A second year civil engineering student emerged as the champion in the annual statistics quiz bee held last October 4, 2019 at AVR2 Mapua Intramuros campus. Mr. Earl John Salamat received P10,000 cash price with medal and certificate. The elimination round was participated by more than 200 freshmen and second year students from both Intramuros and Makati campuses. The top 20 students from the elimination round vied for the top 5 positions who received cash prices and medals in the final round.

Other winners of the contest were Eric Jhon Jabal PHEC-2 (first runner-up), Gericho Piolo Marino CE-1 (second runner-up), Carlo Fornoles CpE-1 (third runner-up) , and Miguel Jose Malvar CpE-1 (fourth runner-up). Mr. Marino who tops among the freshmen participants will also represent Mapua University in the upcoming National Statistics Quiz Bee to be held this November 2019. 

Organized by the Mathematics department, the event was in line with the department’s goal of encouraging students to also excel in the area of Statistics and Probability. ♦