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Tuesday, 10 May 2022 Student Dren Neziri received the Golden award at the Jurij Vega Awards Competition

After a successful performance at the International Mathematical Kangaroo organized by the DMFA of Slovenia and receiving the Bronze award, Dren Neziri, a UP FAMNIT student, entered the national Jurij Vega Awards Competition, which took place on April 23 in Ljubljana.

At the 7th Student Mathematics Jurij Vega Awards Competition (also organized by DMFA), Dren Neziri took an excellent 3rd place and thus received the Golden award and 3rd Prize.


Dren Neziri at the Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition 2022

In addition to Famnit's student, Tamara Logar (UP FVZ) also took part in the national competition, which was attended by 35 students, and received a silver award.

The competition for students in mathematics was first held in the school year 2006/07 and covers two levels of competition: the school competition for the Bronze award and the national competition for the Silver and Golden awards.

In addition to popularizing mathematics, the organizers of the competition strive to deepen and expand mathematical knowledge over the complexity of the regular program in mathematics for higher education. Moreover, such an event is a good starting point for comparison between students and for discovering and encouraging mathematically gifted students.

The tasks for the school competition, which this year was attended by 402 competitors (21 of them from the University of Primorska), are prepared by the International Mathematical Kangaroo Competition Commission, and the tasks for the national competition are in the domain of the National Competition Commission.

»The school competition required a bit more coordination compared to the national competition, as students competed in several locations at the same time. Both competitions, school and national, are of the same format, but the tasks in the national competition are of course more demanding. Solving tasks with encirclement certainly facilitates the work of the commission, as the data processing process is easier and faster,« said dr. Nino Bašić from the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies at UP FAMNIT, Secretary of the National Competition Commission.

All the results are available here.