Competitive Kids STEM

New Year, New Dreams, New Successes!

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:08:33 -0800

Hello CKSTEM Families,

Welcome to 2025 – the best year of our lives so far!

How do we know that 2025 will be the best year yet? We must believe it to manifest every year to be better than the last. If we don’t believe in ourselves, who will?

Let’s get started by setting some goals and making them public.

Why make them public rather than keeping them private? The answer is simple: if we lack the courage to share our goals and our progress (even within a supportive group), we are likely to lose motivation to achieve them. Only those who are brave enough to make their goals and progress public can truly track their progress and receive the support and encouragement they need.

Sometimes, when we set a challenging goal (which often feels more like a dream), we may not know how to achieve it. The first step in the process is to overcome the fear of failure.

Once we overcome that fear and commit to our goals, the next step is to break the dream goal down into small, actionable parts. This is where the power of setting atomic goals comes in. It feels amazing to accomplish these small goals every day. When we do, endorphins flow through our bodies and make us happier. Just a 1% improvement every day can lead to a 365% improvement by the end of the year. This is...Read More

BBB Final 2026 Results

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:22:23 -0700

BBB Heat 2026 Results

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:55:27 -0800

Big Bay Bei Olympiad - Heat Round 2026

BBB (Big Bay Bei) is the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad, an international math Olympiad organized by OCEC (Hong Kong). It is commonly run in two stages: the Heat Round and the Final Round.

The contest emphasizes logical reasoning, number sense, pattern-spotting, and multi-step problem solving—skills that transfer directly to classroom math and beyond.

The Greater Bay Area includes Hong Kong and Macao, along with nine major cities in Guangdong Province (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing).

Canada 2026 highlights:

🥇 Gold Awards: 9
🥈 Silver Medals: 32
🥉 Bronze Medals: 24
⭐ Merit Awards: 3
🎖️ Participation Certificates: 6

Grade leaders (top score in each grade group)

Grade 2: 🥉 Hrivaan Homroy
Grade 3: 🥈 Aarna Patel
Grade 4: 🥇 Arya Mohan Kumar
Grade 5: 🥇 Nishi Patel
Grade 6: 🥈 Jacob Woo
Grade 7: 🥈 Sharanya Das
Grade 8: 🥇 Hayden Bhairo
Grade 9: 🥇 Isaac Fong
Senior Secondary: 🥇...Read More

TIMO Final 2026 Results

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:00:47 -0800

Thailand International Mathematical Olympiad (TIMO)

Canada delivered an outstanding performance at the TIMO Final Round 2025–2026. Our students earned 9 Gold, 8 Silver, 7 Bronze medals, and 6 Merit awards.

These results reflect more than strong math skills — they reflect consistent practice, smart strategy, and the courage to tackle unfamiliar problems under pressure.

Special recognition goes to Aadhya Patel (Grade 5), Isaac Fong (Grade 9), and Cadence Kam (Grade 9) for achieving the top scores among our award recipients.

🥇 9 Gold Medals
🥈 8 Silver Medals
🥉 7 Bronze Medals
⭐ 6 Merit Awards

NOTATIONS

🥇Gold Medal, 🥈Silver Medal, 🥉Bronze Medal, ️⭐ Honorable

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS

🥇 Akshaj Goyal (Grade 3)
🥇 Aadhya Patel (Grade 5)
🥇 Jacob Woo (Grade 6)

Beavers Computing - 2025 Results

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:21:00 -0800

About the Bebras Challenge

Beavers Computing (Bebras) is an international contest that builds computational thinking through engaging, logic-based tasks. Students complete a timed set of multiple-choice problems appropriate for their age category.

Bebras awards certificates to the top 25% students. However, CKSTEM students did extremely well, and 63% of our students won awards, and most others scored above the 50^th percentile.

Award Winners by Age Group

Kits (Age 6-8)

Akshaj Goyal (Best in School)
Saisha Negi (Distinction)
Aarna Patel (Distinction)

Castors (Age 8-10)

Vehant Induru (Best in School)
Anna Huang (Distinction)
Diya Madan (Distinction)
Arya Mohan Kumar (Distinction)
Alay Parikh (Distinction)
Vyan Pratikkumar Patel (Distinction)

Benjamins (Age 10-12)

Jacob Woo (Best in School)
Aditya Halder (Distinction)
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TIMO Heat 2025 Results

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:54:28 -0800

Thailand International Mathematical Olympiad (TIMO)

The Thailand International Mathematical Olympiad (TIMO) is an annual competition organized by the Olympiad Champion Education Center (OCEC) and the Thailand Mathematics Society. While most Mathematical Olympiad competitions focus on 0.1% of elite students, TIMO provides an opportunity for ALL students with strong mathematical interests to participate.

