On July 21, the 30th International Biology Olympiad (IBO) for high school students ended. All four players from the Chinese team won gold medals. Peng Lingfeng from the High School Affiliated to Hunan Normal University ranked first in theory, experiment, and overall score. Perfectly achieved "No. 1 in the world". After winning the gold medal, Peng Lingfeng said that what he wanted to do most was to return to the group of the biology competition and play with his own flowers and plants.
A big boy who loves to grow flowers and fish
Although Peng Lingfeng is 1.82 meters tall, he has a delicate mind. The corridors and indoor incubators of the Biology Competition Group of the High School Affiliated to Hunan Normal University are filled with plants planted by Peng Lingfeng. Yellow marigolds and red zinnias are vying to bloom, and the incubators are full of various plants. Sometimes, he would catch some beautiful small insects and put them in his own specimen bottles. Over the past two years, he had accumulated several bottles of insects. For a while, he also raised tropical fish in the biology group. The colorful fish brought a lot of happiness to his teammates who were nervous about studying.
Because of his love for biology, Peng Lingfeng, who entered the first year of high school, tried to get involved in biology competitions, but he did not expect to receive surprises along the way. In May 2018, less than a year after he came into contact with biology competitions, he was selected for the Hunan Provincial Team as a freshman in high school; in August, he overcame all senior students in the national biology competition finals and won first place in the country. , and recommended Tsinghua University ; in February this year, the second year of high school Peng Lingfeng, who is a grade 1 student, was selected into the Biology Olympiad national team with the first place in the selection examination and became the youngest member of the team; in July this year, he won the 30th International Middle School Biology Competition with the world's first score. Olympic Games (IBO) gold medal, invincible.
Ranked first in all competitions
Although in the eyes of others, Peng Lingfeng is the "iron number one", getting this gold medal is also thrilling. At the beginning of the experimental examination, he found that his blood glucose meter was broken. After many communications with the staff, he finally got a working instrument after changing three blood glucose meters. At this time, the only test strips that could be used were 5 sticks. In the end, the calm Peng Lingfeng still completed the experiment perfectly.
Another zoology experiment encountered difficulties. It tested vertebrates for the first time, which caught all the contestants off guard. "The examiner gave us a frozen chicken neck and wings, and asked us to separate the muscles one by one and describe the positions where they are attached to the bones." This question made all the contestants complain, but Peng Lingfeng still relied on his solid biology With excellent experimental skills, he completed the exam calmly, and the final total experimental score ranked first among all contestants.
No matter how busy you are, you must keep reading and writing
Zhu Changming is Peng Lingfeng’s head coach and class teacher. In his eyes, Peng Lingfeng has had a strong interest in biology since junior high school and likes to delve into biological-related issues in life. After entering high school, Peng Lingfeng turned his love for biology into a lasting motivation for studying biology competitions. He has strong logical thinking and understanding abilities and is highly self-disciplined. He has high learning efficiency and his progress is significantly faster than other students. So Teacher Zhu formulated a unique study plan for him, and he was able to complete it successfully every time. He completed more than 10 university textbooks in just 8 months, and completed all competition content in less than a year. At the same time, he did not slack off in his comprehensive studies, and his total score in all the first-year high school exams ranked second in his grade.
"In class, he must be one of the most serious and attentive students. He can follow the teacher's thinking and think about problems, and often actively discuss and communicate with the teacher after class." Teacher Zhu feels that Peng Lingfeng's study habits have always been very good.
Many students who participate in competitions will focus all their energy on the competition and abandon other subjects. Chinese teacher Xie Lanping said that Peng Lingfeng was still able to persist in extracurricular reading and writing during the intense preparation for the Olympiad, and often met with teachers to review essays and exchange reading experiences. He often brings a small notebook with him. When some important points are discussed, he will write them down quickly and carefully.
Peng Lingfeng has strong self-control, so Teacher Zhu allowed him to use his mobile phone to check information every day.Faced with such an attractive object, Peng Lingfeng can use his mobile phone at a fixed time every day, only to search for information and read current events. Never indulge in online novels, videos, games, chat software, etc. Because of this, when the professor asked questions about gene editing, monkey cloning, cancer immunotherapy, Zhai Tianlin's paper falsification, China's rural population policy, and his views on independent enrollment in colleges and universities during the interview with the national biology team, he was able to explain his unique ideas. The insights were fully affirmed by the professors.
The flowers and plants planted by Peng Lingfeng
What is admirable is that Peng Lingfeng studied biology competition not as a stepping stone to enter the ideal university, but because of his sincere love for biology. This also strengthened his ambition to engage in biological research and strive for human science. At the national finals, Tsinghua and Peking University gave him a variety of choices, but he chose the Tsinghua Academy of Biological Sciences without hesitation, hoping that he would engage in biological research in the future.
The High School Affiliated to Hunan Normal University has won 32 gold medals, ranking first in the country.
This is the second International Olympiad gold medal this year after Chen Junhao won the gold medal in the 50th International Physics Olympiad on July 15.
So far, students from the Middle School Affiliated to Hunan Normal University have won a total of 32 gold medals (including 8 in mathematics, 9 in chemistry, 8 in physics, 6 in biology, and geography) in the middle school student Olympiads in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, information, and geography. 1), 10 silver medals (including 4 in mathematics, 3 in chemistry, 2 in biology, and 1 in geography) and 11 Asian gold medals (including 10 in physics and 1 in information). The total number of gold medals and medals ranks first in the country!
The High School Affiliated to Hunan Normal University has always attached great importance to the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, providing strong support and broad development space for middle school students who are interested in learning, capable of learning, have expertise in learning, and have comprehensive qualities in subject competitions. Xie Yonghong, principal of the High School Affiliated to Hunan Normal University, said that as a century-old prestigious school, the school has always had the mission of cultivating top talents for the country and society, focusing on the cultivation of top innovative talents. Students have three outstanding qualities: "interest, concentration, and persistence." Sustained excellent performance in a series of middle school student Olympiads has earned the school the reputation of "the cradle of gold medals."
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Shen Hao correspondent Su Xiaoling Changsha report
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