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Medals from international math and science competitions keep on pouring for the Philippines as the country’s contingent in the 52nd International Mathematical Olympiad reaped three bronze medals, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said Saturday.

Henry Jefferson Morco of Chiang Kai Shek College and Vance Eldric Go and Carmela Antoinette Lao, both from St. Jude Catholic School, cornered three bronze medals, the highest medal haul of the Philippines since it joined the hardest mathematics competition in the world in 1988.

The team was headed by Dr. Julius Basilla and Glen Mackenzie Ong of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP).

The most number of medals that the Philippines got was in 1991 when Wyant Chan, Wilbin Chan and Jose Ernie Lope, who headed this year’s Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, netted two bronze medals and one honorable mention.

The team’s medal sweep also improved the Philippines’ standing in the IMO, jacking it up to 54 from 74 last year out of 101 countries which joined the competition.

Morco, who was also part of last year’s Philippine team to the IMO, obtained the highest score among the team members at 20, while Go and Lao got 19 and 17, respectively. Morco ranked 171st, Go at 186 and Lao at 222nd from the total 564 participants.

Kenneth Co from the Philippine Science High School Main Campus mustered 12 points and ranked 321st but was not given the honorable mentioned certificate as the IMO requires that one must have a perfect score of seven on any one question.

This is the third time that Lao joined the IMO. She got a bronze medal in 2009 and a silver medal in 2010, making history as the first Filipina to achieve both awards.

It is Morco’s second IMO where he got an honorable mention in the 2010 competition in Germany.

The Philippine contingent was picked from the 12th PMO, organized by the DOST-Science Education Institute (SEI) and the MSP.

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