The Philippine Team, composed of 350
elementary and secondary students from Grades 1 to 10 bagged 34 gold, 74 silver
and 132 bronze medals in the recently concluded International Mathematics
Wizard Challenge held last July 20-24 in Bangkok Thailand. A total of 868
students from Hongkong, Macau, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Thailand and China
participated in the competition.
One of the delegates of the Philippine Team
is Io Aristotle Nikolai Prudencio Calica, a grade two pupil of Balanga
Elementary School who was awarded a Silver Prize. Winning a Silver medal means
competing against thousands of Grade 1 and 2 pupils, from almost 3,000 school
members and 61 training centers nationwide, who participated in the series of
rigid trainings and screenings of the Mathematics Trainers Guild of the
Philippines (MTG Philippines).
Filipino delegates including Io
underwent a series of rigid trainings and screenings under the tutelage of the
MTG Philippines. As a member of the Youngster Group which is composed of Grades
1 and 2 pupils, he was a topscorer in the Mathematical Challenge for Filipino
Kids Training Program (MCFKTP), the first phase of the training program,
wherein thousands of students from almost 3,000 schools all over the country
attended a series of math training sessions. Io then proceeded to the second
phase of the program - the Young
Mathematicians In-house Intensive Training Program (YMIITP) which is a four-day intensive
training program wherein the MCFKTP top scorers are invited to attend and are
given lectures and a battery of quizzes and examinations to select the qualifiers
who will represent the country in various international competitions. Io was
one of the sixty-eight (68) Grade 1 and 2 qualifiers from the Youngster Group
who were selected out of a total of 150 trainees from NCR and Northern Luzon
and more 100 trainees from Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
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