The Philippines Wins its Second Gold in the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad

Congratulations to our Filipino students who participated in the XXX Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad (APMO) for winning 1 Gold award – our country’s second in the APMO, 2 Silver awards, 4 Bronze awards, and 3 Honorable Mention awards. Their performance puts the Philippines at Rank 13 out of 39 participating countries in this year’s competition. The country’s rank last year was 11.

Our awardees are the following students:

1. Kyle Patrick Dulay, Philipppine Science High School – Main Campus, – GOLD
2. Albert John Patupat, De La Salle University Integrated School – SILVER
3. Andres Rico Gonzales III, Colegio de San Juan de Letran – SILVER
4. Sean Anderson Ty, Zamboanga Chong Hua High School – BRONZE
5. Stefan Marcus Ong, Saint Jude Catholic School – BRONZE
6. Carl Joshua Quines, Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science – BRONZE
7. Shaquille Wyan Que, Grace Christian College – BRONZE
8. Steven Reyes, Saint Jude Catholic School – HONORABLE MENTION
9. Emmanuel Osbert Cajayon, Emilio Aguinaldo College – HONORABLE MENTION
10. Steven John Wang, Uno High School – HONORABLE MENTION

The APMO is an annual regional mathematics competition for high school students. Contestants have to hurdle a four-hour paper consisting of five original problems. Unlike the International Mathematical Olympiad, this competition is administered locally by organizers from participating countries from the Asian Pacific Region. While there is no limit on the number of local participants who can take the exam, only the top 10 students from each country are considered for the official scores. Even though some of our top 10 students had scores above the award cutoffs, there is a cap on the number of awards per country. The overall results are posted in http://www.apmo-official.org/2018/ .

The organizer for the Philippines is the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP). The IMO Training Team invited the National Finalists of the 20^th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad to take the APMO last March 13, 2018, at the Institute of Mathematics, University of the Philippines – Diliman.