As many as you like, as long as they all have the same email domain
The OMC is designed for individuals.
For Qualifiers, teachers control student admin, starting, marking and ranking rounds and then issuing transcripts from within their school.
For Finals, just issue tickets to individuals and we will then take care of everything else.
Primary level is targeted for 9 years and older, through to Senior level targeted at 19 years and younger.
The smallest packages contain one category of three rounds. WMC Qualifiers have 9 rounds. WMC Finals involve up to 12 rounds.
All three in equal measure.
Intrinsic contentment from maximum engagment is the most rewarding prize possible.
Certificates are awarded categories of 3 rounds.
Transcripts are awarded after 9 round Qualifers.
Medals and transcripts are awared in the Finals.
Access for any number of students within a school to engage in all rounds of the package purchased.
Please let us know which subjects you would like and what involvement you will offer to help make them happen! We currently offer Mathematics and Computing, although we do have a few other subjects in the planning stage to hopefully introduce soon.
Yes definitely! Each institution purchase the same package, print some rounds out (Lightning, Shuttle, Pursuit) and get together to run those rounds.Contact us for more support...
When you have registered as the main organiser for a competition, you do of course receive logistical updates about that event and a summary communication soon afterwards. If you wish for your account to be deleted (it is needed because of autobots), just email us from said account with the mail title: OPT OUT and we will remove that email account from the site.
You only really need to do what you would like to do, this is mainly logistical planning and execution to showcase your institution to your guests. You don't have to do:
Their participant registration/payment admin
Source transcripts
Write the questions for the rounds
Pay for anything directly relating the the rounds - just for your own provisions, for which you choose if you’d like to bill your guests for.
This said, if your institution would prefer to take on some of these chores, then we are open to discuss this!
You will showcase your establishment as a World Mathematics Championships® host venue.
Photos can be recognised in our past venues gallery too!
This is a fantastic and unique professional development opportunity for up-and-coming leaders, academic support and subject specific teams to grow in this developmental area of forward-thinking assessment.
You can get significant social credit for comparatively little input.
The possibility for more of your students to enjoy some rounds independently and concurrently.
You may be offered the opportunity to be a guest in a subsequent competitions.
We encourage hosts to offer two.
Either Senior (age 16-19) and Secondary (~age 11-13) during march
Or Junior (~age 13-16) and Primary (~age 9-11) during October.
This facilitites the Inspiration and Innovation rounds to incorporate the most powerful forms of learning - lessons and presentations respectively.
Any within the month that the competition is open for - October or March. Schools normally choose 2 consecutive days (weekends minimise normal school disruption).
If you are a boarding school and considering being a sustainable partner, then it is most sensible to choose a holiday time when the boarding house is not being used.
The is your event and so as many as you'd like! We believe between 90-180 children has the best overall dynamics.
All teams contain 3 members, so by offering two levels concurrently, this is a maximum of 30 teams per level.
Approximately:
Opening welcome: usually in a large hall/conference room
Regional rounds: Usually in an auditorium/sports hall/classrooms.
Gala Celebration: usually in a large hall/conference room.
Basically, you decide what the most appropriate arrangement will be, it depends upon your location and the local demand. Ideally, they will stay at home. If there are not enough local participants, then some institutions may travel, and so this is easiest in your residential block during a time when it is vacated.
Alternatively, it will be in the nearest hotel style accommodation. To satisfy most school risk assessments for this type of trip, accommodation must be at least 3* international standard.
It is your event and so this is decided by you and your responsibility. We advise arrival and departure from the whole event to be in conjunction with your accommodation provision.
Yes, absolutely if you wish! Some hosts prefer to hire in a 'big name' and have them involved throughout their institution for the whole week, this also costs big money. So you decide what value and experience you would like to provide and have.
It is your event and so this is decided by you and your responsibility. We advise for you to choose appropriate food for both the location and number of participants. Allergies/dietary requirements etc must be considered. It is wise to consider the following:
Snacks for the mornings
Lunch during the full days
Evening meals, including the grander Gala celebration, the final activity of the event.
