Samantha Amante from Colegio San Agustin in Bi?an, Laguna won in the high school division while Jo Dee Salise from Rainbow of Angels Learning Center in Butuan City were declared champions for school year 2013-2014.
Pres. Aquino gave the assurance during the 46th commencement exercises and 50th anniversary of the school on Wednesday. Unlike all other science high schools in the country which are under the Department of Education, the PSHS ? known to students and the public as ?Pisay? ? is under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
The Philippines joined the 17th Clock Tower School International Mathematics Contest, held from March 20 to 23 in the capital city of Ramnicu Valcea in Valcea, Romania.
From the total number of the 2014 passers, 3,473 who belong to economically disadvantaged families qualified under the RA 7687 Scholarship grants, while 509 students who topped the examination qualified under the DOST-SEI Merit Scholarship Program.
The flagship Diliman campus of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) recently opened the first smart classroom in the country courtesy of a P10-million grant by Korean technology titan Samsung.
The number of medals won by the Philippines from international science and mathematics competitions reached 447 in 2013, setting a new mark in Philippine history. The previous record was 308 in 2012.
The top three winners, along with the 17 other PMO finalists, will get the chance to compete in the 55th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) to be held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 3-13, 2014.
After wiping out the classroom backlog, the government should focus on math and science education, an area where it grapples with low test scores, lack of science laboratories, and poor global ranking.
Dubbed ?Program the Future: The Accenture Technology Campus Challenge?, the new university student competition was launched in December as a venue where IT, computer science, and engineering students can design and develop mobile applications and solutions that can help improve the country?s education system.
