OYAK MATHS CONTEST AMONG HIGH SCHOOLS
Throughout the year we announced our contest with the support of the Governors, Mayors, National Education Managers of the cities and our schools, we invited the best students of the distinguished state schools. Each team was constituted by 4 students and a team leader (a teacher). We supplied financial contribution to every attending school and awarded every participant. We examined the fresh minds with the questions prepared by TUBITAK and designated the best schools of these 5 cities. For a couple of days before the events we invited the people of the region to our factories and the esteemed teachers of TÜBITAK gave lectures on mathematics.
Then we invited the city winners to Ankara. We hosted them and organised city tours within a designed programme. We held the final examination at METU and once again the city winners competed with the questions prepared by TUBITAK. We announced the contest results during a cocktail party organised in Ankara Hilton Hotel. The winner of 2003 OYAK Cement Group Maths Contest was Mardin Kızıltepe Anatolian High School. The champion students were awarded by computers and the schools was awarded financially for the second time.
Taking into consideration the very positive feedback we received in 2003 we decided to repeat the contest in 2004, this time in 6 cities; we have taken Niğde among us, the city where OYSA Cement, a corporation of OYAK-Sabancı was. The most successful high schools of these cities competed among themselves for the city winner titles and these winners were announced by the cocktails organised in the cities and the teachers from the local universities gave lectures on the importance of mathematics during these cocktails. This time, in May 2004, we invited the winners of these 6 cities to Istanbul and during the organised city tours they might have visited the universities in which they would successfully win to attend. We organised the final examination on May 2, 2004 at the Technical University of Istanbul (ITU). As in 2003, TUBITAK was once again beside us.
We announced the champion during the cocktail organised in the Hyatt Regency on May 3, 2004, before the ceremony Mr. Ercan KUMCU gave a lecture to the guests again on mathematics. The champion of 2004 OYAK Cement Group Maths Contest was NİĞDE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL.
As OYAK Cement Group, we were proud to organise the Maths Contest Among High Schools for the third time In 2005. This year our factories in 6 cities brought along a city to the contest and the first round was held on March 26, 2005 in 12 cities. The city winners were announced in the cocktails organised during the April 11 week and their awards were delivered We hosted the city winner students and their families in Istanbul between April 30 and May 2. Following the final that took place on May 1, the award ceremony was held on Monday, May 2, 2005 at the Ceylan Inter Continental Hotel and BOLU ATATÜRK HIGH SCHOOL became the champion.
2006 contest was organised in 12 cities on February 25, 2006 and our students competed again on April 16 at the ITU Maslak Campus to determine the champion schools.
At the award ceremony organised on April 17 at Hyatt Regency Hotel we celebrated ADANA SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL as the champions for 2006.
In 2007, we started the works for the preparation of the Math Contest Among High Schools with the 5th year pride. The contest was materialised by the participation of 916 students from 229 schools from 10 cities and the city finals were organised on February 24, Saturday in the city centres. We hosted the city winners in Istanbul in April. Following the final, held on Sunday, April 15, the champion was announced in the award ceremony that was held on April 16, in the Ball Room of the Swiss Hotel. There was another surprise in the ceremony; the Chairman of the Board of Directors of OYAK Mr. Yıldırım Türker announced that a decision was taken for the participation of all the OYAK affiliate companies, not only OYAK Cement Group, in the contest and he further stated that many more students shall be participating as of the following year from more cities to share the importance of mathematics and wished that the contest would be a sample to everybody.
In 2008, we initiated our studies with the well-deserved pride of having organized the High Schools Mathematics Competition since 7 years. The provincial first-rank examination of the competition, which enjoyed the participation of 1972 students coming from 493 schools in17 different provinces, took place on Saturday, the 15th of November, in the city centers of participating provinces.
In April, we hosted the top scoring students of each participating province to Istanbul. Subsequent to the final exam on 18th of April, the winner of 2008 was announced at the ceremony, which took place on the 20th of Nisan at the Ballroom of Swiss Hotel.
In 2009, 1972 students from 493 schools participated in the competition, which covered a total of 17 provinces, and the winner of 2009 was the Science High School Tosçelik'in Hatay / Iskenderun.
In 2010, 1964 students from 491 schools located in 16 different provinces participated in the competition and the Science High School of Bolu won the first place at the final examination that took place in Istanbul.
In 2011, the ninth anniversary of the competition, the High Schools Mathematics Competition took place with the participation of 2040 students from 510 schools in 15 provinces under the slogan "Life is Mathematics". This year, the Science High School of Zonguldak was the winner of the examination, which witnessed a cutthroat competition enhanced by Olympic test booklets sent to schools and the Mathematics Seminar camp organized prior to the finals. The Science High School of Zonguldak achieved the highest point of the past 9 years and, hence, cemented its pride of championship.
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