2012 Small c Mathematics Competition
On Friday, September 21, over 400 first and second year University of Waterloo students wrote the 12th annual Small c Mathematics Competition (PDF). It is a multiple-choice contest based largely on high-school mathematics.
The top-ranked students were:
- First year: Luka Filipovic, Yifan Hu, Haonan Li, Yuan Qin, and Arun Shanmuganathan
- Second year: Zhengkai Tu, and Meng Jie (Kaitlyn) Liu
Honourable mentions go to Xiayue Lin, Tianyi Liu, Arun Sithamparapillai, and Heng Tan.
Thanks are due to Terry Bae, Fiona Dunbar, Angie Hildebrand, Barry Ferguson, Sandy Graham, Judith Koeller, Bev Marshman, Carolyn Sedore, Ian VandenBurgh and Troy Vasiga for all their help in the preparation and administration of the contest.
2012 International Olympiad in Informatics
From September 23 to September 30, Troy Vasiga and J.P. Pretti accompanied "Team Canada" to Italy for the 24th International Olympiad in Informatics. Over 80 countries and 300 students participated. Contestants competed by writing computer programs to solve challenging algorithmic tasks on two five-hour days of competition. We are very proud of the results achieved by our team of:
- Vitalik Buterin (1A Computer Science at Waterloo),
- Daniel Hui (Woburn Collegiate Institute in Toronto)
- Angus Kong (Vincent Massey Secondary School in Windsor), and
- Geoffry Song (1A Computer Science at Waterloo).
They returned to Canada with two silver medals and a bronze medal.
We also congratulate Hristijan Bogoevski who is also a 1A Computer Science student in our faculty and earned a bronze medal competing for Macedonia.
J.P. Pretti