Thats the Olympic spirit !

Quote from rufus_4000:
Naturally the Russian, the Chinese took these competitions very seriously, and the US university substantially less so. [/B]

Quote from cakulev:
So true. I used to participate in math an physics contest in high school some 15-20 years ago. Kids from Eastern Europe were having vastly superior results. So following Copernicus' logic, US science was lagging in the late 1980s ...![]()
Quote from cakulev:
So true. I used to participate in math an physics contest in high school some 15-20 years ago. Kids from Eastern Europe were having vastly superior results. So following Copernicus' logic, US science was lagging in the late 1980s ...![]()
Quote from dddooo:
The best and the brightest american kids don't want to become programmers, they want to become lawyers or stock brokers. Better yet they want to become executives, outsource programming jobs to Eastern Europe and India and make sure that next generations of americans are not interested in technical, computer and scientific careers either.
Quote from Copernicus:
i doubt these are the brightest kids talking strictly from an intellect standpoint.
Quote from Copernicus:
http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=school_avg_rating
top schools in the world
poland russia, 1 and 2
beating out Stanford and MIT