Young Pakistani mathematicians awarded

ISLAMABAD: Eighty students representing different government and private schools of Islamabad and Rawalpindi who participated in the first National Inter Schools Math Olympiad (ISMO) were awarded cash prizes and certificates worth four hundred thousand rupees.

The ISO titled, "Pakistan Seeks Al- Khwarizmi," was held last month at all the branches of Pak-Turk Schools across the country in which some 16,500 students participated representing over 500 schools.

The students of class 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th took part in the competition while 722 were selected for rewards due to their mathematics skills.

Eighty students out of 2,500 contestants representing different schools of twin cities bagged cash prizes worth four hundred thousand rupees while rest of the 642 winning students would get rewards in ceremonies to be organised in nine other cities of Pakistan.

Those who received prizes included Abdul Moeed Ijaz, a class VIII student who was recently declared Al-Khwarzmi of Pakistan for his brilliance in mathematics.

Managing Director Pak-Turk International CAG Educational Foundation Pakistan Mr. Unal Tosur, Director Education Mr. Fesih Celik, Kamil Ture, Ebubekir Haspolat, Ahmet Efiturk and other teachers of Pak-Turk Schools and Colleges addressed the ceremony.

They said that not a single competing student filled ISMO forms manually, which means that usage of Internet has become very popular in Pakistan.

They said, "We are in continuous process of upgrading ISMO software to help provide better education to Pakistani students ensuring high quality human resource which is most meaningful investment in future of this brotherly country." (APP)