{"id":56036,"date":"2025-10-22T17:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/apacope-school-wins-top-awards-at-second-african-shenmo-cup-abacus-mental-math\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:31:08","slug":"apacope-school-wins-top-awards-at-second-african-shenmo-cup-abacus-mental-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/apacope-school-wins-top-awards-at-second-african-shenmo-cup-abacus-mental-math\/","title":{"rendered":"APACOPE School wins top awards at Second African Shenmo Cup ABACUS Mental Math Olympiad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The competition was attended by high-ranking officials and dignitaries, including the State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Claudette Irere, and the Director General of the Rwanda Education Board, Dr. