Westdale High School Students Successful in Math Contests
Published: June 25, 2007
Judith Bishop, Hamilton Wentworth District School Board trustee for Wards 1 and 2, sent us the following good news:
Once again, Westdale students have had phenomenal success in writing math contests. More than 65,000 students from over 1,300 schools across Canada participated in these contests this year. Certificates of distinction are awarded to students ranking in the top 25 per cent of all the contestants in Canada. Westdale received a total of 62 certificates of distinction. WOW!
Congratulations to the following students who have shown outstanding achievement.
Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge
Gold Medal Winner: Gautam Kamath
Certificates of Distinction: Gautam Kamath, Lu Gao , Eric Wang, Maggie Xu, Polly Peng, Lin Liu, Wendy Wang, Alice Ding, Chengbo Qian, Angela Tang, Connor Behan, and Cassie Bian
University of Waterloo Mathematics Contests
Team Results and Top Scorers:
Grade 9 Pascal Team
Zone Champion
25th in Canada
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Steven Long
- Brendan Angles
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Di Wu
Grade 10 Cayley Team
Zone Champion
60th in Canada
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Haoxiang Xu
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David Xu
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Michael Guan
- Jing Xu
Grade 11 Fermat Team
Zone Champion
17th in Canada
- Lingfei Liu
- Wendy Wang
- Gautam Kamath
Grade 12 Euclid Team
Zone Champion
32nd in Canada
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Lu Gao
- Wendy Wang
- Alice Ding
- Lin Liu
Certificates of Distinction: Lu Gao, Wendy Wang, Alice Ding, Lin Liu, Gautam Kamath, Connor Behan, Polly Peng, Aisling Finan,Yang Lei, Maggie Xu, Joanne Jiang, Ben Kybartas, and Steven Li.
Canadian National Mathematics League (CNML Contest)
102 students at Westdale participated. this year. Westdale is ranked 20th out of 225 schools across Canada.
Author: Judith Bishop