(From left): Aleeza Salie, Arun Sumathiratne and Praveen Athauda-Arachchi displaying their certificates  

Three Year-9 students from the British School in Colombo (BSC) Aleeza Salie, Arun Sumathiratne and Praveen Athauda-Arachchi displayed their mathematical skills and stole the limelight at the Infinity 2023 International Mathematics Competition, held at Atlas Skill Tech University in Mumbai, India recently.

In the individual rounds, Sumathiratne received a silver certificate and Athauda-Arachchi received a gold certificate in a competition that attracted 150 students in the senior category.

In the group round of Bulb Your Ideas, the BSC trio Salie, Sumathiratne and Athauda-Arachchi were selected as one of the top six teams out of 50 that took par. In the presentation of the competition’s final round, they were placed second.
 The event was hosted by the Aditya Birla World Academy (ABWA) in collaboration with BITS Pilani and the University of Waterloo (Faculty of Mathematics).