DAGUPAN CITY - Jamaica Marie S. Clata, a junior high school student of Pangasinan Universal Institute (PUI) and a resident of Rivera Street this city, emerged as winner in the 2006 China Middle School Olympiad held in Qingdao, China on August 5-10, 2006.

Jamaica, along with other Filipino math wizards, settled 3rd place during the international Math competition, besting more than a thousand math wizards who competed from all over the world.

She is the only representative from the entire Dagupan City and Pangasinan who represented the Philippiine team through the Mathematics Trainers’ Guild (MTG).

During the competition, the Dagupeño student has proven her excellence in Mathematics after hurdling several stiff levels of the competition covering fill inthe blanks and open-ended questions in areas of Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Probability and Statistics.

It was learned from Conseca Rapacon, center coordinator of the Mathematics Trainers Guild of the Philippines-Pangasinan Chapter, that Jamaica also triumphed as a gold medalist during the Mathematics Trainers Guild of the Philippines competition last April 2.

Prior to the competition, Rapacon said that Jamaica went through an extensive month-long training under theh 2006 Mathematical Summer Olympiad Training Program.

Moreover, the 18-member Philippine team is also chosen as the Best Performance Team. (CIO/Leziel T. Cayabyab)