The 26th edition of the Central American Mathematics Olympiad, to be held in Honduras from October 9th to 14th, will feature two students from this province: Heidy de la Caridad Rodríguez Fuentes and Liss Marian Estevez Suárez, both 11th-grade students at the Máximo Gómez Báez Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE, for its acronym in Spanish).

César Endris Acosta Martínez, a graduate of the Máximo Gómez Báez Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences,  obtained a bronze medal in the 55th edition of the International Chemistry Olympiad, held in Switzerland this year , from last July 16th to 25th.