{"id":44173,"date":"2021-07-02T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T03:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=44173"},"modified":"2021-07-02T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:45:30","slug":"pinoy-kids-win-big-at-intl-programming-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2021\/07\/02\/pinoy-kids-win-big-at-intl-programming-tilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy kids win big at int\u2019l programming tilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Three Filipino high school kids just bagged three bronze medals in the most prestigious and most difficult competitive programming event in the world. Vincent Dela Cruz, Raphael Dylan Dalida, and Frederick Ivan Tan earned bronze medals at the recently-concluded 33rd International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), besting hundreds of contestants from over 80 countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IOI is one of the world\u2019s biggest science olympiads. The two-day competition\u2014hosted this year by Singapore from June 19 to 25, 2021, but held online due to the pandemic\u2014featured a gauntlet of programming challenges that tested competitors\u2019 coding skills and creativity, with problems involving everything from a dungeons game to mutating DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe IOI is a proving ground for some of the brightest upcoming minds who are in the best position to solve the world&#8217;s problems. Apart from coding skills, contestants also need to think on their feet and find solutions to anything that&#8217;s thrown at them,&#8221; said Marte Soliza, president of the National Olympiad in Informatics \u2013 Philippines (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/noi.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\">NOI.PH<\/a>), which put together and organized the Philippine contingent in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology \u2013 Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dela Cruz, a 12th-grader at the Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science, scored the highest from the Philippine contingent at 92nd place out of 351 competitors. Meanwhile, Dalida came in at 119th place and Tan finished in 136th place; the two are 10th- and 11th-grade pupils, respectively, at the Philippine Science High School \u2013 Main Campus. The fourth member of the Philippine team, Saint Jude Catholic School 12th-grader Steven Reyes, finished at a respectable 216th place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippine team leader, Vernon Gutierrez, was ecstatic over the victory. \u201cA huge shout-out to our students! The Philippine Team bagged the most medals in a year, despite the difficulties presented by the pandemic,\u201d he enthused. \u201cThis wouldn&#8217;t be possible without the help of the volunteers in our organization,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/noi.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOI.PH<\/a>, and the continuous support of DOST-SEI.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gutierrez and Soliza hope that the Philippines continues on this winning streak and look forward to bringing in more participants as well as trainers and volunteers. Interested parties may get in touch with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/noi.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\">NOI.PH<\/a>\u00a0via their website or email\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:ask@noi.ph\" target=\"_blank\">ask@noi.ph<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Dela Cruz, Raphael Dylan Dalida, and Frederick Ivan Tan earned bronze medals at the recently-concluded 33rd International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), besting hundreds of contestants from over 80 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1311,3533,6753],"class_list":["post-44173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-dost","tag-dost-ict","tag-dost-sei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44173","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=44173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}