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Australian Maths Trust

Olympiad team’s success highlights bright future for women in maths

24 April 2019 This month, four talented Aussie girls represented Australia in the 2019 European Girls Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) in Kyiv, Ukraine. Our team competed against 196 young women from 49 countries and achieved an outstanding result, winning two silver medals and two honorable mentions for Australia. The team smashed expectations with Australia placing 14th

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March Camp 2019

The 2019 AMOC Selection School and the final bit of training for the 2019 EGMO team was held at Naamaroo, Lane Cove National Park, on the traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people, surrounded by resident water dragons, kookaburras, ducks, and possums. Much fun has been had hanging out with EGMO team members new and old. The

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Meet our EGMO team!

2019 Australian EGMO team

Eugeniya Artemova Year 12, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, VIC Eugeniya’s love of mathematics has been nurtured by her parents from a young age. She enjoys mathematics because of the intrinsic satisfaction of finding a neat solution to a problem that at first, may have seemed unsolvable. Outside of mathematics, Eugeniya likes to spend her time reading

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Kyiv 2019, here we come!

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate at the Australian EGMO Team Announcement hosted by AMSI in Melbourne. After a Saturday morning of past EGMO problems (thanks Norm!) and a tough afternoon thinking about far too many mutually external circles and driving along tangent lines in cars fitted with laser beams (thanks Ivan!), it

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