City Students Ace Math Contest
(Thunder Bay - May 13, 2005) The third annual TD Canada Trust Thunder Bay High School Math Contest was written by 135 city students on May 11. This number is up from 67 in 2003 and 96 in 2004. 
Contest problems, marking, and administration are provided by the members of the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Lakehead University, with the very able assistance of Ryan Holm, a 2002 graduate of St. Ignatius High School who is now a mathematics major at Waterloo University, and who is a holder of a prestigious NSERC summer student research grant, working under the direction of the Mathematical Sciences Department at Lakehead University.
Sixteen winners will be honoured at an awards ceremony on May 18 in Room C-242 at Confederation College at 7 p.m. Members of the media are invited to attend the ceremony, or for interviews prior to the event, please contact Dr. Clement Kent at 344-4785.
The contest had two sections, Junior for Grades 9 and 10, and Senior for Grades 11 and 12. The competition, which lasts a full day, has two parts, an individual contest in the morning, and a team event where students work in teams of 3, in the afternoon. Top students in the individual event were Jenny Liu, of Sir Winston Churchill High School with a score of 92 out of 120 in the Junior Division and Yuhan Chen of Port Arthur Collegiate Institute with 75 out of 120 in the Senior Division.
Top team honours in the Junior Division go to Sir Winston Churchill High School, to team members Jenny Liu, Gillian Gillies and Morgan Lockhart. The top team in the Senior Division comes from St. Ignatius High School, team members Andrew Holm, Sara Legros and Riley Hall-Onabigon.
The contest is entirely a Thunder Bay production with the generous main support of TD Canada Trust and additional support from other organizations in the city--BMO- Nesbitt Burns, Thunder Bay Ventures and Thunder Bay Hydro. Sponsor representatives will present the awards at the May 18 ceremony.
Dr. Clement Kent, organizer of the event and Professor Emeritus with the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Lakehead University, is available by calling 344-4785. Photos available upon request by calling 343-8177.
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Contact: Marla Tomlinson, Office of Communications, 807-343-8177 or 807-472-9113