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Great news! ISA Wuhan G11 Thomas successfully entered the global finals of the Yau Shing-Tung Science Prize (Mathematics) and won the First Prize of the Yau Shing-Tung Science Prize (Mathematics), being the only student from Central China among the 12 students representing the China Region (Mathematics) to enter the global finals.

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The Yau Shing-Tung Secondary School Science Award (hereinafter referred to as the Yau Award) is an award in the category of science innovation for secondary school students initiated by Mr Yau Shing-Tung, a master of mathematics, in 2008, and has been selected as a white list of competitions by the Ministry of Education. The competition aims to promote the development of science in secondary schools, to stimulate and enhance secondary school students' interest in scientific research and their ability to innovate, as well as to identify and nurture promising scientific talents.

After more than 10 years of development, the Yau Prize is known as ‘China's Young Nobel Prize’ for its authority, foresight and high degree of difficulty. Currently, more than 2,000 schools and 12,000 teams have participated in the competition, and more than 850 people from 461 student teams have been awarded. More than half of the winners have been recommended to Tsinghua University, Peking University, Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, Princeton University and other famous universities in China and abroad.

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A total of 2,139 teams applied for this year's Yau Award. After three rounds of judging and the semi-final held at Tsinghua University on 2 November, Thomas won the First Prize in the Mathematics Region (out of a total of 12 nationwide), and was successfully selected to compete in the Grand Finals, being the only student from Hubei amongst all the six disciplines.

Yau Prize is open to secondary school students around the world and covers the six basic disciplines of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computing and Economic and Financial Modelling, and Thomas competed in the Mathematics div. According to his instructor, unlike general subject competitions, the Yau Prize promotes innovative thinking and teamwork, abandoning test papers and standard answers, allowing students to participate in the competition by submitting research reports, with scientists from around the world serving as judges or advisors. Density evolution in stochastic dynamical systems with memory: A universal algorithm’, which is one of the more popular and difficult problems in mathematics.

‘It's great to be shortlisted. The global final will be held on 7 December at Tsinghua University, and it will still be a full English defence, so I will continue to prepare well.’ Thomas shared with us.

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At school, 16-year-old Thomas is often praised by his teachers and classmates as a ‘mathematical genius’. Not only did he win the first prize for his paper in the field of mathematics in the Global Fellows Challenge in his first year of senior high school, but he also excelled in a number of national and international competitions in mathematics and physics. But in Thomas's own eyes, he is a ‘maths genius’. 

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‘I have never thought of myself as someone who is very obsessed with maths, but rather very curious about it, and I was lucky that my parents and schooling did a good job of protecting this curiosity when I was growing up.’ Thomas said. ‘And after coming to ISA Wuhan and joining the school's Centre for Talented Youth, the school gave me full support and freedom to learn at my own pace and in my own way, and at the school, I also made friends with many students with similar academic pursuits as me, who are full of perseverance in their own passionate subjects, which also allowed me to be more bold in challenge maths and challenge myself.’

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ISA Wuhan Centre for Talented Youth adheres to the educational philosophy of ‘respecting individuality, developing potential, and teaching students according to their aptitude’, and develops special cultivation programmes and curricula for a group of students such as Thomas, who have special talents in their own professional fields, so that they can have enough time and space to develop deeply and highly in the fields of their own interest. The school has a strong team of maths, physics, computer science and computer science students.

The school has a team of PhDs in maths, physics, computing, engineering, finance, music and sports who can provide one-to-one guidance to students. In cooperation with universities at home and abroad, the school employs renowned experts and professors as mentors to create an environment and conditions for students to enter university laboratories and research fields in advance, so that AISA students have both enough time and freedom and the leadership of university-level educational resources to Immersion in the development of talent.

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"We believe that every child is unique, and we should not only be able to discover and explore the uniqueness of each child, but also have the ability to develop these children's unique abilities and guide them to use their special talents to promote the progress of society.’ Dr. Juliana Jia, Head of ISA Wuhan School, believes that we should discover, intervene and cultivate innovative talents early, and use systematic cultivation programmes and scientific cultivation mechanisms to develop these children's ‘from talent to ability’ process.

Dr. Jia said "Competition is not the purpose, but to cultivate their ability to learn, think, research and innovate in a fast, deep and high way is fundamental. We need to create the most suitable educational environment for children with unique talents, so that their unique gifts and talents can be best protected, best guided and best developed."