MEDIA RELEASE
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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