Two GCPS Students Advance to Semifinals for U.S. Physics Team

Two Gwinnett County Public Schools students have advanced to the semifinals for the United States Physics team.

Mike Wang of and Anchen Yao of Parkview High School competed with 4,500 students trying to solve a Fnet=ma physics problem.

Based on those scores, 406 students were named semifinalists and tapped for the second round of testing.

These two students are among just five semifinalists from Georgia. The semifinalists will participate in a test this month to determine the 20 members of the U.S. Physics Team, which will be announced in April.

The team members will take part in a training camp in May, which will determine the five students and one alternate who will represent the U.S. at the International Physics Olympiad in Denmark this summer.