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- Filipinos win big at the recent Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad in Greece
- Students bags the silver and bronze medals from the said competition
Three Filipino students bag medals in the 22nd Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad in Rhodes, Greece last June 19 to 24.
The students, namely Daryll Carlsten Ko from St. Stephen’s High School and Sean Eugene Chua from Xavier School received silver medals, while Deanne Gabrielle Algenio from Makati Science High School got bronze.
The president of the Mathematics Trainers Guide in the Philippines congratulated the three for the achievement they’ve brought the country.
“We congratulate our three contestants for winning medals in the math competition. This is another honor for our country.”
The three winners recalled the challenges that they faced during the competition. According to Ko, it was a mixture of handleable and challenging problems with some requiring a direct flow of logic while others needed very specific observations.
“It was not easy to think of ideas that could help us make progress in solving each problem,”
Chua said that even if the problems were straightforward, they were designed to be challenging for the contestants to really think outside of the box and pushed their limit.
On the other hand, Algenio said that the competition was “Challenging, brain provoking, mind-boggling problems, but nothing we Pinoy mathletes cannot hurdle.”
The other participating countries in the competition are Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Republic of Moldova, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.
