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Caribou Math Contest: Gr. 10 Students Rank #1 and #2

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, Grade 10 students Melissa, Isabelle, Angel, Jalisa, Bridget, Christina, Emily, Michelle, Louise, Rainy and Sarah, Grade 9, participated in the second Caribou Math Contest of the year (there’s 6 in total) and once again, the girls competed very well among 890 contestants!

Congratulations to Melissa who ranked #1 in the province, 22nd in the country and 26th in the world! Another congratulations goes out to Isabelle for ranking 2nd in the province, 23rd in the country and 28th in the world! Kudos to all the girls who participated!

The Caribou Mathematics Competition is a world wide online contest. The goal of the competition is to “provide challenging math activities for interested grade 3-12 students, show that mathematical puzzles can be fun and that competing in math contests can be exciting and modern” [www.cariboutests.com].

Voimen Chu
Sr. School Math Teacher

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Math Challengers & Physics Olympics Team Compete at UBC

Math Challengers Compete at UBC

MathChallengers UBC 2Kudos to the Math Challenger participants (Angel, Emily, Melissa, Jalisa and Rainy) for spending their Saturday at UBC yesterday competing in the Math Challengers provincial.

The girls didn’t bring home the championship trophy, but were happy to have made it this far. Great job, girls!

Voimen Chu

Physics Olympics

A group of Grade 11 and 12 students also gave up their Saturday to head up to UBC to complete in the Physics Olympics.

The team had been working on the ‘pre-build’ part of the competition for a couple weeks. They had to make a wind turbine and a device that lowered a ball a vertical distance of 1m as slow as possible. Here is a video and a photo of their solution:

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David Riendl