Charles Barclay leads UK team to best result yet at 13th annual IOAA in Hungary
Green Templeton Associate Fellow Charles Barclay has led another UK team to success at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA).
Competing at the 13th annual IOAA in Hungary, the team of five students, aged 17 and 18 years old, won one gold medal, three silver medals, and one bronze medal.
The UK finished in fifth place out of 47 countries, coming behind Russia, China, United States, and Romania.
It marked the UK team’s best result yet across all five competitions entered so far.
Charles, who organizes the annual Astronomy For All Lectures at Green Templeton, also led teams to Indonesia in 2015, India in 2016, and China in 2018.
Started in 2006, the IOAA is an annual competition at the highest level for secondary school students around the world, who have to be under 20 years at the start of the competition.
Countries enter teams of five students and two team leaders. Selection for the UK team – the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (BAAO) team – takes place via competition papers, sat in schools, in the preceding year, until the final team of five students (and one reserve) are chosen at a training camp in Oxford.
The questions are aimed at years 12 and 13, but the timing of each Olympiad tends to affect which year group can actually compete.
Happy Friday!
We are ready and excited for a busy Michaelmas Term ahead.
Get ready for a discussion on leadership, diplomacy, philanthropy and Olympic sport. Plus a live fencing demonstration.🤺
On 28 October, we are bringing together four extraordinary women from the United States, United Kingdom and Pan-American sporting communities for the event: Bridging Nations, Leading Change.
The conversation will explore how sport can create change across borders, from women’s leadership and philanthropy to sports diplomacy and the Olympic movement.
With a welcome from Chief Executive of @TeamGB Jon Dutton OBE , alumna Selina Kaing (MBA, 2006) will moderate the panel`s discussion featuring:
🌎 Ana Irene Delgado, Permanent Representative of Panama to the Organization of American States
🏅 Sally Munday, Chief Executive of @UKSport
🤺 Georgina Usher MBE, Chief Executive of @BritishFencing
To register, go to the link in the comments
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Although we can not guarantee his attendance, Vincent encourages all new students to attend the college life fairs, taking place today from 14:00 to 15:30 in the marquee and Thursday 8 October from 10:30 to 12:00!
Meet college staff and representatives from student clubs!
The college is delighted to welcome a new Oxford PharmaGenesis DPhil Scholarship in Translational Health.
The scholarship has been established through an endowment gift of £1,660,000 from Oxford PharmaGenesis, now part of the Klick family, creating a permanent fund to support doctoral students undertaking outstanding postgraduate research in the field of translational health at Nuffield Department of Primary Care @oxford_uni
Yesterday our alumni celebrated the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong alongside @st_annescollege alumni at the two societies’ first co-organised event.
The group gathered at a Michelin-starred restaurant to mark the joyful occasion, make new connections and enjoy exquisite traditional food together.
It is wonderful to see the two college alumni societies bringing the wider Oxford community together for what Nathaniel Chan (MBA, 2016), co-chair of the Green Templeton College Hong Kong Alumni Society, described as ‘a memorable occasion’.
Plans are already taking shape for a hike and karaoke event in November, following an ‘impressive impromptu a cappella performance by one alumnus’ at the lunch.
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