5 Pinoy HS students in Amsterdam for Math Olympiad
Posted at 07/13/2011
MANILA, Philippines – Five Filipino high school students left the country on Tuesday to represent the Philippines at the 52nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) to be held on July 12 to 24 in Amsterdam.
They are: Kenneth T. Co (Philippine Science High School-Main Campus), Vance Eldric Go and Carmela Antoinette S. Lao (St. Jude Catholic School), Russelle Guadalupe (Valenzuela City Science High School), and Henry Jefferson C. Morco (Chiang Kai Shek College).
The students were handpicked from over 3,851 high school students who joined the Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO). They underwent further rigorous training through the Mathematical Olympiad Science Camp at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
The team is led by Dr. Julius Basilla and Glenn Ong, both from the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP).
In 2010, at the 51st IMO at Astana, Kazakhstan, the Philippine team won a silver medal (courtesy of Lao), and 2 honorable mentions (courtesy of Morco and Zheng Zheng Rong Wu of Zamboanga Chong Hua High School).
Lao holds the record of being the first Filipina (and 2nd Filipino) to win a silver medal at the IMO.
Since 2008, the Philippine team has been winning yearly at the IMO, considered the hardest math competition in the world.
Dr. Filma G. Brawner, director of the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), is confident of the Philippine team's chances of winning at the 2011 IMO.
“Victory, not only in terms of getting medals or honorable mentions at the prestigious mathematics competition, but more importantly, in opening doors for our students to challenge and prove to themselves that they are at par with, if not better than, their colleagues abroad,” Brawner said.
DOST-SEI and MSP oversees the PMO and the selection of the Philippine team members to the IMO.
They are: Kenneth T. Co (Philippine Science High School-Main Campus), Vance Eldric Go and Carmela Antoinette S. Lao (St. Jude Catholic School), Russelle Guadalupe (Valenzuela City Science High School), and Henry Jefferson C. Morco (Chiang Kai Shek College).
The students were handpicked from over 3,851 high school students who joined the Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO). They underwent further rigorous training through the Mathematical Olympiad Science Camp at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
The team is led by Dr. Julius Basilla and Glenn Ong, both from the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP).
In 2010, at the 51st IMO at Astana, Kazakhstan, the Philippine team won a silver medal (courtesy of Lao), and 2 honorable mentions (courtesy of Morco and Zheng Zheng Rong Wu of Zamboanga Chong Hua High School).
Lao holds the record of being the first Filipina (and 2nd Filipino) to win a silver medal at the IMO.
Since 2008, the Philippine team has been winning yearly at the IMO, considered the hardest math competition in the world.
Dr. Filma G. Brawner, director of the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), is confident of the Philippine team's chances of winning at the 2011 IMO.
“Victory, not only in terms of getting medals or honorable mentions at the prestigious mathematics competition, but more importantly, in opening doors for our students to challenge and prove to themselves that they are at par with, if not better than, their colleagues abroad,” Brawner said.
DOST-SEI and MSP oversees the PMO and the selection of the Philippine team members to the IMO.
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