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August 2015
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Prasanna Ramakrishnan, a student of the International School of Port of Spain won a Silver Medal at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 4 -16 July. Prasanna was part of a 5-member team led by Dr Indra Haraksingh, Lecturer in Environmental Physics at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine. The teen received his prize at the Closing Ceremony, held on 16 July. “We are elated that Prasanna has brought home a silver medal this year,” said Dr Haraksingh. Last year Prasanna won a Bronze medal at the competition and that, coupled with this year’s win makes him the first person from T&T to win two medals at the IMO. “This will be a great inspiration for many high-school students in T&T that they too can aspire to not only participate in this challenging competition but also to win,” she added. The IMO is held in different countries each year and T&T has been participating since 1991. Over the past 25 years, T&T has won 2 silver medals, 5 bronze medals and 23 honourable mentions (where a participant gets full marks for solving one problem). T&T is the only country from the English-speaking Caribbean to compete in the global competition and is the smallest country to win this many medals over the years. This year the T&T team comprised Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Alex Navarro, Arjun Isa Mohammed and Adam Superville. Dr Haraksingh jointly led the team with Jagdesh Ramnanan, also of The UWI. |
For further information, please contact Dr Haraksingh at indra.haraksingh@sta.uwi.edu. For more information on IMO log on to http://www.imo2015.org/ and https://www.imo-official.org/team_r.aspx?code=TTO&year=2015