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Dear friends and participants of the International Biology Olympiad,
National Taiwan Normal University is really honored to be commissioned by Ministry of Education and financed by National Science Council of Taiwan, to host the 22nd International Biology Olympiad (IBO) in Taipei, Taiwan. We appreciate all your enthusiasms and participations during July 10th ~ 17th, 2011, and people from all kinds of fields for their cares and supports.
As the Chair Person of organizing committee IBO2011, firstly I would like to show my deeply respects to all the committee members. After 2 years of learning, planning and educational training for the staff team, I present my thankfulness to all the staff crews. Each team did their best to make this event more thoroughly, and they were prepared to adapt different situations. With the beginning of IBO 2011, they stuck to their positions and gave out all their efforts only to hope our guests could feel the completions from their sweats. Applauds at the closing ceremony given to the award winners, moreover, these applauds were dedicated to all the participants, and also encouragements to our staff crews. There were mouthwatering dishes at the farewell banquet, along with the recollections during the event swallowed down to taste the memories.
It is the host’s responsibility to keep all examinations standardized and thus to ensure that the competition is fair. This has been the spirit of IBO activities since the start. We did our best to meet this goal. As Poon has mentioned, all the participating students are winners. Not only did many of them win medals, but most importantly, all of them got a chance to establish new friendships.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to our respectable guests from all over the world. We tried our best to introduce Taiwan to you. You got the chance to witness Taiwanese beautiful nature, traditional culture and hospitality of local people. Please, excuse any mistakes that happened during the IBO event. We believe that after a careful revision we can learn from these in order to make improvement in the future.
Reaching for the medals is not the only goal we try to fulfill in our contest. We sincerely hope that all of you gained valuable experience and found new friends. Although IBO 2011 has ended, but let’s hope that we will meet again in the near future, with bright smiles on our faces!
Yung-ta Chang
The 22nd International Biology Olympiad Organizing Committee Chair Person
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