The Caribbean Science Basis (CSF) held the second annual Caribbean STEM Olympiads (CSO) on January 17 to 21 in a digital format.
In these Science, Expertise, Engineering and Math (STEM) Olympiads, people and groups representing academic establishments, golf equipment or themselves competed within the (a) Math Olympiad, (b) Laptop Coding Olympiad and (c) Robotics Olympiad at three completely different age ranges (12 – 15, 16 – 18 and 19 – 21). The Math Olympiad was held in a Jeopardy-style format and lined matters starting from client arithmetic to vector calculus.
The Laptop Coding Olympiad tasked candidates to create apps, video games, and web sites geared toward fixing a problem confronted by Caribbean communities. The challenges tackled by groups within the 2024 Olympiads included geohazards and local weather change, inter and intra nation transportation, public well being, non-communicable illnesses, crime, and cash motion and monetary schooling. The Robotics Olympiad tasked candidates with constructing progressive robots from kits at Stage I, and sophisticated robots ranging from scratch with a set of random elements at Stage III.
A complete of 131 college students from 11 Caribbean international locations registered for the 2024 Olympiads. After the preliminary rounds, 39 groups (83 college students) made it to the finals. There have been 47 finalists within the Math Olympiad, 22 within the Laptop Coding Olympiad, and 14 within the Robotics Olympiad.
Medal certificates and money prizes of US$ 500, 400, 300 and 200 have been awarded to the groups profitable platinum, gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively. The Awards and Closing Ceremony, held on Sunday 21 January 2024, revealed that Jamaica led the medal depend with 8 medals, adopted by Antigua and Barbuda with 6, Belize with 4, Barbados with 3, Saint Lucia with 2, and Grenada, Guyana, Saint Kitts & Nevis and Trinidad &Tobago with 1 every.
Concerning essentially the most prestigious medals, Jamaica earned 2 platinum medals. A workforce consisting of Chad Wright, Micah Edwards and Sidan-E Walker who attend Campion School, however represented themselves, gained the Stage 1 Math Olympiad platinum medal, and Michaela Brown, Jamía Williamson, Kelsey Atkinstall and Kathryn McLean, additionally from Campion School however representing themselves, collectively gained a platinum medal within the Stage 2 Laptop Coding Olympiad for his or her public-health targeted mission, “HospitalFlow.”
From Belize, Giselie Garcia who attends Muffles School Excessive College, however represented herself, gained the platinum medal within the Stage 1 Laptop Coding Olympiad along with her hurricane preparedness mission titled “Protecting Measures”. Avinda Dhoray, Saiesh Rampersad and Kovid Capildeo from Presentation School Chaguanas in Trinidad and Tobago, collectively gained a platinum medal for stellar efficiency within the Stage 2 Math Olympiad, whereas a workforce consisting of Kahlil Phillip, Rochelle Griffith and Tristan Pivotte, former college students of T.A Marryshow Group School, Grenada, who’re at present on a spot 12 months, earned a platinum medal within the Stage 3 Math Olympiad.
Professor Cardinal Warde, the Interim Govt Director of the CSF reported that “the STEM outlook for the Area could be very optimistic. This 12 months we raised the bar slightly larger than it was within the inaugural 12 months (2023) for the Math Olympiad, and I used to be once more impressed by the efficiency of the medalists. To additional elevate the bar for our robotics and coding efforts, beginning in April of 2024 the CSF will supply teaching classes for robotics and coding groups to assist them put together for our 2025 Robotics and Laptop Coding Olympiads.”
The competing college students additionally had rather a lot to say. Platinum medalist, “Group PCC Pi-rates” from Trinidad and Tobago said, “we wish to thank the CSF for internet hosting this competitors because it helped to develop our analytical and significant considering abilities and we have been capable of apply every part we learnt with a view to obtain success. We look ahead to subsequent 12 months’s competitors.”
Group Ravens of Jamaica, who gained a silver medal in Stage 2 Robotics mentioned, “Thanks on behalf of Group Ravens; this expertise was actually wonderful, and we’ve learnt rather a lot from this chance to take part!” After which Tejasvarun Kandavel, a 13-year-old scholar from Guyana who gained a bronze medal within the Stage I Laptop Coding Olympiad mentioned, “I wish to thank the CSF for giving me the chance to take part within the Coding Olympiad Finals. I might additionally prefer to thank the judges for reviewing my mission and giving me suggestions on easy methods to enhance it.”
The Institutional sponsors included CIBC, Emera Caribbean, Peloton Worldwide, Trident Insurance coverage, and TAG software program. The Caribbean STEM Olympiads is an initiative of the CSF – a regional non-profit NGO with the mission of aiding with the event and diversification of the economies of the Caribbean Area by selling STEM schooling reform and stimulating technology-based entrepreneurship. For extra data on the CSF, the Caribbean STEM Olympiads and different programmes run by the CSF, please go to https://caribbeanscience.org.
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