Caribbean: Barbados secured the gold medal in Stage III of the mathematics Olympiad within the second Caribbean Science Basis (CSF) STEM Olympiads, which was held in a digital format from January 17 to 21, 2024.
Barbados picked up a gold medal in Stage III of the mathematics Olympiad by “Workforce Psi-Kicks” consisting of Simeon Inexperienced, Ian Francis, and Tyreke Jones who’re at the moment attending The College of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.
Round 100 and thirty-one college students from 11 Caribbean international locations competed in STEM Olympiads. College students representing golf equipment, faculties or themselves competed within the math Olympiad, pc coding Olympiad and robotics Olympiad within the 12-15, 16-18 and 19-21 age teams.
Thirty-nine groups made it to the finals, together with 47 finalists within the math Olympiad, 22 within the pc coding Olympiad, and 14 within the robotics Olympiad.
Harrison Faculty crew ‘The Kolij Robotics’ of Jovani Gittens, Nathan Nicholls, Tykairi Sargeant and Maliqua Cherubin received the silver medal for Barbados in Stage II of the robotics Olympiad with their Plant Care Robotic.
Queen’s Faculty crew, “Random Stroll” made up with Aian Deane-Warner and Nalani Chassang earned the bronze medal in Stage II of the mathematics Olympiad.
The mathematics Olympiad was held in a jeopardy-style format and lined subjects starting from shopper arithmetic to vector calculus. College students competing within the pc coding Olympiad had been requested 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 modern robots from kits at Stage I, and complicated robots ranging from scratch with a set of random elements at Stage III.
On the finish of the competitors, Jamaica captured eight medals, Antigua and Barbuda received six, Belize 4, Barbados three, Saint Lucia two, and Grenada, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago earned one every.
