their diligence has been well rewarded.”
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For winning the British Physics Olympiad Theoretical prize, Aniruddh was presented at the Royal Society with a TI-Nspire graphical calculator given by Texas Instruments. He was presented with his award for his outstanding performance as a finalist by Murat Rustemov, Second Secretary at the Kazakhstan Embassy.