9 June 2023
Students from KZN’s top boys’ schools have recorded some notable academic achievements recently, with learners from Hilton College, Durban High School and Saint Charles College all excelling at a national level.
National English Olympiad
Up against over 5 800 students in the National English Olympiad (for English Home Language), Hilton’s Khanya Mhlongo (left, in feature photo) placed within the top 12 in South Africa. Outstanding!
Mhlongo, who is in grade 12, has since been invited to the 2023 National Schools Festival in Makhanda, which takes place from 27-30 June.
Bulgaria International Mathematics Competition
Meanwhile, Cayden Diener (right, in feature photo), a grade 8 student at DHS, has been selected in one of four official South African teams, each made up of four members, to contest the Bulgaria International Mathematics Competition (BIMC) 2023.
Incredibly, he was up against scholars from grade 8 to grade 12 for a place in one of the teams. All of them received the same training and took the same tests. What a monumental achievement!
Diener will travel to Bloemfontein towards the end of the month for a week of training and preparation for the BMIC, which will be written online on Monday, 3 July.
Last year, when he was in grade 7 at Glenwood Prep, he won the Horizon Maths Competition, which drew over 5 000 entrants. On that occasion, he said he loved to solve the unsolvable, and he hopes to become a doctor or an astronomer.
2023 Aqualibrium National Competition
Finally, a team of three Saint Charles College boys – Thandolwethu Zama (Grade 9), Daniel Gurney (Grade 9) and Jonathan Oberholzer (Grade 10) – recently placed second nationally in the 2023 Aqualibrium National Competition.
The event was hosted by the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) at the Sci-Bono Science Centre in Johannesburg.
Focusing on an area of critical concern in South Africa – one needs only recall the KZN floods of April 2022 – the competition placed an emphasis on the importance of water distribution systems for the supply of safe and clean drinking water.
It also promoted mathematics and science at school level, and civil engineering as a tertiary education option.
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