WIS at SEAMC 2016
Over the weekend of February 25 to 28, WIS competed as 2 teams of 3 in the South East Asia Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There were a total of 240 mathematicians and 80 teams. Even though we found 16 full hours of mathematical problems very cumbersome, we still enjoyed the experience thoroughly and created many memories.
There were different rounds where we either worked in our school teams or in our buddy teams – teams made up of students from all competing schools. We also had the Individual Rounds as well as a Team Round, Passback Round, and the Energiser, where we had to work in our school teams. The Energiser was our favourite round as we ran to collect questions back and forth. The Math Trail was very challenging and we had to work in our buddy teams to solve a series of skill-related activities and decipher complicated codes.
We are pleased to report that Hywel and his team won the Math Trail. The Year 10 team placed 12th and Year 9 team placed 23rd overall. The Year 10 team placed 3rd in the Team Round and Bruce Xu placed 19th overall in the Individual Round.
SEAMC was a great experience for us, and even though we got very few hours of sleep, we still had the determination and strength to complete all the competition rounds. During our time at the competition, we met and bonded with many other students from schools all over South East Asia and met a lot of like-minded people. This competition really helped to improve our mathematical skills in solving problems and at the same time helped us become more curious to discover and learn more.
It was truly a great opportunity and experience for everyone, and team would like to thank Ms Tsui and Mr Betteridge for accompanying us, and especially Ms Buckley for arranging all the details.
We would also like to also thank the upper school leaders – Sean, James, Patrick and Elliot for helping us prepare over the past few months.
Jocelyn Tsui (9H1), Tiffany Chung (9Y2), John Hu (9H2), Matthew Poon (10Y2), Hywel Cheng (10Q1) and Bruce Xu (10H2).
