By TBHS | Posted: Monday August 12, 2019
On the evening of Wednesday 7 August, Timaru Boys’ hosted the Year 9 and 10 Aoraki Maths Competition and entered two teams at both year levels.
The competition sees teams of four competing against teams representing schools from all over South Canterbury, including teams from Oamaru, Ashburton and Twizel. There were about 28 teams competing at each year level with over 200 individual students in total. At each year level, students are given a set of 20 questions and 30 minutes to complete them. The team who completes all questions first or who completes the most in a given timeframe, is the winner. Calculators are not allowed. Prizes for first place are valued at over $100 per student.
In the Year 9 section, both our teams competed strongly. Our A team quickly gained the lead within the first 10 minutes and managed to hold the lead until the very end, finishing first with an excellent score of 17 with the next closest team sitting on 13. Our B team finished on a score of 9, finishing 5th equal; also a very good result.
The Year 10 teams found the questions at their level slightly more challenging, resulting in both of these teams finishing mid field.
Members of the winning Year 9 team were Moss Peake, Lachlan Adam, Kade Macmillan and Josh Young.
The other Year 9 students who competed were Ashton Wright, George Lister, Nick McDowell and Thomas Allan.
Our Year 10 teams consisted of Cameron Fikken, Pero Forman, Harry Schmack and Sam Wilson; Jasper Keating, Zach Parkin, Ben Pawsey and Nicos Shearer.
Well done boys on rising to the challenge of the competition!
