Pune girl Ananya Ranade wins bronze in Maths Olympiad
Four Indian girl students bagged bronze at Mathematical Olympiad held in Hungary recently.
All four contestants who represented India at the 11th European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad held in Eger, Hungary, during April 6-12, 2022, have won bronze medals. Twelfth standard students Ananya Rajas Ranade from Pune, Anushka Aggarwal from Delhi and Sanika Amol Borade from Nashik and tenth standard student Gunjan Aggarwal from Delhi are the winners from the country.
The students were accompanied by following Leaders and Observer:
1) Dr. Aditi Sunil Phadke, Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune Leader
2) Mr. Pulkit Sinha, IISc., Bangalore, Deputy Leader
3) Ms. Rohinee Joshi, IITB, Mumbai Observer C
Anushka and Gunjan are sisters to represent India at the EGMO 2022. Both Ananya and Anushka missed silver by 1 point. This year India participated in full-strength onsite after a hiatus of two years forced by the pandemic.
If you are keen to know about India’s performance since 2015 it is recorded here:
https://www.egmo.org/countries/country35/
The proposed problems and their official solutions are here:
https://www.egmo.org/egmos/egmo11/solutions.pdf
The team is returning to Mumbai on Wednesday, April 13. The winners and their leaders will be felicitated by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education on April 13, 2022.
Please visit the website of the host country at https://egmo2022.hu/.
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. The broad goals of the Centre are to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics education from primary school to undergraduate college level, and encourage the growth of scientific literacy in the country. HBCSE is the premier institution in the country for research and development in science, technology and mathematics education. It is India’s nodal centre for Olympiad programmes in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and junior science.
