On the 13th of August '09 four 8KW students - Hayley Haskell, Amy Sun (me), Robin Carrick and Emily Wong - entered in the WaiMaths Competition involving more than 30 Waikato Teams of Year 8 Students. Hosted at the Hamilton Gardens, these teams of three (and one reserve)take part in this Mathematics Competition hosted every year for Year 7 to High school. It was a tough competition with 20 questions and 45 minutes. Rows of desks with competing teams on each side were placed with the Audience in the middle. The tension was high with Peachgrove creaming up the competition in 20 minutes, getting all the answers right on the first go in the shortest time, thereby ending the Year 7 Competition. Meanwhile, the Year 8 teams were still battling it out with the top teams being within seconds of each other.
But in the end, the best team won.
Do I even need to say who that was?
YES, YOU ARE CORRECT... SOUTHWELL!
With only one point between First and Second and only two points between First and Third, it had been the closest competition yet. There had even been a tiebreaker between Peachgrove and Marion. In the end, the placings sat at
3rd: Marion Catholic School
2nd: Berkley Middle School
1st: SOUTHWELL SCHOOL!
The prize was a $110 Graphic Calculator plus two movie tickets. Perfect! We were the first team to win the Year 8 section since 2003. This is, without a doubt, an amazing achievement (if I do say so myself) and is a great cause for a party.
Winning WaiMaths is a definitely a highlight of the year.
GO SOUTHWELL!
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