Maranao kid tops in Math, Science, Chemistry and Physics in 2025 Olympiad

Casib is declared this year’s “Absolute Winner & Gold Medalist.” 

Along with Ogden Michael Javier of the PSHS Main Campus in Manila, Casib won a gold medal but Nur won the “Absolute Winner” title, a Mindanews report said  Sunday, March 30. 

The 18-year old Meranaw also won as overall champion in the 27th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad (PMO) held at the Far Eastern University in Manila on March 8 and 9, the report also said. 

He was awarded Most Valuable Pearson (MVP) in the 24th National Statistical Challenge held on February 23 at the UP Diliman School of Statistics, the first time the MVP award was given, the report said. 

The eldest of four children of surgeon Norodin Casib and gynecologist Sittienor M. Gumaos-Casib of the Amai Pakpak Medical Center in Marawi City, Nur has been winning Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in national and international competitions since 2018, when he was 12 years old. 

Nur acknowledges that the awards he received in previous years, especially in international contests, “may have given us an edge, but still I knew that the competition (for admission) was fierce.” 

Seeing the result in the MIT admissions portal “certainly boosted our morale for the PPO contest later that day. Alhamdulillah, at that moment, I really felt that my future, after being conflicted for so long, has finally been cast,” he said.