The are all provided online within the package purchased. You may choose to download and print pdf versions of up to 3 rounds (Lightning, Pursuit, Shuttle). You may also choose your own offline version of Duel, Inspiration and Innovation rounds, or use ones we provide.
A different adult adjudicator being the lead invigilator for each round is preferable.
For logistical ease, We strongly advise for you to offer Confidence, Codebreakers and Crypto rounds online.
We advise to include local cultural connections within the opening welcome activity.
We have a tried and tested 2-day schedule template suggesed here.
We can agree what you would like to source and what you would like us to provide. They often include things like:
Name tag and lanyard (inserts generated by us)
Programme (you just create a few of the pages and we do the rest)
t-shirt/Hoodie
Water bottle
CapThis said, we are very mindful about our carbon footprint and are actively considering ways to minimise this.
We advise to utilise a school club and/or staff member(s) who can provide this, they can also have an account to upload into your specific regional gallery link on our homepage.
You may gather your own extra sponsors and use their donations as you wish, but all advertising materials should be smaller than that of our longer-term partnerships; and include our logo on all publicity materials.
It is your event and so this your responsibility and decided by you.
As many as you like, it is an individual competition.
Yes - it is designed for individuals.
Teachers may enter students. After automated online payment, all they need to do is share individual username and passwords.
Or share the information with students/parents and let them choose to register independently. If schools would like a traditional bank transfer invoice, then a SGD50 or 10% (whichever is greater) administration fee is required.
Primary level is targeted for 9 years and older, through to Senior level targeted at 19 years and younger.
Four rounds: Confidence, Duel, Codebreakers and Crypto - lasting 30 minutes each.
Intrinsic contentment from maximum engagment is the most rewarding prize possible.
Certificates are awarded after each challenge.
Entry to play all four rounds across the specified advertised time.
Yes definitely! The WMC is probably more appropriate.Contact us if you would like to discuss it more...
When you have registered as the main organiser for a competition, you do of course receive logistical updates about that event and a summary communication soon afterwards. If you wish for your account to be deleted (it is needed because of autobots), just email us from said account with the mail title: OPT OUT and we will remove that email account from the site.
As many as you like.
Yes - it is designed for individuals. If you are not in a team of 3, we will help place you into a team with others in a similar suitation.
Teachers may enter students. After automated online payment, all they need to do is share individual username and passwords.
Or share the information with students/parents and let them choose to register independently. If schools would like a traditional bank transfer invoice, then a SGD50 or 10% (whichever is greater) administration fee is required.
The WCC organises four contests every year, in October, December, February and April. We encourage students to attend as many competitions as they can, as each one is another opportunity to practise programming skills.
The WCC is currently only offered at Junior Level, which is intended for students from ages 13 - 16. The lower limit is a guideline to ensure students have gained enough experience to understand our questions, while the upper limit is an enforced limit.
We believe differentiation for learning should be based upon experience and exposure to concepts rather than physical age. We therefore have the limits as described in the answer above. Youths need to be in the specified school Grade/Year or equivalent during the month of the Preliminary or Qualifier that they are participating in. If that month is during the school long holidays, they are still considered to be in the Grade/Year they have just completed.
The WCC Contests currently have six rounds, which have been categorised into 5 categories. You can read more about our rounds here
All three in equal measure. While there exists a healthy competitive spirit throughout, emphasis is on providing opportunities to build friendships with your peers; this is emphasized through the Team category. Subject-specific knowledge is required to be of a very high standard. All participating youths need to have adequate programming knowledge.
Each of the 6 rounds are ranked and individuals have their 6 ranks summed. Those who perform well are awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates in each of the 5 categories. All youths recieve a transcript with a breakdown of their achievement in each category and round.
In the future, we hope to invite the better performing individuals in WCC contests to an in-person final round.
The best source of practise is working on your computer science practical syllabus in school. Advanced participants may also take part in online competitions, such as those on CodeForces. For the Decode and Debug rounds, we've set up sample questions on our website here
We keep a list of updated programming languages for each round here, along with instructions for each round.
