Throughout the year there have been several opportunities for students to engage with rich mathematical tasks, including Mathswell competitions for Years 9 to 11, The University of Otago Maths Competition, The Victoria University Mathematics Competition, The Australian Mathematics Competition, The Year 9 Problem Solving Certificate and the Year 10 Extension Certificate.

Certificates for the Year 9 Problem Solving Certificate, the University of Otago Maths Competition, the Year 10 Extension Certificate and the Australian Mathematics Competition were presented to students in the Junior Awards Assembly.

The following Year 9 students successfully completed a range of problem solving challenges independently throughout the year, and gained a minimum of 100 points.

Hannah Cubis
Danielle Ewens
Mariia Fedotova
Ainsleigh Fitch
Rebecca Hockley
Georgina Huttley
Sarah Langdon
Lucia Marull
Emily McKenzie
Saxon Mead
Inès Morais
Anh Nguyen
Riya Sarker
Violet Strumph
Faith Tan
Betty Custodio

Congratulations to the following Year 10 students who worked diligently and throughout the year on the Y10 Extension Certificate topics. These topics included lateral enrichment tasks designed to pique student interest and expose them to areas outside of the traditional curriculum.

Maeghan Casey
Emily Ford
Megumi Hirose
Holly Inglis
Stacey Lee
Catherine McKenzie

Megumi receives special mention for being the top point scorer in the year group; congratulations, Megumi!

This year WGC fielded 60 entrants across all year levels for the challenging Australian Mathematics Competition held in August.

Congratulations to all of the students involved. Particular mention goes to the following students who were all awarded Distinction in this competition.

Holly Bamber
Janice Chung
Ella Duggan
Danielle Ewens
Emily Ford
Amelie Greenwood
Megumi Hirose
Julia McDermott
Pippa Stewart
Amber Wang
Rena Yang
Kerry Zhou 

Congratulations to the following students who were specially commended for receiving the High Distinction award.

Amy Booth
Kaia Jiang
Susanna Weng

We also had 42 students enter and compete in the 2018 University of Otago Mathematics Competition. Congratulations to the following students who were awarded a Merit grade for their solutions.

Maya Ando
Amy Booth
Danielle Ewens
Mariia Fedotova
Ava Li
Brianna Law
Kerry Zhou 

Special mention goes to Cara Homewood who came in the Top 200 in New Zealand, and to Megumi Hirose who came in the Top 100 in New Zealand.