Old Mutual, Mzuzu University award best maths students
For the third year running, Old Mutual Insurance Company Limited in partnership with Mzuzu University on Thursday awarded cash and material prizes to winners of the Old Mutual Secondary Mathematics Olympiad at Mzuzu University, an annual mathematics competition involving secondary school students in Malawi.
The contest is organised annually by the University’s Department of Mathematics with funding from the Insurance Company.
This year’s competition worth K10 million pooled together 168 students from 60 secondary schools.
“This year the competition drew participants from 16 districts but our target is that next year we should cover all the districts in Malawi,” said Vincent Mkandawire, Regional Manager for Old Mutual Company for North and Central regions.
Deputy Vice Chancellor for Mzuzu University Dr Loveness Kaunda expressed gratitude to the company for the material support towards the annual event.
“This year we were pleasantly surprised that sponsorship towards the annual competition had been raised from K7Million to K10 million,” she disclosed. “This competition is very helpful to the secondary school students as it helps remove negative perceptions students tend to have towards mathematics.”
Mkandawire stressed the importance of promoting mathematics learning in the country, saying the subject is a basis for many other science disciplines that drive the economic development of the county.
This year’s contest saw Daniel Mkandawire from Nkhotakota Secondary School emerge as best student, followed by Steven Mayendayenda from Dedza secondary school and Waleke Vincent from Bishop Mtekateka secondary school.
The overall winner went away with K70 000 cash, a certificate and a scientific calculator as his prize.
In the category of schools, the best school was Mary Mount Girls followed by St Mary’s Girls and Kasungu Secondary school in that order.
The competition involves a series of mathematics tests at Mzuzu University campus on from where semi-finalists, finalists and then winners are selected. –Additional reporting by Pius Nyondo – Nyasa Times.
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Improve on prizes to woo and motivate the partakers please!
Congrants Daniel,you have made our school pride,This is message from me as alumni ,proudly to be associated with Nkhotakota Secondary School
MY BOY STEVEN MAYENDAYENDA!!
Congrats Waleke, iwe ndi Tanker ya Maths. Watch out for Bishop Mtekateka Sec. School next year. We strive for excellence!
Congrats our Cluster leader, Nkhotakota.
This was supposed to be covered by all media houses from day 1 of the competition. To the contrary, only few did this, to them this is not news worthy but when a politician coughs, urinates eish you find them scrambling for an interview. This is why Malawi will not develop!
GOOD SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACTIVITY OLD MUTUAL THOUGH DEVELOPING ITS OWN PROSPECTIVE PERSONNEL.