Jonathan Christian Nitisastro, 11, class student 6 Aletheia Tile Elementary School, won the National Science Olympiad silver medal (OSN) Mathematics at Brawijaya University Malang a few days ago. Now he is ready to compete in the international math Olympiad.
The cheerful atmosphere was felt when we entered the Aletheia Elementary School complex on Jalan Raya KH. Wahid Hasyim |, Kulon Tile Village, Tile District, Banyuwangi. Not only students, The school teachers also looked happy yesterday morning. They seem to have just received a proud gift. End of last month (30/9) one of the school's students, namely Jonathan Christian Nitisastro, won the second place in OSN in mathematics at Brawijaya University Malang.
Different from school children in general, for Jonathan, math is an interesting subject. The first child of two brothers, the Sianggoro and Yenny Kristanto, admitted that he really liked the arithmetic lesson. Even, since fifth grade, he is very fond of math lessons. So, when you go to sixth grade, The student, who was known by his friends as a cheerful child and liked to draw, was immediately admitted to the Olympic special superior class.
When it comes to the Olympic special seed class, Jonathan’s talent for the subject of mathematics became increasingly apparent. The value can be said to always be above average. Because often get good grades, the school often gives confidence to students who have a hobby of playing lego with the design of the plane as envoys at the Mathematics Olympiad event. "He often becomes the school's ambassador at math events,"said the supervising teacher Jonathan, Jacky A. P. Pontoh.
So, when some time ago there was a Mathematics Olympiad on the Banyuwangi University Campus, the school immediately sent him as a representative of Aletheia Elementary School. Result, Jonathan was able to beat the participants from elementary schools throughout Banyuwangi. He won first place, so that they are entitled to represent Banyuwangi Regency in the Mathematics OSN at the East Java provincial level. In the OSN event at the provincial level at Universitas Brawijaya Malang, he managed to get second place and got a silver medal.
“In the next event, yaitu Gold Award Singapore and Asian School Math Olympiad, he passed to the big eight,"said Jacky. Success in the top eight, then Jonathan followed the second stage, yaitu Asian Science and Mathematics Olympiad For Primary Schools, and passed. "Now Jonathan is preparing for a further selection to win a place as Indonesia's representative on the world stage, which is held by the Surya Institute in Tangerang.," he said. (radar)
