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Math Olympiad Training Programs
The 2007 Orange County MATHCOUNTS was held on Feb. 17 at Crawford Hall of UC Irvine. At the event, 19 schools and 160 middle school mathletes were present for participation. In the morning, the students participated three rounds of competition to determine the placement of the top teams and individuals.
John Mather of NASA and George Smoot of UC Berkeley won the 2006 Nobel Physics Awards for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
The Mathematical Association of America released the 2006 AMC 8 competition results. 2,235 schools and 147,210 students participated in the competition. The average national score was 10.14 out of 25. California performed better with a state average of 10.76.
The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) originated in 1968 and involved participants from Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary. Other Eastern European nations soon joined the program. Western European nations entered in 1974; the United States sent its first team in 1984 and hosted the event in 1992.
Andrew Z. Fire of Stanford University and Craig C. Mellow of University of Massachusetts won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.