Nigerians are proud as Faith Odunsi,15, emerged the winner of the Global Open Mathematics Tournament, an international competition with participants from Europe, Africa, America, Asia, and Australia.
Ms. Faith, an SS3 student from Ijebu in Ogun state shared her experience winning the global competition in an interview with newsmen.
According to her, winning the “tough competition” made her happy and honoured.
Faith narrated how she excelled in different stages of the contest to emerge the overall winner.
“In the first stage, there was a computer-based test and we had to answer many questions in one hour. My score in the test was 66. The second stage took the same format and I also scored 66. “The quarter and semi-finals were on Microsoft themes. We were asked questions and we put in our answers; the first to put in the correct answers got 10 points.”
Speaking about how she prepared, Faith said she made sure the
competition did not affect her academic activities adding that after school period , she had another class with her teacher who coached her for the contest
She also said she studied at night from 11pm to 12am.
As the winner of the contest, Faith was presented with a monetary award of $1,000 (N379,000, according to the CBN’s current exchange rate).
She added that the organisers said they would come for the official presentation of the award.
Before winning the global contest, Faith had in 2018 set a record in Cowbellpedia by answering 19 questions in 60 seconds.
She intends to study Computer Engineering for her tertiary education.
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