Two Boholanas earned VICTORY in the 2009 CHINA PRIMARY MATH OLYMPIAD held in TIANJIN, CHINA on AUGUST 9 TO 13, 2009, together with 45 other participants in the Philippine delegation. CONGRATULATIONS! The Boholanos are so proud of you. Of the country’s 46 student-participants in the primary level from among the 37 Mathematics Trainers’ Guild (MTG) centers in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, two (2) are Boholanas: twelve-year old AJ Wincielou Johanna “Cielo” Araoarao Gabin and 10-year-old Eloisa Jean “Jean” Sarmiento Remoreras. Both are products of the MTG – Bohol Center under Dr. Jose Caberte and Omar Remendado. Like the other qualifiers and alternates from the other MTG centers in the country, the two young Boholanas have been selected based on their consistent impressive performance during the training programs. Gabin, a Grade 6 pupil of Holy Spirit School (HSS) when she first joined the MTG training program sessions last school year and now a first year HS student of Tagbilaran City Science High School is the only child of Engr. Jerome John, Senior Trade and Industry Development Specialist of the Department of Trade and Industry – Bohol and Fiel Angeli, City Information Officer of the City Government of Tagbilaran. Remoreras, on the other hand, is currently a Grade 5 pupil of the Victoriano D. Tirol – Advanced Learning Center, and the eldest child of Engr. Emerito, a civil engineer working in a firm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Josefina, a University of Bohol – College of nursing clinical instructor, who was also with the Philippine delegation.