The team comprising Aayush, Ashwin and Sivaram also got the best experimental team (gold) medal. In all, 33 countries had participated in IJSO-2010. India stood second with Russia and Korea on an overall ranking base. The top rank went to Chinese Taipei, he said here.
The students were led by Dr Ritesh Khunyakari of HBCSE and Chandan Bhosale of Garodia International School, Mumbai. The IJSO has been established in recognition of the significance of natural sciences in general education of young students and in all aspects of their lives, Joshi said.
The primary emphasis of the programme is to test students from all over the world for their breadth of understanding of basic scientific concepts and their interaction and the BCSE has been a nodal centre for training and selecting students for the Junior Science Olympiad, he said.