Come to the United States at the age of nine Won a gold medal in the International Chemistry Olympiad

Came to the United States at the age of nine Won a gold medal in the International Chemistry Olympiad A nine-year-old boy who did not know 26 letters in English now represents the United States in the International Chemistry Olympiad, Whit...

He came to the United States at the age of nine and won the gold medal in the International Chemistry Olympiad. A nine-year-old boy who did not know 26 English letters now represents the United States in the International Chemistry Olympiad. Joe Tung of Whitney High School has concluded his high school career and will go to Yale University to study biochemistry and economics. This is the second California high school student to win a gold medal in this event in ten years. A total of four students represented the United States in the Chemistry Olympiad held recently in Türkiye. In addition to Dong Guanheng's gold medal, the other three won one gold and two silver medals, which was the best performance of the American team since 2001. Dong Guanheng was also selected as the player representative to deliver a speech at the opening ceremony. In an interview, Dong Guanheng said that he immigrated to the United States from Taiwan at the age of nine and attended an elementary school in Changdi. He was the only Asian in the class. His English was laughed at by the children and he could not understand it in class. Later, his mother read his English and history lessons and then translated them to him. After two months, Dong Guanheng finally adapted to the environment and made many friends. Dong Guanheng said that he has been fond of magic performances since he was a child. In a chemistry class in the tenth grade, the teacher performed an experiment that looked like magic, which made his interest in chemistry out of control. During the summer vacations of the tenth and eleventh grade, he went to Harvard Medical School for an internship, helping his professor track the path of a cancer-causing protein and publishing a paper. This project made him a semifinalist in the Siemens Research Competition and the Intel Science Competition. Not only is Dong Guanheng good in chemistry, he is also excellent in other subjects, with perfect scores in GPA, SAT, ACT and 12 AP courses. As early as January, Yale University invited him to visit the school and arranged for lunch with the school's Nobel Prize-winning chemistry professor. Although I later received admission letters from prestigious schools such as Stanford and MIT, I was determined to go to Yale.