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South East Asian Mathematics Competition

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The South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) is a 4-day math competition held in a predesignated location in South East Asia.

General information

Website

http://seamc.asia

Location

The location of the SEAMC changes annually. There are now at least two venues held annually and any institution may host it (with discounted perks), refer to the website for more details.

Eligibility

The Senior Competition is open to all students in Grade 12 (Year 13) or younger during the month of the event.

The Junior Competition is open to all students in Grade 9 (Year 10) or younger during the month of the event.

The competition

History

SEAMC and NEAMC are mathematics collaboration experience for school students located in South or North East Asia to come together for three days.

The schedule throughout is very busy, with a healthy mix of seriousness and laughter, geekiness and play indoors and out! Participants sometimes think deeply alone, work in teams, be inspired by mathematician guest speakers (and others) and create using our imagination! This unique platform enables participants to network and build lasting friendships and life-long memories as a highlight of one's schooling years.

SEAMC was concieved at the turn of the milenium by Steve Warry. He was an enthusiastic teacher with the Alice Smith School, Kuala Lumpur and had a belief that Mathematics could be a 'spectator sport'. In persuit of this, he organised the South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) for March 2001. Tragically, he passed away the week prior to the competition, but the event went ahead and Steve's dream became a reality. Due to popular demand, NEAMC became a reality through the enigmatic Malcolm Coad within Nanjing International School, China in February 2014 and it is now a twin sibling of SEAMC.

Format

All competitions have:

  • 3 days of engagement
  • 9 equally weighted rounds
  • 6 skills categories for prizes
  • The best sum ranking across all 9 rounds win!
Skills categories Communication(as a school team)  Collaboration(as a buddy team) Challenge(as an individual)
Strategy Pursuit Lightning Duel
Creativity Innovation Open Codebreaker
Knowledge Adventure Shuttle Mathematician

School teams engage within the Communication rounds.

The Collaboration rounds are in buddy teams of three (the Open round involves 2 buddy teams working together). The Challenge are rounds undertaken as individuals.

Three rounds are (subject specific skills and procedures) knowledge based,

three are (plan and execute) strategy focused and three depend upon (new and imaginative ideas) creativity.

So each strategy, creative and knowledge skill category is engaged in alone, in school teams and in buddy teams.

Prizes

There are many prizes to be had, with the most important being the intangibles that one gains from such an experience. On top of that:

  • All participants receive a transcript of relative attainment in each of the 9 rounds.
  • The highest ranked individuals in each category receive medals.
  • The highest ranked individuals across all 9 rounds receive medals.
  • The best ranked school team across all 9 rounds receive a respectively named Cup (for the SEAMC Junior competition, this is the original Warry Cup).

The better ranked teams across all of the competition venues that year are invited to the ultimate World Mathematics Championships showdown, hosted by Trinity College, University of Melbourne in the following July each year.

Results

Past team winners

  • 2015 - Singapore American School, Singapore
  • 2014 - Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong
  • 2013 - Chinese International School, Hong Kong
  • 2012 - Chinese International School, Hong Kong
  • 2011 - West Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2010 - British International School, Vietnam (Jaeho Han, Cheewon Oh, Jungmin Kang)
  • 2009 - German Swiss International School, Hong Kong
  • 2008 - UWCSEA, Singapore
  • 2007 - KGV, Hong Kong
  • 2006 - KGV, Hong Kong
  • 2005 - Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2004 - Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2003 - Garden IS, Kuala Lumpur
  • 2002 - Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2001 - South Island School, Hong Kong

Past individual winners

  • 2016 - Otto Winata, Singapore Piaget Academy Medan, Indonesia
  • 2015 - Alex Lee, Taipei European School, Taipei
  • 2014 - Tie between Kyung Chan Lee, Garden International School, KL, and Michael Wu, Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong
  • 2013 - Joanna Cheng, South Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2012 - Charles Meng, Chinese International School, Hong Kong
  • 2011 - Alexander Cooke, South Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2010 - Ki Yun Kim, JIS, Indonesia
  • 2009 - Joon Young Lee, ISB, China
  • 2008 - Dong Wook Chung, UWCSEA, Singapore
  • 2007 - Oliver Huang, KGV, Hong Kong
  • 2006 - En Seng Ng, SAS, Singapore
  • 2005 - Tiffany Lau, Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2004 - Otto Chan, Island School, Hong Kong
  • 2003 - Ernest Chia, Garden IS, Kuala Lumpur
  • 2002 - Ernest Chia, Garden IS, Kuala Lumpur
  • 2001 - John Chan, WIS, Hong Kong

References