Welcome
We hope you will find this site informative, up to date, relevant, and that it will answer all your questions regarding the NZIBO and its activities. If you have any questions please contact the appropriate committee member, as listed on the NZIBO Committee Page.
The function of this front page is to highlight up coming initiatives, bring to your attention things of which we are proud and to generally provide a snapshot of activities that have or are about to take place. It is our intention to update this front page regularly.
Register to participate in the 2012/3 NZIBO
The 2013 Olympiad will be held in Switzerland, and New Zealand’s International Biology Olympiad (NZIBO) committee will again be entering a team.
All students are encouraged to register for this competition. Students attending the IBO in July 2013 must be:
(1) under the age of 20
(2) in full time attendance at a secondary school in NZ
(3) have attended school in NZ for at least two years.
There is a registration fee of $30 per student. Students from schools that have not participated previously will be able to register for half price at $15 per student.
Read more on the registration process here.
Student all set for Biology Olympiad
This story is from the Hamilton Press of 9 May 2012. It's about SuMin Yoon, one of the students selected to represent New Zealand at the 2012 International Biology Olympiad in Singapore.
"Dissections and theory exams took up half of SuMin Yoon's Easter hoildays, but it was all worth it when she was named one of four students to represent New Zealand at the International Biology Olympiad in Singapore in July. Her selection comes after she and 21 other hopefuls were put through a week-long training camp...." Read the full story here.
We're proud as punch - Angela Sharples wins the Prime Minister's Science Teachers Prize
Angela is chairperson of New Zealand International Biology Olympiad (NZIBO), which provides a year-long training and selection programme for gifted and talented biology students from throughout New Zealand. In the past six years, 1,473 students have participated, 354 taught by Angela and her team online and 102 in 10-day residential training camps. New Zealand will host the International Biology Olympiad in July 2014 and, as chairperson, Angela will be at the forefront of raising $2 million to run the event which involves 65 countries. Read the full story here.
New Zealand teams brings home gold
The New Zealand team of Benjamin Bai, Richard Chou, Vicky Tai and Jack Zhou are returning home from Taiwan, bringing with them a hat trick of medals won at the prestigious 22nd International Biology Olympiad. This competition pits the top four young biologists from 59 countries against each other, in an intense round of practical assessments and theory examinations.
A Bronze medal was won by Richard Chou and a Silver medal by Benjamin Bai. Jack Zhou won a Gold medal. New Zealand is now ranked 21st in the world, New Zealand’s highest ever world ranking at the Biology Olympiad and our first Gold. It is an outstanding achievement for these young biologists. It was a fitting reward for their diligence, dedication and sheer hard work over the last year. Team Leader, Dr Angela Sharples said, "We should all be proud of the achievement of this New Zealand team. They have proved themselves to be amongst the world's best."
Read the announcement on the Royal Society of New Zealand website. The Story that ran in the Auckland Eastern Courier. The Story from Times Online.
Budding Biologists are going for Gold
A story from Auckland's Eastern Courier...
Studying hard has paid off for Benjamin Bai and Richard Chou. The Macleans College students jet off to Taiwan to represent New Zealand at the 22nd International Biology Olympiad in July. They will be part of a team of four New Zealand students at the competition. The pair took part in a gruelling eight-day training and selection camp before being chosen for the team. "We took the entrance exam to get into the tutorials last year," Benjamin says. "There was another selection exam to get into the camp, another two exams at the camp and finally the best were chosen to be on the team." Read the full story here......
University of Waikato to host IBO 2014
The University of Waikato has signed a Memorandum of Agreement which will see the University host the 2014 25th International Biology Olympiad, exposing the University to hundreds of international students and their support groups, over a period of a week. This prestigious international competition is fiercely contested by around 300 top senior secondary school biology students from nearly 60 countries. The talented contestant sit both practical and theory examinations of a standard that would challenge many first-year undergraduates Read the full story here.
NZIBO NZ representative wins scholarship to Princeton
Life is about to change for 18-year-old Jack Zhou. He's been awarded a full scholarship to the prestigious university in the United States worth US$164,000. Jack lives in Bucklands Beach and went to Macleans Primary, Bucklands Beach Intermediate, Macleans College and for the past two years Auckland International College in central Auckland where he is head boy . Read more here... Jack achieved a bronze medal for New Zealand at the IBO in 2010 held in South Korea. Jack will again represent New Zealand in Taiwan in 2011. Fingers crossed...
NZIBO 2013
Now's the time to start thinking about the team to represent New Zealand at the 2013 International Biology Olympiad in Switzerland 14 to 21 July 2013. Important dates for the diary are:
| Registrations close for the national entrance exam | 1 August 2012 |
| National entrance examination | Wednesday 8 August 2012 |
| Tutorial programme begins | 1 October 2012 |
| Camp Selection Exam | Wednesday 27 February 2013 |
| Practical Training Camp | April 2013 |
| 2012 IBO in Switzerland | 14 to 21 July 2013 |
We encourage you to register for the national entrance exam. See here.
International Biology Olympiad
More on the IBO can be found here.
Archived material from 2011.
Can be found here.
