BC Secondary School Mathematics Contest 2008

Report to the BCCUPM

On May 2, 2008 the Final Round of the BC Secondary School Mathematics Contest was written at 10 provincial colleges, university colleges, and universities.  Students who had performed well on an earlier preliminary round held within their own high schools were invited (together with a teacher sponsor) to attend the final round and spend a day at the local post-secondary institution with several activities involved.

This year the participating institutions were:

Camosun College                                                        (Cam)

Capilano College                                                         (Cap)

College of New Caledonia                                         (CNC)

Douglas College                                                          (Doug)

Langara College                                                          (Lang)

Malaspina University College             (MUC)

Northwest Community College                                  (NWCC)

            Okanagan College/UBC Okanagan                            (OC/UBCO)

Thompson Rivers University                                      (TRU)

University College of the Fraser Valley                     (UCFV)

The table below gives a summary of the number of students and the top scores (out of a possible 100) in the Final Round at each institution.

Institution	Final Round		Top Three Scores		Averages
	Juniors	Seniors	Junior	Senior	Junior	Senior
Cam	15	11	98, 88, 80	66, 64, 51	50	38
Cap	30	26	86, 85, 84	81, 78, 76	52	54
CNC	28	14	44, 43, 36	47, 44, 39	NR	NR
Doug	16	15	98, 86, 70	90, 89, 84	47	59
Lang	14	11	76, 75, 67	64, 62, 60	44.8	43.4
MUC	43	36	81, 62, 46	65, 60.5, 59	23.4	28.2
NWCC	9	8	52, 31, 28	52, 48, 44	24.5	32.3
OC/UBCO	35	25	63, 48, 42	96, 65, 62	23.9	34.8
TRU	31	29	70, 42, 28	59, 50, 42	19.0	26.2
UCFV	49	31	83, 81, 75	79, 76, 64	32.7	33.7
TOTAL	270	206

Approximately 1385 Juniors and 875 Seniors wrote the Preliminary Round this year.  The top reported Junior and Senior Preliminary scores were both 60 out of 60.  Note that not all schools report Preliminary Round scores or participation numbers, so these are not a completely accurate reflection of the level of participation in the Preliminary Round.  A total of 476 students participated in the Final Round this year, down slightly from last year.

Funding of the province wide activities associated with the BCSSMC, in particular travel of speakers from one institution to the other for Final Round activities and by the BCSSMC Provincial Coordinator, currently Clint Lee, to the BCCUPMS meeting for problem preparation sessions, has been generously provided by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, PIMS.

For those planning for next year, the dates for the 2009 Contest are:

         Preliminary Round:                    Wednesday March 4, 2009

         Final Round:                              Friday May 8, 2009

The top three students in at the Junior and Senior levels from the 8 institutions that participated in 2008 are given below.  Note that participants were asked to submit a Freedom of Information Protection of Privacy Consent form in order for their names to be reported.  In the following, only the names of participants who submitted a form are included, though school and grade are provided.

Camosun College

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior		Mt Douglas Secondary	11
Second Place Senior		St Michael’s University School	12
Third Place Senior		St Michael’s University School	12
First Place Junior		St Michael’s University School	10
Second Place Junior		St Michael’s University School	10
Third Place Junior		St Michael’s University School	9

Capilano College

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior	Brian Cho	West Vancouver Secondary School	11
Second Place Senior	Yi Wang	Britannia Secondary School	11
Third Place Senior	Ricky Li	Bodwell High School	12
First Place Junior	Manuel Ung	Hugh McRoberts Secondary School	10
Second Place Junior	Gary Chan	Moscrop Secondary	10
Third Place Junior	Jeremy Cleveland	Burnaby South Secondary School	10

College of New Caledonia

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior	Conor Hoekstra	DP Todd Secondary School	12
Second Place Senior	Benjamin Cheung	DP Todd Secondary School	12
Third Place Senior	David Peterson	Correlieu Secondary School	12
First Place Junior	John Rustad	Heather Park Middle School	8
Second Place Junior	Austin Lu	DP Todd Secondary School	9
Third Place Junior	Arthur Marutt	College Heights Secondary School	9

Douglas College

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior	Billy Jun	Pinetree Secondary	12
Second Place Senior	Chris Lee	Pinetree Secondary	11
Third Place Senior	Antonio Wang	New Westminster Secondary	11
First Place Junior	Robin Cheng	Pinetree Secondary	10
Second Place Junior	Shawn Xu	Burnaby North Secondary	10
Third Place Junior	Jessica Zhu	Pinetree Secondary	10

Langara College

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior	Xin bo Cheng	Windermere Secondary School	12
Second Place Senior	Steven Tse Yiu Wong	Eric Hamber Secondary School	12
Third Place Senior	Sam To	Windermere Secondary School	12
First Place Junior	Jessica Jun	Eric Hamber Secondary School	8
Second Place Junior	Alan Wong	Windermere Secondary School	10
Third Place Junior	Bowen Su	Windermere Secondary School	10

Malaspina University College

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior	Jane Wang	Dover Bay Secondary School	11
Second Place Senior	Sheng Wei Lin	John Barsby Secondary School	12
Third Place Senior	Celeste Fang	Dover Bay Secondary School	11
First Place Junior	Jason Wang	Dover Bay Secondary School	9
Second Place Junior	Eva Chung	Dover Bay Secondary School	10
Third Place Junior	Alice Hsueh	Dover Bay Secondary School	10

Northwest Community College

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior	David Gibb	Smithers Secondary	12
Second Place Senior	Shayna Scott	Prince Rupert Secondary	12
Third Place Senior	Travis Herkel	Smithers Secondary	12
First Place Junior	Matthew Murrary	Charles Hays Secondary	10
Second Place Junior	Haley Hooper	Smithers Secondary	10
Third Place Junior	Sarah Holdyk	Smithers Secondary	10

Okanagan College/UBC Okanagan

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior:	Richard Mack	Immaculata Regional High School	11
Second Place Senior	Kevin Petersen	Penticton Secondary School	12
Third Place Senior:	Shiana Jeon Kristina Gasser	Immaculata Regional High School	10 12
First Place Junior:	Connor Vandenberg	Kelowna Secondary School	10
Second Place Junior:		Salmon Arm Secondary School	10
Third Place Junior	Katie MacDonald	Okanagan Mission Secondary School	9

Thompson Rivers University

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior:	Craig St. Jean	South Kamloops Secondary School	11
Second Place Senior:	Samuel Redl	Williams Lake Secondary School	12
Third Place Senior:	Jordan Crosina	Columneetza Secondary School	12
First Place Junior:	Stephan Bouthot	South Kamloops Secondary School	10
Second Place Junior:	Keith Rollans	Sa-Hali Secondary School	10
Third Place Junior	Go Yasui	Sa-Hali Secondary School	9

University College of the Fraser Valley

	Name	School	Grade
First Place Senior:	Gil Woo Kong	Yale Secondary School	12
Second Place Senior:	Chi Hon Song	WJ Mouat Secondary School	12
Third Place Senior:	James Cho	Robert Bateman Secondary School	11
First Place Junior:	Peter Kim	Abbotsford Middle School	8
Second Place Junior:		WJ Mouat Secondary School	10
Third Place Junior	Joe Kim	Mennonite Educational Institute	9

Report prepared by

Clint Lee

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Okanagan College