Tag Archive for: Maths

Success for Maths Team

The St Columba’s College maths team, comprising Allegra Caccia, Herbert Feng, Gu Zihan and Grace Koch, won the Regional Round of the IMTA Team Maths competition held at Alexandra College earlier today, defeating 30 other teams from schools in Dublin. They answered 16 correct answers out of 20, 2 ahead of nearest challengers, a team from Belvedere College.
It is all the more impressive as our team was made up entirely of Form V pupils, while the competition is open to Leaving Certificate pupils in both Forms V & VI. They will go on now to the National Finals held later in the Spring.
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Success in Maths & Computing Olympiads

Congratations to Form IV pupil Herbert Feng who achieved fourth place in the All Ireland Programming Olympiad (AIPO) in UCC and, in doing so, has qualified for the national team. He will now go on to represent Ireland at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2024 in Egypt next September.

Herbert also recently competed in the 37th Irish Mathematical Olympiad (IrMO) at the end of January, finishing in tenth place, once again earning him a spot in the national training squad. This squad will be whittled down to a team of six, who will represent Ireland at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2024 in Bath, UK, in July.

In other mathematics success, Form I pupil Laurence Sun took part in the Irish Maths Teachers’ Association 1st Year Maths Quiz, which has been taking place since 1994. The quiz, which was sat by over 14,000 students around Ireland, consists of 15 multiple choice brain problem solving questions, to be answered within a 40 minute period. Laurence was one of only 63 who achieved above 84% and was awarded a trophy. He scored a hugely impressive 93%.

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