Young Cuban wins bronze medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics.

The bronze medalist is an eleventh-grade student at the Ernesto Guevara Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences in Villa Clara.

Olimpiada de Informática. Cubanos participantes © Juventud Técnica y Facebook/Frank Hernández
Olympiad of Informatics. Cuban participantsPhoto © Juventud Técnica and Facebook/Frank Hernández

A Cuban student won the bronze medal at the 36th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2024), which is being held until next Sunday in the city of Alexandria, Egypt.

Marco Antonio Escandón García, an eleventh-grade student at the Ernesto Guevara Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE) in Villa Clara, won third place in the contest, according to the newspaper Vanguardia.

Facebook Capture/Vanguardia de Cuba

This represents Marco Antonio's second participation in an event of this kind, which brings together the best secondary and pre-university students worldwide in Programming. Last year, he was present at the event held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, although he did not win any medals.

The IOI 2024 is organized and hosted by the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Alexandria. The competition has the support of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the Library of Alexandria.

The competition entails several evaluations. Participants must solve a set number of problems within a stipulated time, testing their skill and preparation in the field of coding and data processing.

The Cuban delegation is made up, in addition to Marco Antonio, of Maité Morales Carreras (10th grade, Villa Clara), Camilo Triana Barata (12th grade, Villa Clara), and Francis José Rodríguez Ronda (12th grade, Las Tunas).

Cuban students and coach participants. Taken from Juventud Técnica.

"The experience has been as we expected. We have two students who are repeating and two who are participating for the first time. The tenth-grade student has excellent results, both in 9th and 10th grade (bronze and silver) in the Ibero-American Computer Science competition," said Leo Cardona Luque, the coach of the Cuban delegation and professor at IPVCE José Maceo Grajales (Guantánamo), to Juventud Técnica.

In June of this year, eight Cuban students won medals at the XV Ibero-American Olympiad in Informatics, which was held online in Peru.

The delegation, made up of 15 students from pre-university education, achieved a total of six silver medals, two bronze medals, and two honorable mentions.

These results placed Cuba in fourth place in the competition, which featured 166 young people from 16 countries. The top three positions were Brazil, Mexico, and Spain.

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