The prizegiving for this year's competition will be held at Bletchley Park on Friday April 1st. We have a number of tickets for the event to award to schools. To apply log in then use the online form at
These are always highly sought so do let us know as soon as possible how many you need and we will do what we can to accommodate you.
The event will include a tour of the museum and a lecture by Prof Chris Budd from Bath University. Chris is well known for his public lectures, most recently as one member of the Maths Inspiration show (see more on the website mathsinspiration). He is a National Teaching Fellow and in a lot of demand. He will be flying back from an overseas engagement especially for this event.
I hope to see as many of you as we can fit into the historic Ballroom at Bletchley.
All the best, Harry
Jealous though I am, given the complete lack of snow in our neck of the woods it seems only fair to take account of the widespread snow closures across our wintery landscape. In light of this we are postponing Challenge 7 to next Thursday (9th December) and will make it a one week challenge! Challenge 6 will close at midnight tonight as scheduled.
I hope that all will agree that this is fair to everyone. We will publish the leaders boards as usual tomorrow.
Complaints and comments on the forum please,
Harry
Congratulations to the following teams who have won prizes for Challenges 3A and 4A:
Winners of the Challenge 3A Prizes
Aaron Wellings Thomas Wellings Harish Kabba Owen Morgan Harvinder Kunor Joshua Wall Daniel Gibbs James Solly Rahul Verma from Sandwell Academy
Rebecca Young from South Wilts Grammar School for Girls
george fairbrother james mcmullan from boston spa school
Frogs alive from Hethersett High School & Science College
sam barnsley ben mellors tim hopkins danny quinn james kowalik from The Bewdley School
Ali Walji, Yasmin Walji, Luke Smalley from New College Stamford
Winners of the Challenge 4A Prizes
Melody Crafer from Southend High School for Girls
Beojan Daniel Aditya Nikhil Calum Jozef Jishanthan Jacob from Wilson's School
Luke Austen, Ollie Bradley from Bedales School
Ormrod-Morley, Rob Phythian, Nick Emery, Oliver McCloskey, Izzy Bell from The King's School, Macclesfield
Team cheese from Lawnswood
Duncan Wooder, Haroon Chughtai from Eltham College
KEVI from King Edward VI
Vicky from Millais school
There are three winners who have not confirmed their details with us yet for these prizes, so we have left them off the list for now. We will be chasing you up, but please do get in touch if we have contacted you. All the best, Harry
With 4 challenges complete there are a still 226 of you at the top of the leaderboard, maybe Challenge 5 will start to separate the pack a bit! (Maybe not, I will be veeeerrry (how should I spell that?) interested to see what happens this week.)
Anyway well done to everyone. We still have teams taking part, including one from Honolulu. (There are other "illegal, but we'll turn a blind eye" entries from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan - zoom out on the map on the front page to see.)
Have fun, Harry
After a short delay we can now announce the winners of Challenge 2A prizes. Each of the following teams has been awarded £25 which will be sent as a cheque. As usual a couple of teams have not got back to us to confirm their details, Optimus Prime's team from Nelson Thomlinson School and Enripisa from Queen Elizabeth's School. if you can get back to us we will make sure to process your prize too.
Prizes for Challenge 2A
Erm... from Queen Elizabeth's School
Jamie Rosenberg Michael Pettit from Hampton School
Phoebe Price Polly Harlow Amanda Allcock Ann Zhang Olivia Yu Fairooz Islam from Manchester High School for Girls
Hannah and Anna from St. Annes Catholic School
Saim Haider from King Edward VI Aston
Joanna Craufurd from Queen Mary's College
Winners for Challenge 3A will be announced here at the end of Challenge 4, but you will hear before then if you have been selected.
Harry