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The European Science Olympiad is a team competition for European second level school science students who are younger than 16 years old. The purpose of the competition was to promote and encourage a multidisciplinary involving biology, chemistry, and physics. The study done was qualitative, Task B of Experiment I required the students to construct the Graetzel cell, while Task B of Experiment II required the students to set up the apparatus to monitor the renaturation of casein, which included the alignment of a light source and light probe. I believe their biggest challenge was preparing their final documents for their experiments which were to be translated into the language of each of the competing countries because the language could not be ambiguous. I’m happy to see that Science Olympiad is becoming popular globally, which means that younger individuals will become interested in science.

O'Kennedy, R., & Burke, M. (2005). The first eu science olympiad (euso): A model for. Journal of Biological Education, 39(2), 58-61.