Friday 24 May 2013

Junior Saigon Mathematics Competition

On Saturday morning, nine students (Seo Rin Kang, Natania Peh, Emily Widjaja, Carl Chua, Seo Young Jung, Ji Soo Chung, Daniel Kim, Jun Won Hwang and Than Tran) were very excited about the morning’s competition. Things were very tense between the teams because everyone knew it was going to be a very tough competition. Competition began with an individual round, where challenging questions were thrown at us in an exam style written round. We then progressed through a Pass-it-Back round, where we relied on each other’s answers to answer our questions. After that we had a nice 20 minute break where we compared answers. The competition ended when the team round and the relay rounds finished.

The relay rounds were probably the most exciting of all the rounds. This was because all of the BIS teams held good positions up to that point and the championship depended on the final rounds.  BIS 1 were 1st, BIS 2 were 3rd, and BIS 3 were 5th.  We were all nervous as we started the round-we had a very good chance to have all teams place 1st 2nd or 3rd overall. The announcer explained us the rules and 3…2…1… we began. As we started, Team 2 decided to skip the first few questions. We were now even more scared, how much harder would the next questions be?

In the end, all teams waited anxiously for the results, and we were not disappointed. Team 1 came first overall and were placed 1st , 2nd or 3rd in all the events. Team 2 came 1st , 2nd or 3rd in all events except the individual rounds, and 3rd overall. In the end, we did well and BIS won the overall competition. Special commendation goes to Thanh Tran and Seo Rin Kang who won 3rd and 1st respectively.

 

By Thanh Tran, Jun Won Hwang and Carl Chua

 

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