Press Release
August 15, 2008

Villar files resolution commending high school students
who won in int'l physics competitions

Senate President Manny Villar filed Senate Resolution No. 568 commending high school students from the Fountain International School in San Juan City for winning two gold and one bronze medals in international physics competitions in Turkey, Bosnia Herzegovina and Georgia.

The resolution cited, "Royce Pacibe and Rafi Dimakuta won a gold medal in the Third Young Inventors Physics Project Olympiad held in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina for their project called 'crystal radio.'"

"The same invention won them another gold medal in the Second International Competition held in Tbilisi, Georgia," it stated.

"These two students were also awarded a bronze medal in the First Yunepo Yunus Emre Invitation for Love and Peace International Project Olympiad conducted at Eskisehir, a university town west of Ankara, Turkey."

"The Philippine Senate proudly acknowledges the honor and prestige that the Fountain International School in San Juan City has brought to the country for having provided the best physics education to its students by exceptionally making distinctions in the international competitions," Villar's resolution said.

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