The Abel Prize

2014-03-24T20:00:40+01:00March 10th, 2014|

We are very proud and grateful that our students are able to take part in the Annual Norwegian Maths Competition – the Abel Prize.

The Olympiad consists of two selection rounds and a final round. In the first round, the participants receive twenty problems, each with a choice of five answers, to be solved in 100 minutes. The best 10% of the participants are then granted entry to the second round.  This Academic Year we had twenty-five students participating in Round 1 on November 7th, 2013 – out of a total of 3474 participants from 234 schools. Ten of them qualified for the 2nd Round on 16th January among the 345 participants from the rest of Norway, and three were invited to the finals in Trondheim on March 4th  with 25 other contestants.
Our congratulations go to Ricardo Montalvo Guzman who was placed 4th, to Yaojie Hu who was placed 5th, and Gong Pei who was 10th overall.
This year, Prime Minister Erna Solberg was present at the Prize Ceremony.

 

Fondo de la Mariposa

2018-10-16T09:33:58+01:00September 25th, 2013|

Åge Aleksandersen, a living legend in Norwegian rock’n roll, has set up a fund for Nicaraguan musicians, “Fondo de la Mariposa”, which gives monetary help to young musicians and bands in Nicaragua to help develop their musical careers. This year the band “CulturaFolk” was awarded the grant and our first-year student Marja Siu is the vocalist of this band!

Marja on stage during the concert in Oslo to receive the award

Marja Siu joining Åge Aleksandersen on stage in Oslo to receive a grant award

She was invited to the official ceremony on September 15th and 16th at Åge Alexandsersen’s concerts in Oslo. Marja received the official prize’s diploma on stage to tremendous applause.

“The experience was overwhelming. I thank the College, Åge and his family for making this opportunity possible” was Marja’s comment on return to campus.

Congratulations from all of us, Marja!

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