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5290 OAC students wrote the University of<br />

Waterloo's Physics SIN Contest on May 4. 1995.<br />

The <strong>Jarvis</strong> team. consi sting of Hao Wen Huang.<br />

Jiang Liu. Jie Feng, Filip Jaronczyk. Thien<br />

Truong. Lukasz Drazdzewski and Jack Lui. was<br />

2nd in the entire province! Hao Wen did especially<br />

well. placing 3rd in the province. Congratulations<br />

to the whole team!<br />

In grade 12. 2600 students wrote the Ontario<br />

Association of Physics Teachers Contest<br />

(OAPT). Outstanding<br />

results came from<br />

Yi Wen Huang<br />

(3rd place). Yi Wang<br />

(4th place) and<br />

Ying Lin Xie (20th place)<br />

Last year was a very good year for Mathematics<br />

Contestants at <strong>Jarvis</strong>.<br />

In OAC.we had IOstudentson the zone<br />

Honour roll in the Canada-wide Descartes<br />

contest run by the Un iversity ofwaterloo. The<br />

team ofJie Feng. Filip Jaronczyk, and Radu<br />

Butan mad e <strong>Jarvis</strong> the top high school in the<br />

Toronto Board!!<br />

In grade 12. Uros Ka radzic,Sophia Kwan<br />

andAravinthan Kanesalingam put<strong>Jarvis</strong> 3rd in<br />

Toronto.<br />

In grades 9. 10and \I it should be noted<br />

that 37 of our students were well above the<br />

nation al averages, Special notice should be<br />

made of Uros Karadzic. Kirsten Bielefeld and<br />

Jacob Levman in gra de I I.Zi \Vu.JamesJung<br />

and LeaAmbros in grade 10and Jason Leong.<br />

Owen Elliot and Priscilla Hung in grade 9.<br />

45 students volunteered to write the Chern<br />

13 News Contest Two placed in the top5% of<br />

4387 entrants. Haowen Huang mad e it to the<br />

99th percentile and Jie wuplaced in the 97th<br />

percentile.<br />

The Chern 13News Contest is organised<br />

and ru n by the University of Waterloo. Students<br />

in the top 5% are offered research assistantships<br />

which enablesstude nts at Waterloo or the University<br />

ofToronto to work in research with a<br />

professor from the Department of Chemistry. At<br />

\Vaterloo this translates into $700 for one month<br />

during the summer preceding entry into a chemistry<br />

program the re or $350 for two terms working<br />

part time in first yea r. At U of"T,selected<br />

candidates may work on research du ring their<br />

first sum mer where they will receive $10001<br />

mon th for 3 or4 months.<br />

<strong>Jarvis</strong> has always placed students in the<br />

top 5% and forstudents thinking ofpursuinga<br />

career in Chemistry these awards offer an<br />

unparallelled opportunity to further their careers,<br />

48stude nts wrote the Avogadro Exam in Chem ­<br />

istry. Seven of them placed in the top 5% of<br />

5 2~5 entra nts. Yiwen Huang. with a pe rfect<br />

score of1oo% .was tied for 1st place with five<br />

others.Yi wang was close behind and also in the<br />

lOOth percenti le. Othe r top students were:Jiang<br />

Liu.Yun Bai, Uros Karadzic.Aravinthan<br />

Kavesalingham and Michael Pavlin. With a total<br />

of 15stude nts in the top25%. <strong>Jarvis</strong>can be well<br />

pleased with their success.

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