2012 TAIMC
Farewell Speech
Wen Hsien Sun
Chairman, the Executive Board of the
International Mathematics Competition.
President, Chiu Chang Mathematics
Education Foundation.
Mathematics is not
only a knowledge
of human,
but also a cultural.
Mathematics is a
spirit!
Honoured Guests, Parents,
Teachers and Contestants,
Did you all have a good
time during the past days?
It is really exciting to have
so many talented young
people gathered in one
place at the same time for
a common goal.
To the medal winners, I offer my
sincere congratulations!
To the other contestants, take this as
a learning experience and work harder.
If you are still eligible next year, I am
sure you will come back and get better
results. If you are no longer eligible,
there are other competitions for you to
try. The world is getting more and
more technological, and a strong
background in mathematics is an
essential foundation for future success.
The most important role of TAIMC is the
opportunity to provide all students from
five continents, an avenue to make
friends with people of your age from
other countries.
For me, the World Conference on the
Mathematically Gifted Students - the
role of Educators and Parents,
mathematical puzzle challenge to break
through the barrier and the cultural
night performance are the focus of our
attention for the entire event .
When you go back to your
own country, please share
all the experiences that
you encountered here in
TAIMC to your family,
classmates and friends.
Encourage your friends,
family and teachers to
visit Taiwan for a vacation.
Although our passion is as hot
as the recent weather in
Taipei, we feel that there are
still many rooms that need to
be improved.
Your constructive criticisms
and suggestions will be very
important to us in order to
improve similar activities in
the future.
If you feel that you really appreciate
our efforts, please feel free to write
and tell our President Ma and the
pertinent government departments
for them to know how hard we worked
for the success of this event.
Because as you could observe, our
government officials did not accept
our insistent invitation for their active
participation in any part of TAIMC.
In order that TAIMC would run
smoothly, there were many volunteers
who gave their time in the staging of
TAIMC, They worked very hard to
provide us with excellent
accommodation, food, transportation
and sightseeing. Without their support
including those who are behind the
scenes, TIMC will not be a very
successful event.
A thousand words is not
enough to express my heartfelt
thanks to all of them! May I
take this opportunity to invite
all volunteers and committee
members to come up on stage
to show our sincere gratitude
to them. Let us give them
around of applause!
Next year, IMC will be held in Bulgaria.
This is the first time that this contest
will be held in Europe. This will be
another milestone in the glorious
history of this mathematics
competition.
Tomorrow, we will part ways with
fond memories that we have
shared together here in Taipei!
Maybe I will not have a chance
to meet you personally before
you leave, so let me take this
opportunity to say “good bye” to
all of you!