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Japanese 'Shining Star'
student to head to International Physics Olympiad in Iran
OSAKA: 3rd May 2007 -- Nishiguchi
Daiki, from the Salesian Seiko Gakuin (Stella Lucens or 'Shinig Star') School,
has been chosen as one of 5 very bright Japanese students to compete in the
International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) to be held from 13-22 July at Isfahan,
Iran. Nishiguchi, from Third Form at the school, performed brilliantly in
the preliminary tests which many students around Japan sat for. The
elimination rounds selected 17, then 10 and finally the 5
finalists.
Nishiguchi, whose school is already renowned in
Osaka and indeed throughout Japan for its academic results, will now be coached
personally by a professor from the University of Osaka, in preparation for the
Iran Olympiad. The school's headmaster, Fr John Bosco Namiki, is not shy
about his satisfaction at the news. "These are the kinds of results we can
produce at Don Bosco schools" he says, "where the same possibilities are open to
all". He added that he hoped this Olympiad involving so many young
students from around the world would be a contribution to peace given the
international situation surrounding and involving Iran at the
moment.
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