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May 2023
Harrogate student among top achievers in national physics contest
A Harrogate teenager attended a national awards ceremony in a historic venue after achieving one of the highest scores in a prestigious physics competition.
Patrick Fleming, a year 12 student at Rossett School, achieved a 'gold' in the British Physics Olympiad senior challenge.
As a result, he was one of just five students from around 6,000 entrants to be invited to the annual awards ceremony at the Royal Society in London.
Patrick said:
Patrick is currently studying maths, physics, computer science and further maths at A level, and was joined in the competition by a number of other talented students.
The Olympiad, hosted by the University of Oxford, aims to encourage younger students to study physics and recognises excellence among them through a series of competitions.
The senior challenge saw students sit a one-hour paper designed to test their problem-solving abilities.
Rossett School physics teacher Stephanie Hunt said:
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