Students of pre-university education obtained six silver medals, two bronze and two mentions in the XV Ibero-American Computer Science Olympiadheld in Peru online.
With that result, The Cuban team ranked fourth among the 16 participating countries. Brazil, Mexico and Spain were in first place, in that order, according to the Ministry of Education (MINED).
Cuba’s medalists were Camilo Triana, Maité Morales, Marcos Escandón, Adrián Pacheco, Francis José Rodríguez and Sergio Jorge Montero, who won silver medalsin addition to the bronzed Manuel Alejandro Plana and Cristhian Ernesto Lugo. Luis Felipe Hernández and César Raúl Luis González received mentions.
The team was also made up of Reinier García Montes de Oca, Zaniel García Orihuela, Karen A. Zaldívar and Christopher Jesús Constantin Pérez from Santiago.
The professor of the Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences José Maceo in Guantánamo and experienced team coach, Leonardo Cardona, explained that the test took place on June 22 and 23.
It consisted of solving, in five hours, four problems of an algorithmic nature, in which different programming topics could appear, subdivided into subtasks. This means that the same problem could have several solution algorithms for a given range of data.
Although the Cuban team did not win any gold medal in this Informatics Olympiadin which a total of 166 young people participated, did manage to surpass the results obtained in the 2023 edition, when six medals were won, including one silver and five bronze medals, as well as five mentions, Cardona said.
The professor also described this year’s result as admirable, because some members of the team competed while sick and gave their best. This allowed us to achieve eight medals and two mentions.
The coach explained that Cuba has participated in these competitions since 1998.. It only stopped participating in 2010. There are 257 representatives that the Island has had in the Olympiad to date. With them, 141 medals have been achieved (21-43 and 77) and 18 mentions.
Camilo Triana Barata, Marco Antonio Escandón García, Maite Morales Carreras and Francis José Rodríguez Ronda, silver medalists in the Peruvian competition, will make up the Cuban team that will participate in the International Olympiad, which will take place from September 1 to 9 in Egypt.
