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New Zealand geography students win three medals
Thursday, 2 September 2010
New Zealand’s top geography students have picked up two silver medals and a bronze at an international competition.
(via University of Waikato) The four students represented New Zealand at the 8th International Geography Olympiad held in Taipei, Taiwan.
Waikato University Associate Professor Lex Chalmers, who was part of the Olympiad International Task Force, says the team achieved New Zealand’s best ever Olympiad result. “This achievement shows the strength of geography teaching in New Zealand,” the geography lecturer says.
As part of the Olympiad, students were taken to an unknown 10ha site in the Guandu Nature Park in Taipei and were tested on field skills, cartography, multimedia, and writing geographical analyses. Dr Chalmers set the key question for the fieldwork exam.
The International Geography Olympiad is designed to bring together talented geography students aged 16-19 years from around the world to promote, stimulate and encourage high quality geography education worldwide.
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