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Zoe Barry (left) Mary Aherne (Middle) Lucy Ward (Right)
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Sive Neary (Left) and Aoife Troxel (Right)
In Hong Kong today at the World Statistics Congress 2013 Irish maths students were placed among the best in the world in a poster competition run by the International Association of Statistical Education (IASE) in collaboration with the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP). The poster competition attracted over 7,200 entries, from 117 different countries, across five continents, including the USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Australia, all the EU member states and South Africa. The theme of the ISLP poster competition, this year, was Agriculture.
Aoife Troxel and Sive Neary, from Dominican College, Taylor’s Hill in Galway were placed second in the world, in the senior category, with their poster “Tracing the Roots of Irish Vegetables”. Their maths teacher Dee King was delighted with her students’ achievements. Aoife and Sive have added €500 to their posters’ impressive haul to date. Their poster has already won the John Hooper Medal for Statistics garnering them both the beautifully engraved sterling silver John Hooper Medal as well as a total of €1,600 in prize money, €1,000 of which is awarded to the school and €600 to the students themselves. The Finnish poster won the Senior category.
Not to be outdone by the older students the poster “Think Organic” by Mary Aherne, Zoe Barry, Lucy Ward from Coláiste Mhuire, Askeaton, Co Limerick was placed third in the world in the Junior category of the same competition. Máire O’ Brien is the students’ maths teacher. Again this is a great achievement by these young Irish students from Limerick taking on the world. Mary, Zoe and Lucy will share €300 from the €3,500 total prize fund for the IASE/ISLP competition which was donated by the Wakimoto Memorial Fund. Students from Korea won the Junior category.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) who run the John Hooper Medal for Statistics poster competition on the island of Ireland and the selection process for the Irish posters to be put forward to the international IASE/ISLP competition were delighted with the result. Dr Steve Mac Feely, Assistant Director General of the CSO, who directs the Irish John Hooper Medal for Statistics competition, was keen to stress the importance of this achievement by Irish students. In addition the Director General of the CSO, Padraig Dalton, complimented the students on their achievements which reflected the very high standard of the entries in the national competition which results in the awarding of the John Hooper Medal for Statistics.
You can view the prize winning posters on the CSO website, get details of the John Hooper Medal for Statistics poster competition and the Awards Ceremony.
John Hooper 2013 Prize Awards
Minister Sean Sherlock T.D. Minister of State, Department of Enterprise, Jobs & Innovation and Department of Education & Skills with responsibility for Research & Innovation will present the prizes for the John Hooper Medal for Statistics Awards Ceremony, during Maths Week, in the The Clock Tower, Dept. of Education and Skills, Marlborough St, Dublin 1 on Thursday, October 17th at 12.00. The CSO has invited Reija Helenius, Director of the ISLP and James Nicholson Head of Mathematics at Belfast Royal Academy and Vice President of the IASE to present the students with their prizes from the IASE /ISLP international poster competition on the same day.
Besides the students themselves the CSO wish to acknowledge, the parents, teachers and schools who encouraged and supported all the students who entered the John Hooper Medal for Statistics poster competition. The CSO is also grateful for the support of Project Maths, PDST Technology in Education and the Department of Education and Skill, and the Department of Education Northern Ireland and all our national and international colleagues who support the John Hooper Medal for Statistics poster competition and its international counterpart the IASE/ISLP poster competition.
For further information contact :
CSO John Hooper Medal coordinator
Databank and Dissemination, The Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork
Tel: 021 453 5504 or 086 4535 741
Central Statistics Office 29 August 2013
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