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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.