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5th Annual All Girls Chess Tournament Results

All went very well on Sunday at the 5th YHS All Girls Chess Tournament.

Here are the results:

Group A – Grades 6+7

  1. Annika Zhou (YHS)
  2. Pepi (YHS)
  3. Maggie (YHS)

Group B – Grades 4+5

  1. Rachel  (South Meridian)
  2. Iris  (Vancouver Christian)
  3. Sabrina  (Pauline Johnson)

Medals: Jacqueline, Sofia and Olivia (YHS)

Group C – Grades 2 +3

  1. Shirley (Chartwell)
  2. Joyce (YHS)
  3. Anna (Vancouver Chess School)

Group D – Grade 1

  1. Veronica (YHS)
  2. Rayna  (Crofton)
  3. Olivia  (YHS)

Medals: Olivia and Maia ( YHS)

Thank you to Janet and Paula for all of their help. Also a big thank you to the three Student Ambassadors who were wonderful too – Kendra, Jasmine and Alice.

Gaby Eirew and her family were wonderful, providing the refreshments and all of the proceeds going to Cancer Research – $175. Panago supported this event by donating the pizzas!

Another successful chess season at YHS.

Christine Addison
Grade 6 Teacher and Junior Chess Sponsor

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Math Challengers Compete at SFU

Our Math Challengers Team at SFU
Our Math Challengers Team at SFU

Our Math Challengers Team (Isabelle, Bridget, Jalisa, Melissa, Angel, Rainy, Kira and Emily) brought their Yorkie energy and enthusiasm to the SFU this weekend for the Regional Math Challengers competition. This tournament is an enriching competition for Grade 8s and 9s.

Our team competed in two individual and one group round on Saturday. They were placed in a competitive pool with the several schools in the Lower Mainland, and were unfortunately defeated.

On a brighter note, congratulations to Melissa who placed in the top 10 individual round and competed in the one-to-one buzz verbal competition (face-off round).

Overall, the girls would agree that the competition was a great experience for the team!

More Math News:

The results are in from the Canadian Senior (CSMC) and Intermediate (CIMC) Math contest written in November 2013.

Our very own Jalisa, Grade 9, who wrote the CIMC, ranked in the top 3% out of 6723 contestants across Canada and around the world! As for the CSMC, Jessica in Grade 12 ranked in the top 10% out of 7816 participants! Congratulations girls.

Viomen Chu
Sr. Math Teacher