jeudi 30 juillet 2015

IOI 2015, ICHO 2015, IPhO 2015 and IBO 2015 Singapore Teams' Results

IOI 2015 Results

IOI 2015 Singapore Team has won 1 Silver 3 Bronze
Silver - Jacob Teo, NUS High
Bronze - Feng Jiahai, RI
Bronze - Howe Choong Yin, NUS High
Bronze - Pang Wen Yuen, RI

IChO 2015 Results

IChO 2015 Singapore Team has won 1 Gold 3 Silver
Gold - Li Bingjian, RI
Silver - Kee Jing Yee, NUS High
Silver - Kang Yi Cheng, RI
Silver - Bram Lim Song Jie, HCI

IPhO 2015 Full Results

IPhO 2015 Singapore Team has won 1 Gold 4 Silver

Gold (ranked 5th) - Darren Chua Yee Shuen, RI
Silver - Garett Tok Em Liang, NUS High
Silver - Peter Yuen, RI
Silver - Joel Tan Shi Quan, NUS High
Silver - Joshua Lim Yong Kiat, NUS High

IBO 2015 Full Results

IBO 2015 Singapore Team has won 3 Gold 1 Silver

Gold (ranked 4th) - Daniel Tan Chee Hian, HCI
Gold - Samuel Fong En Lei, RI
Gold - Chang Jia Geng, RI
Silver - Theophila Toh Ying Lin, NUS High

Congratulations!

mercredi 15 juillet 2015

IMO 2015 Results

Results on IMO 2015 Official Website
USA is the top country. The last time USA came in top was in 1994, when they achieved 6 perfect scores!


Alex Song from Canada is the newly crowned king in Hall of Fame. Lim Jeck is now ranked joint 9th.
Singapore came in 10th with 1 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze.
This year's cut off points for Gold: Silver: Bronze are 26: 19: 14

dimanche 12 juillet 2015

Hosting Hungary Exchange Students

Lim Li went for Student Exchange Programme in Fazekas Mihåly High School, Hungary, from 14 - 21 March 2015. Refer to here and the photos.

Five Hungary students are currently having their exchange programme with NUS High from 9 to 16 July. We have hosted two students, Hoang Ly Melinda and Ujvari Eszter, from 10 - 12 July. They stay in NUS High Boarding School on other days.

From left: Melinda, Eszter and Lim Li. They are eating Chinese dumplings for breakfast.

lundi 22 juin 2015

Cyber Defenders Discovery Camp 2015

Source: AsiaOne

S'pore 'will need more cyber defenders'

The winning team of the University/Polytechnic category at this year's Cyber Defenders Discovery Camp with Minister of State for Defence Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman at a hands-on cybersecurity exercise. From left: Ho Wei Xiong, 25, Lim Anyu, 25, Lim Min, 21, Erickson Tjoa, 24.  Photo: DSTA
As Singapore grows increasingly wired, more manpower will be needed to keep its online infrastructure safe from malicious attacks- and the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) is reaching out to young talents to ensure that the nation's cyber security is kept up to speed. 

"We will need more and more cyber-security engineers in Singapore, going forward," said DSTA cyber-security director Tan Ah Tuan.

He was speaking at the award ceremony of the third Cyber Defenders Discovery Camp held at the Singapore University of Technology and Design yesterday.

These camps for pre-university and tertiary students aim to raise awareness of cyber security and to interest them in a career within the field.

Twenty-two teams from junior colleges, polytechnics and universities took part in the three-day camp, which saw a record turnout of 323 students this year - three times that of the previous years.

Participants went for a two-day crash course on how cyber attacks are launched and how to defend against these attacks through firewalls and patching up server vulnerabilities.

They applied their skills at a competition yesterday, where each team had to defend its own servers and network while attacking the other teams' systems at the same time.

Minister of State for Defence Mohamad Maliki Osman, who was the guest of honour, said the camp was to search for "the best and brightest to be Singapore's future cyber defenders".

The nation's cyber-defence workforce and its skill sets must increase, said Dr Maliki, in order to stay ahead of cyber attackers.

Undergraduate Erickson Tjoa, 24, who was in the winning team in the university/polytechnic category, said the experience had made him more interested in cyber security. "I originally wanted to go into academia, but this field is more creative and exciting," said Mr Tjoa.

According to Mr Tan, agencies will require innovative and creative cyber defenders to fight the ever-growing threat of cyber attacks.

"We do offer internships to the teams who display aptitude in this area," said Mr Tan. That was the route Mr Elvin Poh took. The 27-year-old was a participant at the inaugural camp in 2012, and is now a cyber-defence engineer at DSTA's Cybersecurity Programme Centre.

"The camp was my first glimpse into the cyber-security world, where I developed my interest in learning how to protect systems," said Mr Poh.

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Results:
Junior College/Integrated Programme category winner: Anderson Junior College University/Polytechnic category winner: Smuntunus team comprising undergraduate students from Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore (hence the team name smuntunus)

Team Smuntunus comprising members Erickson Tjoa (NTU), Lim Min (NTU), Lim An Yu (SMU) and Ho Wei Xiong (NUS) came in first in the University/Polytechnic category. They won S$8,000.

lundi 8 juin 2015

CGMO 2015, CMO 2015, CWMI 2015 Singapore Teams

The following girls will represent Singapore in the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO), which will be held in Shen Zhen, China, from 10 - 14 August 2015:

Beverly Chan Li Xuan, Year 3, NUS High
Lim Li, Year 4, NUS High
Estelle Lee, Year 3, RGS
Li Anqi, Year 3, RGS

The following students are selected for the China Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) 2015, to be held from 13 - 18 December 2015:

Bryan Wang, Year 4, HCI
Dylan Toh, Year 3, NUS High
Clarence Chew, Year 4, NUS High
Joel Tan, Year 2, NUS High
Ma Zhaoyu, Year 4, RI
Glen Lim, Year 5, RI

The following students are selected for China Western Mathematical Invitational (CWMI) 2015 which will be held from 15 - 20 August 2015:

Joel Tan, Year 2, NUS High
Gabriel Goh, Year 3, NUS High
Matthew Fan, Year 4, NUS High
Khor Jun Wei, Year 2, RI
Li Chen Xu, Year 2, RI
Lee Ker Yang, Year 3, RI
Caleb Leow, Year 3, RI
Yang Gan, Year 5, RI

Heartiest congratulations to one and all!

SIMO Camp 2015

Annual residential SIMO Camp, for SIMO Senior Team and SIMO National Team members
From 5 to 9 June, held at NUS High

Introduction on Day 1
Ice breaking game, where one will be picked to sit or lie down on ice (placed on chairs) for 10 secs.
In NUS High hostel
Formal night with buffet dinner.

Penalty of playing Indian Poker - the loser has to eat a spoonful of very chopped up mango pudding.

samedi 6 juin 2015

IBO 2015 Singapore Team and IPhO 2015 Singapore Team

The 26th IBO (International Biology Olympiad) will take place in Aarhus, Denmark, from 12 - 19 July 2015.

The following Year 6 (JC2) students are in the Singapore Team:

Daniel Tan, HCI
Theophila Toh, NUS High
Chang Jia Geng, RI
Samuel Fong, RI


The 46th IPhO (International Physics Olympiad) will be held in Mumbai, India, from 5 - 12 July 2015.

Our Singapore Team comprises the following Year 6 (JC2) students:

Joel Tan Shi Quan, NUS High
Joshua Lim, NUS High
Garett Tok, NUS High
Darren Chua, RI
Peter Yuen, RI

Congratulations to the above students!!