15.12: The PI Annual Math League Tournament
The inauguration of the the PI Annual Math League Tournament took place on December 15th, 2008, and was hosted at the Petroleum Institute. The event was a great success, and everybody enjoyed themselves. Taking part were forty-four students from the Glenelg School in Abu Dhabi. Twenty-one female students contested for prizes at the Arzanah campus, whilst simultaneously, twenty-three male contestants entered into mathematical combat at the PI’s male campus.
Initially, the participants competed as individuals in a one hour event, applying their math talents to solving 25 written problems. The contestants then split up into competing groups to tackle a further set of challenging problems. This second part of the tournament proved to be exciting for both students and the competition’s audience! All the questions posed in the tournament were specifically designed to stretch the mathematical insight of the contestants, and required a high level of ingenuity. At the close of the contest, the participants commented that they found the tasks challenging, but interesting at the same time.
“A subset of the set of contestants”
On the male campus the occasion was marked with the presentation of prizes by the Provost & Acting President of the PI, Dr. Michael Ohadi. Also present at the awards ceremony was Dr. Dennis Siginer, who is the Director of the Arts & Sciences Program at the PI.
On the female campus, the presentation of prizes was performed by Dr. Nadia Al Hasani, Director of the Women’s Campus at the PI.
The prize winners for the competition were:
| Boys |
Girls |
| Individual |
1st
Salem Al Junaibi
2nd
Alaa Eldine Zuhair Al Qadi |
1st
Yumna Arif
Reem Malas
|
| Teams |
1st
Salem Al Junaibi
Yusuf Abdullah Hasan
Mohammed Al Ali
2nd
Jassim Al Marzouqui
Mathew Chater
Ahmed Al Mazroui
Obayda Nafaa |
1st
Reem Malas
Layla Al Saeedi
Shaikha Al Wahedi
Erun Mansoor
2nd
Yumna Arif
Dina Nuaimi
Asma Al Suwaidi
Hadya Bawazeer |
