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Warsaw high schooler wins 68th national Astronomy Olympiad

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A Warsaw high school student won Poland’s 68th Astronomy Olympiad, giving him and five other young winners the chance to represent their country in India later this year.

The annual event is the most prestigious Polish astronomy competition for young people and is organized by the planetarium in the Silesian Science Park in the northwestern city of Chorzów.

Dawid Chudzik, a student of the 14th Stanisław Staszic High School in Warsaw, beat 75 other hopefuls to the top spot. Last year, Chudzik finished second, said planetarium spokesperson Jarosław Juszkiewicz.

Other winners in this year’s finals included students from the northwestern city of Szczecin, the central-western city of Toruń, the northern port city of Gdynia and the southern city of Krosno.

The Olympiad is divided into three stages, with participants completing theoretical tasks and observations of the planetarium’s artificial sky in the final round.

The winning students will now represent Poland at the 18th International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics in Mumbai in August.

Poland’s Astronomy Olympiad has been running since 1957. This year 200 students took part in the first stage. Seventy-five participants qualified for the semifinals, and nineteen Olympians took part in the finals.
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