Canadian students did extremely well in this year's TIMO Heat round and won many medals.

🥇 1 Perfect Score (0 in 2024)
🥇 15 Gold Medals (5 in 2024)
🥈 15 Silver Medals (12 in 2024)
🥉 26 Bronze Medals (26 in 2024)
🎗️ 8 Merit Awards (8 in 2024)

Congratulations! We are very proud of your achievements. Medal winners are invited to participate in the TIMO Finals. The contest will take place on Feb 6, 2026, at ~6 pm ET (exact time will be announced later). Enrollment for the finals will close on January 15th. You can find more details Read More

Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC 2025)

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:04:57 -0700

Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC 2025) Winners

First run in 1978, the Australian Mathematics Competition is Australia’s longest-running, largest and most well-known maths competition for school students.

The AMC contains unique problems designed each year by leading educators and academics to challenge and extend your students’ problem-solving skills.

We are proud to announce the results of AMC 2025.

Special Mentions

Thank you, Diya, Shreenandita, Mrida, Kavangun, and Ansh, for volunteering to run the training program. We appreciate your hard work and commitment.

Prize Award

Generally awarded to no more than 1 student for every 300 students within a region and year group. Prize winners are given a lapel pin and a voucher for our online shop. The value of the voucher may vary year by year.

Ansh Agarwal (Senior - Year 12)

High Distinction Award

Awarded to a student in the top 3% of their year and region (top 5% for Senior...Read More

HKIMO Global Final 2025

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:19 -0700

Hong Kong International Mathematical Olympiad (HKIMO) Winners

HKIMO is one of the most popular global Olympiads. Canadian students performed exceptionally in the Global Finals. All of our students won the award in this contest. We have

🥇 6 Gold Medals
🥈 7 Silver Medals
🥉 7 Bronze Medals
🎗️ 2 Merit Awards

IMPORTANT NOTATIONS

🥇Gold Medal, 🥈Silver Medal, 🥉Bronze Medal, 🎗️Merit Award

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS

🥇 HAYDEN BHAIRO (Grade 7)
🥇 ISAAC FONG (Grade 8)
🥇 HRIDITYA PATEL (Grade 9)
🥇 ASHWIN SANKAR (Senior Secondary)
🥇 DIYA PANDEY (Senior Secondary)
🥇 ANSH AGARWAL (Senior Secondary)

SILVER MEDAL WINNERS

Hong Kong International Mathematical Olympiad (HKIMO)
HKIMO is one of the most popular global olympiad. Canadian students performed exceptionally in the international heat (semi-final) round. 95% of our students won the award in this contest. We have
- 🥇 15 Gold Medals
- 🥈 19 Silver Medals
- 🥉 14 Bronze Medals
- 🎗️ 8 Merit Awards
Special Mention: We want to highlight the folowing students for doing extremely well in the contests.
- IRÉ OGUNGBEMILE
- AKSHAJ GOYAL
- AADHYA PATEL
- NISHI PATEL
- SHREENANDITA DAS
Congratulations Everyone! We are very proud of your achievements. You are invited to attend the award ceremony on Jun 7^th. You can find the details of the ceremony Read More

BBB Final 2025 Results

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:21:27 -0700

Big Bay Bei Olympiad - Global Final Round 2025

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (Big Bay Bei) is an annual international Olympiad competition organized by OCEC from Hong Kong. Canadian students performed exceptionally in the BBB Final Contest and all participants won the medal. This shows that our students are performing well above rest of the world. 30 participating students won 30 medals!

🥇 5 Gold Awards
🥈 9 Silver Medals
🥉 16 Bronze Medals

Congratulations to all participants! We are very proud of your achievements.

Special Mention: Akshaj Goyal (grade 2), Aadhya Patel (Grade 4), and Dahlia Takawy (Grade 5) were the highest scorers in Canada across all grades. Well done Akshaj, Aadhya, and Dahlia!

WIMO Updates: As 3 students have won gold medals in 2 global finals, they are now qualified for the prestigious World...Read More