This is your return to the Physics Department of Cal Poly, Pomona home page. The competition is for teams of five students, none of whom have yet entered University.
Individual competitors sit for intensive theoretical and laboratory examinations.
This is the second time in its eleven-year history that all five members of the US Physics Team have won a medal. Over 1000 students participated in the preliminary phase of the US Physics Olympiad Team selection process which began in January 1996. The twenty students selected by competitive exams administered at their high schools as the US Olympiad Team attended a training camp held at the University of Maryland May 18 through May 27. Five members of that team were selected as a traveling team to represent the US at the international competition to be held June 30 through July 7 in Oslo, Norway. This year the US Physics Olympiad team won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the Oslo competition.