Representing SA in Maths & Informatics

Andi Qu is a Grade 11 learner from St John's College in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg. Awarded his South African blazer and colours for Mathematics and Computer Programming respectively in March 2019, the Clayton House 2020 prefect also holds school honours in academics and music.

Photo credit: Courtesy of 'Computer Olympiad".

Congratulations on winning the gold medal and Standard Bank Trophy at the 36th annual National Programming Olympiad 2019 at Standard Bank's Global Leadership Centre in Johannesburg, bringing the coveted prize back in Gauteng after three years in Western Cape.

He likes computational geometry, enjoys “cool, ad-hoc problems” more than the “maths and data structure questions”, plans to study computer science and "probably AI".

Article credit: Courtesy of 'North Eastern Tribune (Friday, 18th October 2019) newspaper p.11/16'. Read the full online article here.

Well done to Andi Qu awarded third place out of over 91,000 competitors in the senior competition of the 2019 SAMO (South African Mathematics Olympiad) by the SAMF (South African Mathematics Foundation) during their annual gala dinner and prize-giving held on Saturday 14th September 2019 in Gordon's Bay, Cape Town.

He also helped St John's College be recognised as the top school in Gauteng for 2019.

Source credit: Courtesy of 'Rosebank Killarney Gazette (Friday, 25th October 2019) newspaper' p.8/16. Click here to read the full digital article.

Representing SA in Informatics

Proud of Andi Qu for placing 201 out of 325 participants from 86 countries during the 31st International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 4th to 7th August 2019.

He helped the four-member team representing SA achieve the highest ranked African country and second best in the Southern Hemisphere.

Source credit: Courtesy of 'Computer Olympiad'. Read further in this 'Stellenbosch University Engineering' online article here.

Representing SA in Mathematics

Well done to Andi Qu, awarded a 'Honourable mention' (and missing the medal cutoff by 2 places) at the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Bath, United Kingdom from 11th to 22nd July 2019.

Competing against 621 competitors, he helped SA move up from 62th to 46th out of 112 participating countries.

Source credit: Courtesy of 'Facebook / South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF) & Liberty Group SA'. Click here to read further.

Source credit: Courtesy of 'Facebook / South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF)'.

Article credit: Courtesy of 'Rosebank Killarney Gazette (Friday, 12th July 2019) newspaper p. 11/16'. Click here to read the full digital article.

Proud of Andi Qu for winning a silver medal by placing 6th overall as one of six high school learners selected to represent South Africa against twelve other African countries in the 27th Pan African Mathematics Olympiad (PAMO) held at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg on Sunday 7th April 2019. Team South Africa finished second behind Morocco.

Photo credit: Courtesy of 'Southern Suburbs Tatler (Thursday 11th April 2019) newspaper'. Read the full online article here.

Watch Andi and his teammates interviewed during a Cape Town TV feature.

Video credit: Courtesy of 'YouTube / Cape Town TV'

Mathematics

Congratulations to Andi Qu, Captain of the ten-member Wits Siyanqoba Senior Team A, for winning the 2019 ASSA (Actuarial Society of SA) Mathematics Team Competition. They received their ASSA trophy and sponsored Casio watches during the SAMF (South African Mathematics Foundation) annual award function on the Saturday 14th September 2019 in Gordon’s Bay Cape Town.

Source credit: Courtesy of 'South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF)'. Click here to read further.

"Baie geluk" to Andi Qu, the R 5,000 winner of the Northern provinces in the 'Beeld, Die Burger en Volksblad Mathematics Online Competition' in 2018.

He also placed 2nd overall in the senior section of the Wits University Maths Competition 2018 and was awarded a gold medal in the grade 9-10 section of the International Mathematics Assessments for Schools (IMAS) 2018.

Article credit: Courtesy of 'Beeld (Friday, 3rd August 2018) newspaper'. Read the full online article here.

Well done to Andi Qu, the 2017 SAMO (South African Mathematics Olympiad) Junior section winner for grades 8 and 9 at the Krystal Beach Hotel in Gordon's Bay, Cape Town. He was the runner-up in 2016.

Article credit: Courtesy of 'South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF)'. Click here to read further in this 'Rising Sun Chatsworth (Tuesday, 3rd October 2017) newspaper digital article.

Article credit: Courtesy of 'North Eastern Tribune' (Friday, 13th October 2017) newspaper p.7/16'. Read the full online article here.

Andi also represented Wits Siyanqoba Junior A team, which came first overall in the 2017 ASSA Mathematics Team Competition on Saturday, 9th September 2017.

“Andi excels in all spheres, scientific and the arts. He enjoys problem solving, mathematical challenges and advanced mathematics. He is passionate about scholarly learning and is a humble learner.” ~ Dr Belinda Huntley, Regional Coordinator of the Wits Siyanqoba Maths Olympiad Centre

Source credit: Courtesy of 'South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF)'. Click here to read the full digital article.

Computer Programming

"I think it's great that high school students get an opportunity to be exposed to difficult problems like these." ~ Anqi Qu

Proud of Andi Qu, awarded a bronze medal in the South African Programming Olympiad 2018 at Standard Bank's Global Leadership Centre in Johannesburg.

The youngest Top 10 finalist was joined by his mother Seisha, sister Anqi and father Jack. Anqi Qu is Head Girl 2019 at St Mary's School Waverley in Johannesburg. Learn more about her here.

Source credit: Courtesy of 'Computer Olympiad.

Some of Andi's other programming achievements include:

One of 54 Grand-prize winners for Apertium in the Google Code-In 2018, an annual international competition where high-school learners contribute to various open-source organizations by completing tasks;
Platinum division competitor in the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO);
Bronze medalist in the Asian Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2019); and
3rd round qualifier for the Google Code Jam 2019.

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