Mathematical Olympiads: Email of 2022-02-06 (new students)

SUBJECT: [TT] Regular Training Sessions Wed 5-7pm BLT, UWA (preferred) OR Mon 3:45-6pm AU19, Perth Mod

Some new students did come last Wednesday at UWA, and they were welcome to do so, since many of the regulars were involved with the AMO that day (for 4 hours). Directions and timings and other details are at the Olympiad site: https://staffhome.ecm.uwa.edu.au/~00021149/Olympiad/
and, as will always be the case, this email is blogged there by date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Some of you will have discovered that Olympiad Training sessions aren't for you. If that's you, please let me know ... and I'll take you off my email list before I merge it with the regular students.

Firstly, Wednesdays at UWA or Mondays at Perth Modern School is a choice. They are intended to be parallel sessions, i.e. their content is roughly the same ... so you only need to come to one each week.

Secondly, since it's always awkward trying to negotiate around holidays, I just don't recognise them. The sessions are on, every week, regardless of holidays, unless I send an email to say otherwise. At UWA, I have bookings all the way up to the Wednesday before Christmas.

Of course, your family may have holidays. That's ok. No problem. The idea of having sessions each week, is that missing one every now and then shouldn't make too much difference.

At UWA, there is a slight hiccup: if you are over 16, you are required to be double-vaccinated, and you should have proof, in case you are challenged. A COVID certificate is relatively easily obtained. Your parents have probably organised this for you, already, by first going to https://my.gov.au/, creating an account by providing an email address and mobile phone no., installing a few identifying answers to challenge questions, and then uploading Medicare card details (takes about 20 minutes).

So now here are details of the sessions:

UWA: Wednesdays 5-7pm in Blakers Lecture Theatre: These are in the same place the intro. sessions were, except that occasionally, a student orientation or an exam period blocks off Blakers LT and then we are in Robert Street Lecture Theatre. I will always put a notice on the door:
AMO/TT sessions in Rob St LT, this week
when this occurs. So all you need to know is how to find directions which on the Olympiad site as are the dates on which this occurs:
Blakers LT directions
Robert Street LT directions
UWA bookings with dates
It's advisable to come to Blakers LT anyway, since, if it happens that the venue is avaialble anyway, we will use that instead. Blakers LT is preferred over Perth Modern since there is more space, and it's better acoustically.
Now, I've actually booked until 8pm in Blakers LT, and generally I will keep going until 7:30pm. So, if you wish, you can stay a little longer.
Perth Modern School: Mondays 3:45-6pm in AU 19, or AU 20: For directions see: AU 20
We may end up using both rooms listed, with Nate Hoang taking the regular students, if there are too many for AU 19. The directions are for AU 20, but AU 19 is just next door.