Melbourne Students Win Prizes In Leading International Competition

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17 November 2009


Melbourne 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 Tuesday, 18 November at the Brunswick Town Hall,

Brunswick, at 5pm.


Dr Edwin Van Leeuwen, Department of Earth sciences, University of Melbourne, will present

Prize Certificates to the 27 prizewinners and Prudence Awards to the 35 students who

achieved the highest number of consecutive correct responses in their school.


One student who attained High Distinction in the Australian Informatics Competition (AIC),

will also receive his award 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 84,000

students from 600 primary and secondary schools in Victoria 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:


ALTONA GREEN PRIMARY SCHOOL

ALTONA MEADOWS

CLIFTON HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL

CLIFTON HILL

ESSENDON PRIMARY SCHOOL

ESSENDON

MOONEE PONDS WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL

MOONEE PONDS

OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL

SUNSHINE

ST BERNADETTE'S SCHOOL

IVANHOE

ST JOHN BOSCO'S SCHOOL

NIDDRIE

BAYSIDE SECONDARY COLLEGE

WILLIAMSTOWN

GLENVALE SCHOOL - BENDIGO

GLENROY

GLENVALE SCHOOL - BALLARAT CAMPUS

GLENROY

GLENVALE SCHOOL - BERWICK

GLENROY

ACADEMY OF MARY IMMACULATE

FITZROY

ALPHINGTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL

ALPHINGTON

BRAYBROOK COLLEGE

BRAYBROOK

BUCKLEY PARK COLLEGE

ESSENDON

MARIAN COLLEGE

WEST SUNSHINE

MARIBYRNONG SECONDARY COLLEGE

MARIBYRNONG

MERCY COLLEGE

COBURG

MOUNT ST JOSEPH GIRLS COLLEGE

ALTONA

NORTHCOTE HIGH SCHOOL

NORTHCOTE

PASCOE VALE GIRLS COLLEGE

PASCOE VALE

RESERVOIR DISTRICT SECONDARY COLLEGE

RESERVOIR

PRINCES HILL SECONDARY COLLEGE

PRINCES HILL

SANTA MARIA COLLEGE

NORTHCOTE

ST COLUMBA'S COLLEGE

ESSENDON

ST ALBANS SECONDARY COLLEGE

ST ALBANS

ST ALOYSIUS COLLEGE

NORTH MELBOURNE

ST BERNARD'S COLLEGE

ESSENDON

SIMONDS CATHOLIC COLLEGE

WEST MELBOURNE

IVANHOE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

IVANHOE

PENOLA CATHOLIC COLLEGE

GLENROY

THORNBURY HIGH SCHOOL

THORNBURY

ANTONINE COLLEGE

BRUNSWICK

THE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL

PARKVILLE

BRUNSWICK SECONDARY COLLEGE

BRUNSWICK

IVANHOE GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL

IVANHOE

FOOTSCRAY CITY COLLEGE

FOOTSCRAY

CAROLINE CHISHOLM CATHOLIC COLLEGE

BRAYBROOK

WESTBOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

TRUGANINA

PENLEIGH & ESSENDON GRAMMAR SCHOOL

NIDDRIE

KEILOR DOWNS SECONDARY COLLEGE

KEILOR DOWNS


Photo opportunity:


WHAT:   

Special prize

giving ceremony for the 2009 Australian Mathematics

Competition and Australian Informatics Competition


WHEN:   


Tuesday, 18 November 2009, 5pm  -7pm


REFRESHMENTS:  6pm-7pm


WHERE:  


Brunswick Town Hall, cnr Sydney Road & Dawston Street, Brunswick


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








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