15-year-old girl emerges excellent in Nigeria’s mathematics competition
Loyola Jesuit College Abuja's 15-year-old SS 2 student, Sashe Ojuba, has emerged as the best student in the Kangaroo Mathematics contest.
This was indicated in Abuja by mathematics professor Adewale Solarin.
Ojuba follows in Ekene Franklin's steps, who scored JAMB's greatest score and was Nigeria's domestic gold medalist in the American Mathematics competition.
Immediate previous director and chief executive of the National Mathematics Center and chief advisor for the International Academy for the Gifted said he was challenged by the country's peers to groom disabled kids.
Solarin, who is the instant previous director and CEO of the Mathematics Center, said he was challenged by peers to groom scientists for Nigeria at an award ceremony for over 100 student winners in the competition's Northern category.
According to him: "We began in 2008 when some of my peers in Morocco and the US really questioned us about the need for early identification and development of gifted children.
"The challenge was partly that I produced first-class learners at the university.
"This is my 43rd year in the university system, they informed me that when you begin with the university system learners, it's a little late.
"They may be first-class, but if you want deep research, they can not go to secondary and primary, recognize them early and create them.
"We have now discovered global contests such as the American Math Competition (AMC) in which more than 100 nations take part, then the Kangaroo Mathematics Competition in which more than 90 nations take part, giving our kids the chance.
"We see fresh species of talented children every year. Like this year, in the same tests we discovered some six and five main pupils beating JSS 1 and 2 learners.
"Most of these kids ultimately get admission to the world's finest college in the last five to six years.
"Gifted camp completed with complete scholarship in Cambridge, one just completed in Stanford, first-class in computer science last June, and Google instantly picked him up. "We see that every year. One thing we're attempting to get parents to understand is that you should help us train and grow them if you have a gifted child.
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"We've had a student who passed Cambridge advanced level at SS2 all the investments you need to create now is secondary school.
"Ibadan University gave him immediate admission when his friends still wrote Jamb. He ultimately received complete scholarship entry to Cambridge.
"He now has Masters and works to get Phd admission. So it's just an initial investment you're making and the world is taking over. "Miss Ojuba said it wasn't simple to prepare for the contest.
According to her: "I won first place in the KSF state as well as a silver medalist in the AMC contest. To me, winning is a reward for hard work because I've been studying for a lot of time.
"That's satisfactory. It wasn't simple to balance the job of the college. I remember that week I didn't even touch my textbooks because I was so worried about school work and other stuff, but I believe all worked well in the end, I hope I'll get a lot more prizes."
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