Eight Cuban students won medals at the XV Ibero-American Informatics Olympiad, which took place online in Peru.
The delegation, consisting of 15 pre-university students, won a total of six silver medals, two bronze medals, and two honorable mentions.
Those results placed Cuba in fourth place in the competition, in which 166 young people from 16 countries participated. The top three positions were held by Brazil, Mexico, and Spain.
Leonardo Cardona, a professor at the Jose Maceo Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences in Guantanamo, explained to the Citizen Portal of Havana that the test took place on June 22 and 23.
The exam consisted of solving in five hours four algorithmic problems, in which different programming topics subdivided into subtasks can arise. The same problem can have several solution algorithms for a certain range of data.
The Cuban team was made up of: Camilo Triana Barata, Maité Morales Carreras, Marcos Antonio Escandón García, and Manuel Alejandro Plana Méndez, from Villa Clara; Adrián Pacheco Rubio, Christian Ernesto Lugo Dorta, César Raúl Luís González, and Reinier García Montes de Oca, from Matanzas; Francis José Rodríguez Ronda, Sergio Jorge Montero López, and Zaniel García Orihuela, from Las Tunas; Luis Felipe Hernández Álvarez, from Camagüey; Karen A. Zaldívar, from Holguín; and Christopher Jesús Constantin Pérez, from Santiago de Cuba.
The boys surpassed the results of 2023, when Cuba won a silver medal, five bronzes, and an equal number of mentions.
Cardona described the results as admirable and praised the performance of the students, some of whom even competed while sick and still delivered a great performance. He also congratulated their respective provincial coaches.
The Villa Clara residents Camilo Triana Barata, Marco Antonio Escandón García, and Maite Morales Carreras, along with Francis José Rodríguez Ronda from Las Tunas, make up the team that will compete in the International Olympiad, which will take place in Egypt from September 1 to 9.
According to the teacher, Cuba has been competing in the Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiads since 1998, only skipping the one in 2010. Out of a total of 257 participants, 141 medals have been obtained: 21 gold, 43 silver, and 77 bronze.
On this occasion, the boys participated from the Tomás López Jiménez Laboratory at the University of Computer Science (UCI).
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