Once again, CKSC high school students won various awards and medals in individual and team categories in the 8th Invitational World Youth Mathematics Inter-Cities Competition (IWYMIC) held in Jilin University in Changchun, China last July 21-25, 2007. Sixty-six teams from 17 countries, including the Philippines, U.S., Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, South Africa, India, China, Iran, Korea and Macau participated in this contest.

The CKSC winners of honorable mention for the individual contest were: Ervin Frederick Dy (III-5), Jillian Kristel Sy (III-5), Franchesca Choi (IV-5), Sharlene Dizon (IV-5) and Sherine Ann Koa (IV-5).

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Sharmayne K. Ng, a first year high school student recently won 1st place in the recently concluded YMCA Annual Children’s Art Contest held on July 29 at YMCA Downtown Center’s Table Tennis Center and Auditorium. Previously, Sharmayne was the grand champion in the “Europe ‘Ko To” on-the-spot drawing contest organized by the Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines. Other winners from the YMCA contest were Jimmy E. Chung, (4th year high school) who won 7th place. In the elementary group, Timothy Ryan P. Wang, a grade 5 pupil won 7th place.

Henry Jefferson Morco, a grade 6 student won the gold medal while 2 more students won bronze medals in the International Youth Mathematics Contest for elementary and high school in Hong Kong last August 3, 2007.

Henry won the gold medal in the Hong Kong Elementary Mathematics International Competition (HKEMIC). 2 CKSC bronze medalists in the high school counterpart, Asia Inter-Cities Teenagers Mathematics Olympiad (AITMO) were Dann Julius Tan, 3rd year, and Aldric Cristoval Reyes, a sophomore.

Other schools that joined the Philippine delegation were: Xavier School, Saint Paul College-Pasig, Quezon City Science High School, Zamboanga Chung Hua High School, Saint Jude Catholic School, Jubilee Christian Academy, Philippine Cultural High School (Annex), and Pangasinan Universal Institute,

Franchesca D. Choi, a senior high school student recently got the Top Scorers Award in the Individual Category of the American Region Mathematics League (ARML) 2007 held at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada last June 1-2, 2007.

Students from 15 countries and all states in U.S participated in the contest. The Philippines finished the contest ranking 6th in the list. Out of 15 delegates from the Philippines, only two received this top scorer award: Franchesca and another student from the Philippine Science High School in Davao.