Friday, September 25, 2015

The most outstanding awards

Hello readers,

I am going to tell you about some of my most outstanding award at school.

The trophies I got in elementary
                   My school was always in Cita Hati school, East Campus. If you do not know, there is this award called the most outstanding award, which is given to about 4 students in each class who have the best character and good in academics. The first time I got this trophy, I was in the 1st grade. At that time, I was really happy when I got it because, that is my 1st trophy I ever got from school in my entire life so it was pretty nice.

My 8th grade trophy
                   I was so happy about this achievement that I tried to get the trophy every year. I tried my best them I did it. I collected the trophies until the 5th grade. Unfortunately, I did not get the 6th and 7th grade trophy. But the good news is that last year , I got the grade 8 trophy. My goal is that I want to get the most outstanding award this year.
  

Thursday, September 24, 2015

My SMALA competiton

Hello readers, 

I am going to tell you about my SMALA competition with Phillip Harmadi.

                 I joined a competition a few months ago in May. It was a team competition , and I was invited by him to join this competition with him. This is a Mathematics and Physics competition called the S2LC competition. I was excited for this competition even though I am not to good at Physics subject , but I am just going to try this. This competition is held by SMALA , Sma Negeri 5 Surabaya. The competition I think is in May 10th 2015.

                 The day of the competition, I was nervous , but Phillip looked confident. We then came into our assigned rooms, then we do this competition. It was about 240 teams that joined this competition, and the quarter finals was 30 teams. In the same day, the results were in. Amazingly , thanks to God, me and Phillip got the 11th spot, then we advanced to the quarter finals. But , the quarter finals were really difficult. So then , we lost on the quarter finals.

The quarter finals certificate of S2LC competition
                 Even though we lost , I am still happy with my achievements and I will be studying harder for the next competition I will be joining. I felt flattered with my score.
                 

The ICAS competition 2014

Hello readers,


I am going to tell you guys about me joining the ICAS competition.

There is this competition, as you know called ICAS competition. This competition is hosted by the UNSW Global, Australia. The first time I joined the ICAS competition is when I was in the 4th grade, which was in Mathematics. I was taught in school after I went home from school. I was so happy that I was chosen by the school to participate in this event. For me, this competition is really fun because at that time, this competition is the only competition I have ever participated in. At the competition day, I was really happy and kind of nervous.
The 2014 Certificate
After a few months, the results were given to me. I was satisfied with my score, at that time , I got the rank distinction. Distinction is the result of the students that is in the top 10% that joined in this competition. The rankings from the highest ranking are High Distinction(the top 1%), Distinction(next 10 %), credit(next 25%), merit(next 10%), finally participant, which is the rest of the participant.
I joined the Icas competition from the 4th grade until the 9th grade.The result in the 4th until the 8th grade was given to me and I wa happy in all of the results. All that I remember is that all of my scores are Distincion. Even though I never win a medal, I am still happy about the results. Right now, I am still waiting for the result in the 9th grade ICAS competition I join. My grade 8 score was satisfying. I got a 33/40 score, I was in the top 5% in the competition.
The Statistics of 2014 ICAS competition
My feeling of joining this competition is pretty happy because I can experience new challenges in my life that I have never experienced about, and I want to thank God for letting me do this and my family for always supporting me for letting me join some especially ICAS competition.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The 10 years of KUMON

Hello readers.

I am going to tell you about my KUMON journey from 2005 to 2015

                First of all , I started Kumon when I was 4 years old, 22 August 2005 to be exact. I started my journey on Kumon Margorejo Indah. I learned Mathematics there. At first , I have no clue of anything when I started learning there. A few years past, then I started being friends with the teachers there, and made new friends. But after a while there , I started to get used to the environment there. Then a friend of my mom, told her to for me try Kumon English. At that time, the best English course in Surabaya was in Manyar Ketoardi, which is really close to my school, which is Cita Hati elementary school. Then my mother agreed to her friend, then I started to do Kumon English there at 1 February 2008 and I was 7 years old. It was actually a hard time at that time because at that time, I had to do my course at Kumon English which is located in Manyar Ketoardi when I came home from school, after that I have to do my course at Kumon Math which is located at Margorejo Indah, near my house. 

                This happened from 2008 , which was when I started kumon English, until 2009. After that , me and my mother started to tink ,"Hey, this is not efficient". Then I thought about that too. So, after a while, I said to the owner of the Kumon in Margorejo Indah that this is inefficient, so I got out of that Kumon and continue my journey at Kumon Manyar Ketoardi when I was 8. At Manyar Ketoardi, I met a lot of people that i have seen at Cita Hati, so I was actually really happy. Then, I got used to the environment. I studied there for awhile. Then I got a letter from them. It said that I got an achievement that I was 5 years and above beyond school grade level, and I was invited to a converence which was located at Supermall / PTC which is located in the West side of Surabaya. I was so excited because of what I heard is that I will get a trophy for getting this achievement, so I was really excited at that time.

                The time has come for me getting the trophy. I went inside the ballroom. It is a huge place where the parents and kids were seperated . The kids were in the front and the parents were in the back. This event happened to be on Sunday, and the event happened a couple of hours. I was given a seat next to my friends. It was getting a little bit boring for me and my friends. They were just saying about all of After that, when the event is going to end, they started giving us the trophies, then they asked us to go to the stage to get a photo session. The photo session is seperated by age. After that, I went home. I was really proud of my achievements because I never went to the conference before. My achievement in 2009 is my 3rd getting the trophy . My first one was when I was still in my old kumon course. After a while in kumon, I started meeting a lot of friends there, started being friends with the teachers there. 

                On the start of 2014, some of my friends started finishing kumon one by one. I started to lose hope on finishing kumon. At that time I was about level N in kumon Mathematics and K level in kumon English. Mathematics kumon ended on O level, and English kumon ended on L level.In Mathematics kumon, I wanted to continue, I can continue to level X. It is an addition to kumon Mathematics. This level consisted of XT, XV, XM, XP, and XS. After seeing that I almost finish both of my kumon subjects, I regained hope. So I started blazing through kumon Mathematics’ N level and English’ K level, after that, I finished the L level in kumon English, and finished the final test on the 24th of December 2014, and I finished the level O in Mathematics kumon and finished the final test in the 20th  of February 2014. Then , I decided to continue to the X level on kumon Mathematics.


                 I targeted myself to finish 3 months after I finish the final test of Mathematics kumon. That means to reach my target in May 2015. But at the end , I finished the X level in August 2015, which was 3 months of my target. Even though I did not reach my target, I was really happy because I finished kumon. For me , kumon made a huge impact for my life. Because of this course, I really like Mathematics right now, and I have joined some Mathematics competition.

This is some pictures of my trophies from Kumon:
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

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2013
2014
The trophy of Completing Kumon
                                                                                                                         





All of the trophies I got