{"id":2346,"date":"2025-08-04T06:09:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:09:35","slug":"mr-abdul-raffay-paracha-from-siddique-public-school-won-a-gold-medal-for-pakistan-at-the-international-biology-olympiad-held-in-the-philippines-from-july-20-to-27-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/mr-abdul-raffay-paracha-from-siddique-public-school-won-a-gold-medal-for-pakistan-at-the-international-biology-olympiad-held-in-the-philippines-from-july-20-to-27-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Abdul Raffay Paracha from Siddique Public School won a gold medal for Pakistan at the International Biology Olympiad, held in the Philippines from July 20 to 27, 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, Raffay met Chairman HEC Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, who congratulated him and encouraged all students to pursue scientific excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team participated under the STEM Careers Program, a joint initiative of HEC and PIEAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team was led by Dr. Asma Imran and Dr. Asma Rehman from NIBGE. Ayyan Aslam (GCU Lahore) received an honourable mention, while Arooj Fatima (Fusion College Shakargarh) and Sadia Zulfiqar (Siddique Public School) also represented Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSTC, conducted by PIEAS under PAEC, selects and trains students annually in physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics. Since 2001, Pakistan has won 140 medals at international science olympiads, with over 4,500 students trained through the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698652385-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2348 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698652385-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698652385-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698652385-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698652385-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698652385.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698654801-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2349\" style=\"width:338px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698654801-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698654801-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698654801-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1753698654801.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Raffay met Chairman HEC Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, who congratulated him and encouraged all students to pursue scientific excellence. The team participated under the STEM Careers Program, a joint initiative of HEC and PIEAS. The team was led by Dr. Asma Imran and Dr. Asma Rehman from NIBGE. Ayyan Aslam (GCU Lahore) received an honourable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stem.edu.pk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}