DUSHANBE, August 3, Asia-Plus — Tajik team, comprising four high school students, took part in the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO, also known as the International Mathematical Olympiad) that was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from July 19 to July 31.
Tajik students showed good results, wining a bronze medal and two certificates.
Abdufattoh Hotamov, the principal of Tajik-Russian boarding school, told Asia-Plus that two students from their boarding school had participated in the Olympiad. “The 11
th
-form student Akbarsho Fayzushoyev won the bronze medal and the 9
th
-form student Muhammadjon Shoyev was given the certificate,” said Hotamov, “The 11th-form student from Dushanbe’s Tajik-Turkish lyceum Inomjon Sharipov was also given the certificate.”
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual mathematical olympiad for high school students. It is the oldest of the international science olympiads.
The first IMO was held in Romania
in 1959. Since then it has been held every year except 1980. About 90 countries send teams of (at most) six students each (plus one team leader, one deputy leader and observers). Teams are not officially recognized – all scores are given only to individual contestants. Contestants must be under the age of 20 and must not have any post-secondary school education. Subject to these conditions, an individual may participate any number of times in the IMO.
The principal added that four Tajik students will take part, for the first time, in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) that will be held in Zagreb. Croatia, from August 15 to August 22.
The International Olympiad in Informatics is an annual competition in the discipline of informatics (computing science) for senior pupils at secondary schools all over the world.
