Bathinda girl bags gold in physics olympiad

After attaining the top position among the girls in the IIT-JEE (2011) and overall 12th rank in this examination, Sumegha Garg from Bathinda has now added another feather to her cap by winning a gold medal at the 42nd International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), which concluded in Bangkok yesterday.

This was confirmed by Dr Vijay Singh, National Coordinator of the Science Olympiad, when this reporter contacted him over the phone in this regard today.

In this IPhO, more than 390 students from 84 countries, including five from India, took part. Sumegha, who won a gold medal at the IPhO, remained the topper in the girls' category while she secured the 11th position among more than 390 students, who took part in the IPhO.

Talking to TNS here today, her father, Devinder Pal Garg, Additional Superintending Engineer, Thermal Plant, Bathinda, said his daughter had been trained at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, to take part in the International Physics Olympiad for over a month.

Garg gave the credit for his daughter's feat to her teachers at the RB DAV Senior Secondary School, Bathinda, from where she had passed her 10+2 (non-medical) examinations.

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