Japan Won Gold Medal in International Earth Science Olympiad

In the 9th International Earth Science Olympiad held in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Japan won 1 gold, 2 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal, announced the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, September 21.

Aritsune Tsuji, 17, of Nada High School won the gold medal; Kiyoaki Doi, 17, of Hiroshima Gakuin High School won the silver medal; Haruyuki Okinaka, 17, of Hiroshima Gakuin High School and Takanobu Mogi, 17, of Tsukuba University's Komaba High School won bronze medals. 85 from 22 countries participated in the competition.

In the 8th IESO in Spain, Japan swept 3 gold medals (Shinnosuke Uno, Nada High School, Gaku Nishiyama, Sugamo High School, Kento Nomura, Tsukuba University's Komaba High School, and 1 bronze (Masaki Sugi, Nada High School).

The International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) is an international competition of high school students of the world to test their abilities in geology, meteorology, environmental science, and terrestrial astronomy. It started as part of the activities of the International Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO).

The first IESO was held in Daegu, South Korea, and Taiwan swept three gold medals and one silver.
Mie, Japan, will host the 10th International Earth Science Olympiad in 2016, on August 20 through 28, at Mie University. 160 from 40 countries are expected to participation the completion.

One incisive piece of info to close the episode. Here's a brilliant young boy of 17, Kento Nomura by name. Kento is a student of Tsukuba University's Komaba High School, Tokyo and won the gold medal in the 8th International Earth Science Olympiad.  That was not all; he won silver medals in the International mathematical Olympiad for two consecutive years in 2012 and 2013, and, still more, participated in last year's (2014) International Geography Olympiad.

Quite a lad, indeed.