MEDIA RELEASE
17 November 2009
Brisbane Students Win Prizes in Leading International Competition
The Australian Mathematics Trust will hold an awards presentation ceremony for the annual
Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) and Australian Informatics Competition (AIC) on
Thursday, 19 November at Queensland University of Technology at 5pm.
Dr Troy Farrell, School of Mathematical Sciences at Queensland University of Technology, will
present AMC Prize Certificates to 90 prizewinners from the Brisbane and Gold Coast areas.
Two students who attained High Distinctions in the Australian Informatics Competition (AIC),
will also receive their awards at this ceremony.
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The AMC is the major mathematics school enrichment event in the South Pacific region
and the first and one of the largest of its kind in the world. Several hundred thousand
students from schools across 42 countries entered this year. This included 43,000
students from 400 primary and secondary schools in Queensland who sat the
competition.
Prizes are awarded to approximately the top 0.3% of students sitting the AMC in each
year group within each Australian state or country.
Whilst the AMC aims to encourage the average primary and secondary student in the
study of mathematics, it also identifies and acknowledges the more exceptional and
talented students.
Professor Peter Taylor, Executive Director of the Australian Mathematics Trust, said, “The
AMC aims to encourage students of all standards in their study of mathematics. It sets out
to demonstrate how mathematics can be used in the world around them via problem
solving using the skills students learn in the classroom. The AMC has also been useful in
identifying talented students such as these and the results are used for inviting students
into more advanced mathematical enrichment programs.”
The University of Canberra and the Canberra Mathematical Association in Australia are
supporting sponsors of the AMC.
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School list:
QUEENSLAND ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS & TECHNOLOGY
TOOWONG
BRISBANE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
SPRING HILL
BRISBANE GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL
BRISBANE
BRISBANE STATE HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH BRISBANE
ANGLICAN CHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL
EAST BRISBANE
CORINDA STATE HIGH SCHOOL
CORINDA
FOREST LAKE COLLEGE-AVENUE CAMPUS
FOREST LAKE
HOLLAND PARK STATE HIGH SCHOOL
HOLLAND PARK
INDOOROOPILLY STATE HIGH SCHOOL
INDOOROOPILLY
IONA COLLEGE
LINDUM
ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN SENIOR SCHOOL
MERRIMAC
KENMORE STATE HIGH SCHOOL
KENMORE
MACGREGOR STATE HIGH SCHOOL
MACGREGOR
MARIST COLLEGE ASHGROVE
ASHGROVE
MITCHELTON STATE HIGH SCHOOL
MITCHELTON
MOUNT GRAVATT STATE HIGH SCHOOL
MOUNT GRAVATT
SOMERVILLE HOUSE
SOUTH BRISBANE BC
ST JAMES COLLEGE
SPRING HILL
ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, GREGORY TERRACE
SPRING HILL
ST PAUL'S SCHOOL
BALD HILLS
ST PETER'S LUTHERAN COLLEGE
INDOOROOPILLY CENTRE
ST RITA`S COLLEGE
CLAYFIELD
SUNNYBANK STATE HIGH SCHOOL
SUNNYBANK
THE GAP STATE HIGH SCHOOL
THE GAP
CAPALABA STATE COLLEGE
CAPALABA
ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE
NORTH IPSWICH
CHRISTIAN OUTREACH COLLEGE BRISBANE
MANSFIELD
KEDRON STATE HIGH SCHOOL
WOOLOOWIN
A B PATERSON COLLEGE
ARUNDEL
ORMISTON COLLEGE
ORMISTON
ASPLEY STATE SCHOOL
ASPLEY
MACGREGOR STATE PRIMARY SCHOOL
SUNNYBANK
ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
MERRIMAC
ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN JUNIOR SCHOOL
MERRIMAC
COORPAROO SECONDARY COLLEGE
COORPAROO
GOOD NEWS LUTHERAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
MOUNT OMMANEY
Photo opportunity:
WHAT: Special prize giving ceremony for the 2009 Australian Mathematics Competition
and Australian Informatics Competition
WHEN: Thursday 19 November 2009, 5pm – 7pm. Refreshments 6pm- 7pm
WHERE: Queensland University of Technology – Kelvin Grove Campus, Building F, Room 509
Media are cordially invited to attend.
For further information:
Prof Peter Taylor, Executive Director, Australian Mathematics Trust, 6201 2440; 0412 258 699
Suzanne Fraser, Manager, Australian Mathematics Trust; 6201 2954; 0437 670 610
Graham Meiklejohn, State Director for Queensland, AMC - 07 3851 0528
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