Saudi Arabia, represented by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity “Mawhiba” and the Ministry of Education, won two international awards at the 2023 Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad, at its 57th session, which was held in Kazakhstan from April 30 to May 7.
With this achievement, the Kingdom increased its prize pool in the Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad to 21. Including 16 silver and 5 bronze medals, with the participation of 116 students from 21 countries.
Saudi Arabia was represented in the current version of the Olympiad, a team consisting of 7 students from various educational departments, where the student Muhammad Al-Hadlaq, the third secondary grade of the Riyadh Education Department, who received 3025 training hours, won a bronze medal, and the student Ali Salah Al Mousa, the class Third secondary school from the Eastern Education Department, which received 3025 training hours, a bronze medal.
“Mawhiba” said: The members of the Saudi team in chemistry were nominated after passing through a number of forums within two years, and the qualifiers and nominations for the next forum take place, after which they move on to intensive training once a year, as the members of the Saudi chemistry team received 19385 training hours at the “Mawhiba” Foundation. , in partnership with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), by international experts, and students are selected according to their performance during the training period to participate in international competitions.
It is noteworthy that this achievement achieved by the students of the Kingdom comes as part of a complete journey and an integrated system in the Mawhiba Foundation, called “The Journey of the Gifted Student”, which includes several initiatives; Among them are talent classes, enriching academic and research summer programs, apprenticeship and innovation programs, and enrollment in prestigious international universities, offered after school and in the summer.
The Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad is the most difficult competition in chemistry in the world, in terms of the high level of questions, the method of the competition, and the main language of the competition is the Russian language. He introduced the first version of the periodic table of the elements.
