The Philippines Wins Awards in the 31st Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad

Congratulations to our Filipino contestants who participated in the XXXI Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad (APMO) for winning 2 Silver awards, 3 Bronze awards, and 5 Honorable Mention awards. Their performance put the country at rank 20 among 41 countries that participated this year.

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Our awardees are the following students:

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1. Sean Anderson Ty (Zamboanga Chong Hua High School) – SILVER

2. Andres Rico Gonzales III (De La Salle University Integrated School) – SILVER

3. Steven Reyes (Saint Jude Catholic School) – BRONZE

4. Julian Raymund Yu (British School Manila) – BRONZE

5. Immanuel Josiah Balete (St. Stephen’s High School) – BRONZE

6. Bryce Ainsley Sanchez (Grace Christian College) – HONORABLE MENTION

7. Dan Alden Baterisna (De La Salle University Integrated School) – HONORABLE MENTION

8. Dion Stephan Ong (Ateneo de Manila Senior High School) – HONORABLE MENTION

9. Vincent Dela Cruz (Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science) – HONORABLE MENTION

10. Ryan Mark Shao (Xavier School) – HONORABLE MENTION

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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/year_report/2019. Problems and solutions are also available in the APMO webpage.

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The organizer for the Philippines is the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP). The IMO Training Team invited the National Finalists of the 21th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad to take the APMO last March 12, 2019, at the Institute of Mathematics, University of the Philippines – Diliman.