Master
AdegokeAromolaran of BiboOluwa Academy Ilesa, Osun State has disclosed that his
love for Mathematics is like a calming pill he uses anytime he is tensed up.
Aromolaran who contested in the senior category of the on-going preliminary rounds of the 2016
Cowbellpedia Mathematics Television Quiz Show explained that his love for
Mathematics started early from his Primary School days at Ilesa.
He added that the subject, which scares a lot
of students, comes naturally to him. “It is my pain killer. Any time I am
stressed up, I simply took my Mathematics textbook and work up a sum, and that
is it. To me, Mathematics is fun, plenty of fun. And anytime, I am not working
mathematics, I hang out in my mummy’s shop,” he said.
He also
praised his teacher and the school management which he said provided a
conduciveatmosphere for talents to boom among the students.
Aromolaran,
one of the eight that had a perfect score in the qualifying examination,
expressed confidence of a good outing in the competition. He wants to study Mechanical
engineeringand hopes to invent cheaper electricity for the benefit of the
nation.
He equally wants
to make his parents and Osun state proud by coming top in this year’s
competition. “This is my first time in the Cowbellpedia Mathematics Competition
and I want to make the best of it. The competition is tough, but only the tough
can get to the top,” he told journalists in Lagos.
The soft
spoken SSS 2 student scored 110 points in the first and second rounds of the
competition to join Kenneth Nwagu of Graceland International School, Port
Harcourt, Rivers State in the semi-final stage of the competition.
Aromolaran
also prays he wins the ultimate prize of one million naira and an all-expenses
paid educational excursion outside the country.
Promasidor
has also promised that the first and the second runners-up will go home with
N750, 000 and N500, 000 respectively. There will also be plaques, mathematics
textbooks and a desktop computer for the winners.
Parents and
stakeholders in the education sector have also lauded Promasidor Nigeria
Limited for investing in this initiative which is aimed at discovering and
celebrating young scientists and future inventors in the country.
In the 2015
edition, students of Adeyemi Demonstration Secondary School, Ondo, Ondo state
and Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja emerged winners. While AyodejiAkinkuowo of
Adeyemi Demonstration College won in the senior category, Munachi Ernest-Eze of
Loyola Jesuit won in the junior category.
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