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The Statistical Service, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth, the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Statistical Society announce the completion of the National Phase of the European Statistical Competition 2021-22.

Participation in the national phase of the competition was open to all secondary-age students who were studying at any officially recognized educational institution of Cyprus. Students participated in teams of 2 to 3 pupils and each team had a teacher from their institution acting as the tutor, who was supervising, coordinating and tutoring the team.

The teams participated in one of two categories as follows:

Category A: Upper Secondary [up to 18 years on 31/12/2021]

Category B: Lower Secondary [up to 16 years on 31/12/2021]

The competition included two eliminatory assignments. The first assignment had three parts: (a) Basic knowledge test, (b) Use of official statistical data sources test and (c) Interpretation of statistical reports test. The top ten teams in each category, with the highest scores in the first assignment, qualified for the second assignment. In the second assignment the teams had to prepare an output from the statistical analysis of a dataset in Excel which was facilitated by the organizers.

The winners of the national phase, one for Category A and one for Category B, as well as the teams with the second highest overall score, are awarded. The winning teams receive the following awards: for the tutor of the winning team a tablet and for each student of the winning team the amount of 200 (two hundred) euro. The teams in second place receive the following awards: for the tutor of the team an external disc and for each student of the team the amount of 50 (fifty) euro. The first two teams with the highest scores of each category, are eligible to participate in the European phase of the competition.

The arrangements for the award of the prizes will be announced in due time.

The results of the National Phase of the European Statistics Competition 2021-22 are as follows:

Category A: Upper Secondary [up to 18 years on 31/12/2021]

1st Award and the right to participate in the European phase of the competition:

Team: STATGENIUS

Students: Stavriana Irakleous, Konstantinos Mosfilis, Nefeli Lambrou

Tutor: Elena Hadjigeorgiou

2nd Award and the right to participate in the European phase of the competition:

Team: ODDBEATERS

Students: Panagiotis Chatzikostas, Natalia Kyriakou, Irineos Ioannou

Tutor: Georgia Papageorgiou

Mention is granted to the teams:

Team: TEAMPRIME

Students: Semeli Ergatoudi, Fotis Motitis, Leonidas Loizidis

Tutor: Nearchos Lambrinos

Team: BINOMIAL

Students: Loukas Iakovou, Nikolas Spyrou

Tutor: Nasia Georgiou

Team: TWINSLPL2

Students: Efstathios Antoniou, Antonios Antoniou

Tutor: Eleni Papakonstantinou

Category B: Lower Secondary [up to 16 years on 31/12/2021]

1st Award and the right to participate in the European phase of the competition:

Team: GKA-3

Students: Angelos Alampritis, Konstantina Andreou, George Charalambous

Tutor: Andri Koulermou Konstantinou

2nd Award and the right to participate in the European phase of the competition:

Team: KOKK_STAT

Students: Sotiria Paraskeva, Maria Stylianou, Eleni Christofi

Tutor: Chrystalla Pasiali

Mention is granted to the teams:

Team: ΤΡΙΏΝΥΜΕΣ

Students: Eliana Christodoulou, Chrysa Charalambous, Angeliki Giorgalla

Tutor: Georgia Stefanou

Team: ANGEL3

Students: Alexis Ellinas, Loukas Andreou, Angelos Agathangelou

Tutor: Erato Zymboulaki

Team: WINNERS

Students: Ariadne Oikonomou, Konstantinos Kyprianou, Alpina Ηatzisammouti

Tutor: Maria Karagiorgi

(EK/SCH)