I am happy, it is part of my effort and preparation in recent times, she told Prensa Latina after learning the results of the contest, which was held in San José since last Monday.
Out of a total of 48 contestants from 14 countries, the 10th grade student from the Ernesto Guevara Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences from the central province of Villa Clara, achieved 38 points, out of the 42 to be achieved.
This competition, which is being held in person for the first time, has two days of exams in which six questions have to be answered, three for each day, Oliver explained.
She performed five perfect exercises out of the six proposed, explained Professor Amalia García, her trainer in Cuba and leader in this regional event.
An admirer of the student’s dedication, told Prensa Latina the Cuban ambassador in Costa Rica, Jorge Rodríguez and the consul Jorge Abel Rodríguez explained how they discovered Oliver’s talent for mathematics.
She said to have taken advantage of the time during the pandemic to deepen her expertise on the subject, she was in seventh grade and I presented her with exercises from old textbooks and her skills caught my attention. In several provincial competitions, she was inserted into groups of students of higher grades, the teacher narrated. He also highlighted the dedication of the Cuban Ministry of Education in preparing students with outstanding results in the exact sciences, not only in mathematics, but also in physics and chemistry. There are plans to have a headquarters in the capital for the best performance of it, she pointed out.
The student Oliver came to the competition in Costa Rica from the Central American Mathematical Olympiad, held at the end of July in El Salvador, in which she also obtained a silver medal.
The Costa Rican Mathematics Olympics commission, made up of the five state universities, the Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications and the Organizing Committee were in charge of carrying out the third edition of the Pan American Women’s Olympiad of Mathematics.
Contestants from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and the host country arrived at the event.
In its bases, it requires that participants must be citizens or residents of the country they represent, and be selected through the national Mathematical Olympiad or an equivalent selection process.
Those selected must be enrolled in full-time pre-university education, not have reached the age of 18 at the time of their participation in the contest, nor compete in another Pagmo event.
Nor could they have won a medal in the International Mathematics Olympiad, nor in the European Women’s Mathematics Olympiad.
The goal of the Pan American Olympiad is to provide more girls with the opportunity to perform mathematically on an international stage, and thus discover, encourage, and challenge talented young women in this science in all the countries of the Americas.
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