AJHS student Gab Asuncion wins silvers for Math and Nat-Sci in 2023-24 Copernicus Olympiad prelims

Last school year, Gab Asuncion (then in 7-Alvares, now in 8-Canisius) won two silver awards in the preliminary round of the Copernicus Olympiad. One silver was in the field of Natural Science, while the other was in Mathematics. The preliminary round for the Natural Science Olympiad was held online on 26 November 2023. There were three preliminary rounds for Mathematics which attracted 9,407 participants from 52 countries: 16 December 2023, 17 February 2024, and 16 March 2024. Gab joined the one held in March.   

He is the only Atenean to win medals in more than one field of the Copernicus Olympiad. 

The Copernicus Olympiad was established in 2020 in Houston, Texas, by passionate educators with international experience. The name Copernicus is derived from the famous Polish mathematician- physicist-astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who proposed the revolutionary theory that the planets revolve around the Sun, contrary to the then-prevailing belief that Earth was the center of the Universe.

The Copernicus Olympiad offers grades 3 to 12 students from all over the world the opportunity to compete in the following disciplines:

·       Natural Science Olympiad

·       Physics and Astronomy Olympiad

·       Copernicus Film Festival

·       Copernicus Entrepreneurship Olympiad (CEO)

·       Mathematics Olympiad

The Copernicus Olympiad is growing day by day and currently has contestants from 52 countries around the globe.