{"id":43100,"date":"2021-05-06T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T08:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=43100"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T08:07:56","slug":"math-whiz-clinches-three-peat-win-at-23rd-pmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2021\/05\/06\/math-whiz-clinches-three-peat-win-at-23rd-pmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Math whiz clinches three-peat win at 23rd PMO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Grade 12 student Bryce Ainsley Sanchez of Grace Christian College bested over two dozen other finalists at the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO) held online last March 19 to 20, earning the top title for the third year in a row.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The honor was hard-earned: first runner up Steven Reyes of Saint Jude Catholic School, also a Grade 12 student, is a consistent national finalist in previous PMOs as well as a silver medalist in the International Physics Olympiad in 2018 and 2019. Meanwhile, the second runner up, Grade 10 student Raphael Dylan Dalida of Philippine Science High School \u2013 Main Campus, was the first runner up in last year\u2019s PMO as well as a bronze medalist alongside Sanchez at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) the same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBryce\u2019s achievement is all the more notable and exemplary given the challenges that everyone\u2014most especially students like him and his fellow competitors\u2014have had to face over the past year,\u201d said DOST Science Education Institute Director Josette Biyo. \u201cThey all truly deserve to be called Filipino Olympians,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMathematics truly knows no bounds, and our students and competitors are a living testament to this,\u201d enjoined Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP) president Emmanuel Cabral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PMO is a long-standing tradition for the MSP, which has been organizing the Olympiad as an annual proving ground for some of the country\u2019s brightest young minds for almost four decades. The competition is the Philippines\u2019 most prestigious nationwide mathematics competition for secondary school students, who compete for the honor of representing the nation at the annual IMO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 12 student Bryce Ainsley Sanchez of Grace Christian College bested over two dozen other finalists at the 23rd Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO) held online last March 19 to 20, earning the top title for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1311,6753],"class_list":["post-43100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-dost","tag-dost-sei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}