Students of Richmond Park College from Bihać won one gold and four silver medals at the prestigious science Olympiad IFEST in Tunisia, in competition from 40 countries and more than 250 projects.
The gold medal was won by Harun Ćufurović and Ajna Pečenković for the GreenSpark project. Silver medals were won by Ema Ćoralić with the Leutect project, Hana Halilagić with the Pump It Up project, Ines Hasanagić and Adna Muranović with the Beetmia project, and Lamija Kurić and Dženana Kurtalić with the Beautiful smile starts with healthy teeth project.
Professor Belma Vatić worked with a hardworking team of students.
“Really good news comes to us from faraway Tunisia. Our hard-working students with their teacher Belma Vatić managed to win one gold and four silver medals in strong competition from over 40 countries with 250 projects in this big international competition. We are proud and happy, and we look forward to it here at school with enthusiasm, and the return is planned for Monday. In a time like this, such successes mean a lot both for our school and for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was nice to see them with the flag of our country flying among other flags.” , said Nermin Efendic, director of Richmond Park College Bihać.
The success of the students from Bihać is an indication that in Bosnia and Herzegovina and its westernmost part, the Una-Sana Canton, there are young and talented people who possess great intellectual potential, Fena news agency writes.