Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO) winners. (DOST-SEI)
The Department of Science and Technology’s Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) extended its felicitations to Sanchez who earned the PMO’s top title for three consecutive years after besting over two dozen other finalists.
“Bryce’s achievement is all the more notable and exemplary given the challenges that everyone most especially students like him and his fellow competitors have had to face over the past year,” DOST SEI Director Josette Biyo said in a statement.
The DOST-SEI also congratulated Steven Reyes of Saint Jude Catholic School and Raphael Dylan Dalida of Philippine Science High School – Main Campus, who are both Grade 12 students, for winning first and second runners-up at the PMO.
Ten Alachua County Public Schools students qualified this year for the United States of America Physics Olympiad (USAPhO) out of just 13 public and private high school students statewide. Eight students attend Buchholz High School, which had the third-highest number of qualifiers in the nation this year, and two Eastside High School students also qualified.
To qualify for the USAPhO, the students were among top scorers in the nation on a challenging exam called the F=ma, a 75-minute test with 25 questions focused on algebra-based mechanics. In the country, 333 of the highest-scoring students are now eligible to take another grueling exam covering a variety of physics-related topics, including mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity and nuclear physics.
A physics major at the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted has received two pieces of good news – acceptance letters from MIT and Princeton University in the US.
Top 10 People With the Highest IQ
Brains. They’re the heart of the head and the hands of the soul. Without them, we end up writing things like that last sentence. And as anyone who has ever logged on to the internet is aware, there is an enormous range in brain usage in society. Some put their brains to work, going on to cure diseases or launch spacecraft. Others let their brains quietly waste away in their skulls, going on to post in 4chan or enjoy Jeff Dunham. The former category, whose exceptional IQs propel them to greatness, enters a rarified air. This is where they debate and advance our age’s grand issues and where we get to debate who’s smarty pants are smarter. Here are ten such geniuses with ten of the world’s highest IQs today.
Caption: First row, left to right: Navid Azizan, Rodrigo Freitas, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Jack Hare. Second row, left to right: Samuel Hopkins, Michael Howland, Yoon Kim, Adrian Lozano-Duran, Kelly Metcalf Pate. Third row, left to right: Anand Natarajan, Jelena Notaros, Carlos Portela, Ashia Wilson, Sixian You.
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