More than 20,000 Iranian students from all over the country will participate in a competition for enter the second round of Iranian Biology Olympiad tomorrow morning. The competition will be started at 09:00 am in all cities, towns and many villages across the country. I think the competition is going to be a little bit exhausted, as only high ranking students have been eligible to participate. This will be a contest for gifted students of Iran.

Dr. Jan Stoklasa the main author of the first International Biology Olympiad passed away.

He was one of dedicated persons working with IBO. Let's commemorate him. We have not forgotten his kind smile he often carried.

tsunami

We are still in obscure regarding our IBO colleague at the beginning of The New Year 2005, particularly our dear colleagues in tsunami affected countries. We have received no news from their side, except for a short preliminary message from Dr. Agus Dana Permana our colleague in Indonesia. This message is perhaps can activate our colleages to report about the effect of disaster.

Thank to Dr. Soucup for the contribution to the relief, done on behalf of IBO Coordinating Center.