TNHS keeps "Overall Champion" title in 2015 National PSYSC Summit

by Joshua Alex Binza and Tricia Regine Bermillo

TNHSians return back from Sorsogon City with a two-peat in the bag!

After being last year's overall champion, Tabaco National High School (TNHS) was once again hailed as the overall champion in the Mathematics, Science at Kapaligiran (MATHSCIAKA) contests during the 2015 Philippine Society of Youth Science Clubs (PSYSC) National Summit held on September 5-6, 2015 at Sorsogon National High School, Sorsogon City, Sorsogon.

This two-day camp featured contests such as the MATHSCIAKA Engineering Science and Interactive Challenge, Philippine Science Olympiad, subcamp quiz bee and photo-sprinting contests, team-building workshops, I Teach Science Seminar and Workshop for teachers and the 2015 Regional Council election in relation to the theme:"MATEREALIZE: Synthesizing Ideas, Extracting Knowledge, Forging Science Clubbers as Agents of Innovation."

Jade Edward Biron and Jewel Diamante, from 10-Einstein and 10-Newton respectively, placed first in the MATHSCIAKA Engineering Science contest after battling with three more high schools from Region V.

On the other hand, Trisha Faith Alaiza, Joshua Alex Binza, Nichelle Buenconsejo, Leon Ricardo Fernandez and Johann Niccolo Ocampo landed the 3rd place in the MATHSCIAKA Interactive contest after competing with 12 other teams of five from high schools participating in the said summit.

With the Engineering Science contest given 60% weight and the Interactive Challenge given 40% weight in determining the overall champion, the 1st and 3rd place wins in both MATHSCIAKA contests helped TNHS in keeping the overall champion title.

Furthermore, three other students from TNHS namely Neil Ivan Bellen, Romela Bragais and Leon Ricardo Fernandez brought the school a 3rd place win in the Philippine Science Olympiad contest.

Grade 9-Mendeleev student and current Grade 9 PSYSC President, Al-vi John Jerfvin Corpuz, was elected as this year's Marketing Officer which makes him part of PSYSC's Region V Regional Council.

After winning 3rd place in the MATHSCIAKA Interactive Challenge, Nichelle Buenconsejo exclaimed, "All things considered, the best part of this year's summit is the MATHSCIAKA Interactive Challenge where my friends and I won 3rd place. It is indeed the most nerve-wracking, patience-testing and honestly, the most exciting and most memorable experience I have in this camp."

All contestants were coached by Mrs. Elizabeth Bongala and Ms. Tina Ang, PSYSC advisers, who also accompanied them along with 96 more students from TNHS in the said summit.