East Hills Boys Enrichment Afternoon

On Wednesday 29^th of May, twelve high achieving male students from Stage 3 attended the East Hills Boys’ Technology High School Enrichment Afternoon. The aim of the afternoon was to develop a deep understanding of problem solving strategies. There were 25 teams involved in the program coming from 9 different schools in the South West Sydney region.

The teams competed with each other in Maths and Science to see which team was the smartest in the entire district. Padstow Park had three teams of four students.

Team 1 consisted of Anthony Bao, James Lee, Shuvam Adhikari and their team captain William Tran.

Team 2 included Michael Li, Jason Lim, Saratt Hayavuchanurak and their team captain Voung Pham.

Team 3 had Dylan Huang, Raymond Du, Sajja Hayavuchanurak and their team captain Jadon Yip.

First was the Mathematics where each team was given a series of math problem solving questions, one on each sheet of paper. Once a team had answered a question, the team captain had to walk the answer to their marker and the marker checked their answer. All the questions were very difficult, requiring a high level of both comprehension and problem solving ability.

After that there was a break, where the teams could relax. Then there was the Science round. There was no working out applied, it was all general knowledge. The Padstow Park teams raced through the questions.

Once all the questions were finished, the results were tallied. Finally they got the results and the victor for the East Hills Boys Enrichment Afternoon 2013 was……Padstow Park Team 2!

All of Padstow Park was thrilled with Team 2’s victory and were happy to have been part of the enrichment afternoon. The students in Team 2 received medals and a handshake from the principal of East Hills Boys High School.

All students involved had a great time.  Thank you to Mr Bao and Mrs Du for helping with the transportation to and from the event.

 

By Anthony Bao and William Tran