Chinmay Talegaonkar, a student of Resonance’s pre-foundation career care programme division has made the country proud by winning a silver medal in the recently organised 10th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) at Pune, India. Talegaonkar was one of the team members amongst the two teams of India who represented India at the international level. India hosted the event for the first time; total 38 countries participated in the event, total 220 students took part in the event. India stood second in the event by winning total 12 medals (9 gold and 3 silver). Total 27 gold medals, 45 silver medals and 73 bronze medals were awarded to the participants. The competition had three stages objective, theoretical and practical.
Chinmay is a NTSE scholar and has also qualified in the Indian National Astronomy (Jr.) Olympiad last year. This year had been special as students of Resonance brought laurels to the nation by winning total five medals for India at international level. The four other medalists from Resonance are Parth Shah (gold medal in 45th International Chemistry Olympiad), Yash Gupta (silver medal in the 44th International Physics Olympiad), Bhavya Choudhary (gold medal in 7th International Junior Astronomy Olympiad Jr.) and Charles Ranjan (gold medal in 7th International Junior Astronomy Olympiad Jr.). All the students except Charles are from the yearlong classroom contact programmes of Resonance and Charles from short-term classroom programmes.