Iranian pupils participating in the sixteenth World Biology Olympiad in China managed to win three silver and one bronze medals. In the olympiad, which started on July 10, more than 200 students from 50 countries competed in beijing, capital of China. According to the results declared, Dorna Motavalli, Mehrnoush Alborzi, Ali Anousheh won silver and Ahmad Shahabuddin Parizi received bronze medals. The seventeenth World Biology Olympiad is scheduled to be held next year in Argentina.
We are about to depart to Beijing to participate in the 16th International Biology Olympiad. It seems that this will be the biggest IBO ever held. China is a great country with a great people. May be the Chinese IBO will the Greatest too, as Chinese team often have got the best results in IBOs, where it was not IBO host. The IBO competition is taken quite serious by some countries, which find IBO a convenient place for competition, while others just take the advantage the assemblage of biologists and biology students brought together from all around the world.
Just 10 days before the 16th IBO, I have realized that the number of IBO members have reached to 54. Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2 neighbor countries will participate, while Persian speaking Tajikistan, which is an old member, is going to participate once again, after several years of absence. That means probably we will have 3 Persian Countries in 16th IBO: Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.