2010 US Physics Team Announced

With all the bad press that the US education system has received, it is good news that the U.S. is competitive in physics at the highest level. Over the past ten years, every U.S. Physics Team member traveling to the International Physics Olympiad has returned with a medal.

This year twenty students from across the U.S. have emerged through a rigorous exam process that began last January with approximately 3,300 students who participated in the Fnet=ma exam to become the 2010 U.S. Physics Team. These students will continue to train for the mentally grueling exams and lab tests they'll face at the 41st International Physics Olympiad to be held from July 17 – 25, 2010 in Zagreb, Croatia, where more than 400 student scholars from 90 nations will test their knowledge in physics, competing with the best in the world.

Yi Li, a junior from Arcadia High School in Los Angeles and Jonathan Li, a junior from St. Margaret's Episcopal School are part of the physics team.  For a complete list of team members and their bio, please visit 2010 U.S. Physics Team.

"Each student who participated in the 2010 U.S. Physics Team selection process is deserving of recognition. They are the future of
physics and physics education in the United States. It is AAPT’s honor to recognize the exceptional scholars who qualified for the
team and to support their further participation in the International Physics Olympiad,” said Dr. Warren Hein, Executive Officer of the
American Association of Physics Teachers in College Park, MD, which selects the students and organizes their training.

An integral part of the U.S. Physics Team experience is the training camp. Most of the students invited to the camp are the top science
student in their high school. For many, it is their first chance to meet other students who are truly their peers. The training camp is a
crash course in the first two years of university physics. Students learn at a very fast pace. They have an opportunity to hear about
cutting edge research from some of the community’s leading physicists. At the end of the training camp, five students will be selected
to travel to Croatia for the international competition.