SJCS students top Math Olympiad

MANILA, Philippines - Two young students from St. Jude Catholic School (SJCS) got top scores and shone in the Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO) 2014 held to select a pool of 20 students from which the country will get their six delegates to the 2014 International Math Olympiad to be held in South Africa this coming July. Matthew Tan was declared the national champion during the awarding ceremony of the 16th PMO held at the De la Salle University, Manila last Saturday night. Adrian Reginald Sy, also of SJCS, who was a bronze medalist in last year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), on the other hand, was declared the 1st runner up in the math tests conducted during the PMO. Tan and Sy took home P15,000 and P10,000, respectively, as well as medals and trophies. Their coach, Manuel Tanpoco, won a total of P8,000 cash prize. Finishing third was John Thomas Chuatak of St. Stephen’s High School who won P5,000 a medal and a trophy. All three students are wards of the Mathematics Trainers Guild-Philippines.