Knox Grammar School Year 12 student Harry Partridge (Turramurra) has been selected to represent Australia at the 2018 Asian Physics Olympiad in Vietnam in May this year. This places Harry in the top 8 students in Australia.
Harry was selected for the team after sitting four gruelling entrance exams over two weeks at the Physics Olympiad Summer School in Canberra in January.
“At the end of the first week of summer school, we had our first exams: a 2 hour 30 minute lab, and a 3 hour theory exam,” says Harry. “At the end of the second week, we had our second set of exams: a 3 hour 30 minute lab, and a 5 hour theory exam.”
Harry says he is looking forward to reuniting with the friends he met at summer school as well as being challenged in the competition.
“I love physics because it is a subject which teaches you to really understand the world around you in great depth,” he says.
“Simple things which you had always overlooked suddenly become interesting physical problems, and seemingly complicated interactions quickly reduce to simple solutions,” said Harry.
05 August 2020
There is a term that has been around for a while now – VUCA, which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. I think we can safely say that we have all, collectively, lived the VUCA world for the past several months.
24 July 2020
We have six new baby lambs in the Knox Agriculture Plot which were born in the last week, with one more ewe still to lamb.
23 July 2020
We would like to thank students, parents, staff and the wider community for its on-going support throughout the unprecedented challenges which have been presented by COVID-19.
