Students from Perth Modern School, All Saints’ College and Hale School have taken out the top individual prizes while Perth Modern won the team prize in WA’s Maths Olympiad hosted by The University of Western Australia.
Nelson Yan and Sally Huang, from Perth Modern School, were the most outstanding Year 9 and 8 students respectively.
Danil Kazanov, from Perth Modern School, Shyann Zhang, from All Saints' College, and Jeremy Lim, from Hale School, tied for most outstanding Year 7 student.
The top individuals in Years 7 and 9 all achieved the maximum possible score.
Image: Winning team: Declan Lin, Jack Bana, Danil Kazanov, Jeremy Wang and Boan Li.
In the team competition, winning the most outstanding award was a Year 7 team from Perth Modern and in second place a Year 7 team from Hale School.
• Most outstanding team: Declan Lin, Danil Kazanov, Jeremy Wang and Boan Li.
• Runner up team: Ignatius Coutis, Tyler George, Jeremy Lim and Vic Qi.
The competition, where calculators are banned and the emphasis is on ‘brains only’, aims to challenge, inspire and nurture a love of mathematics while identifying the top young students in the State.
The prizes were awarded at UWA on October 18 following the competition, which attracted 447 individual competitors and 109 teams from 22 schools.
The best-performing students and teams from each year were presented with prizes totalling more than $4000.
The competition was sponsored by UWA, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University, the Australian Maths Trust, the WA State Department of Education, Mathematical Association of Western Australia, Data Analysis Australia, New Edition Bookshop, Optiver and Casio.
The Olympiad, which has been hosted by UWA since 1999, was held in the UWA Ezone Student Hub this year for the first time.
Image top: Mark Reynolds (Head of school Physics, Maths, Computing UWA), Nelson Yan, Danil Kazanov, Shyann Zhang, Cheryl Praeger (Emeritus Professor UWA), Sally Huang, Jeremy Lim and Nicola Armstrong (Curtin University).