Cuban students win medals in the Ibero-American Physics Olympiad

Asilver medal, another ofbronze and onehonorable mention was the harvest of thecuban students at the XXVIII Ibero-American Physics Olympiad, organized by Costa Rica.

Carlos Daniel Chaviano Gonzalez, student of the Carlos Marx Vocational Pre-University Institute in Exact Sciences (IPVCE), of Matanzas,won silver medal in the competition, developed in the virtual synchronous modality, according to theofficial event site.

In the contest held from September 23 to 30,José Alejandro Romero Gil, from the IPVCE Luis Urquiza Jorge of Las Tunas, obtainedbronze medal.

Another student from Las Tunas,Adrián Arsenio Garcés Jiménez, also from IPVCE Luis Urquiza Jorge, receivedhonorable mention.

For Cuba, four young people participated in the competition, who participated from the University of Havana, said theMinistry of Education.

In the Olympiad, pre-university students under 18 years of age from 16 Latin American countries, plus Spain and Portugal, competed, who had to pass a theoretical test and an experimental test, with a maximum duration of five hours.

The objectives of the contest are “to stimulate the study of physics and the development of young talents, as well as to promote the holding of national competitions that contribute to supporting talent and scientific initiative among youth.”

In past months, otherscuban students They also won medals in Olympics in various disciplines.

At the beginning of September, Karla Yisel Ramírez Garcell, from the IPVCE Vladimir Ilich Lenin, from Havana, and Ricardo Miguel Molano Domínguez, from the IPVCE Mártires de Humboldt 7 from Artemisa,They won bronze medals at the XXXVIII Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiad (IOM), held in Brazil.

Mario Alejandro Pavón Díaz and Patricia Pérez Aguilar won gold medals in the16th Ibero-American Biology Olympiad (OIAB) which was held in Spain also that month.

Two Cuban teenagers, Diego Armando Martínez Ramírez (Sancti Spíritus) and Royman Ramos Pérez (Villa Clara) obtainedgold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Chemistry Olympiad (OCACQ), held in El Salvador.

In July, César Endris Acosta Martínez and Erick Jordan Valdés Abreu achievedbronze medals at the 55th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO 2023), carried out in Switzerland.

Meanwhile, Ián David Lorenzo García and Dalia Oliver Ballesteros receivedsilver medal in the XXV Mathematical Olympiad of Central America and the Caribbean (OMCC), in El Salvador.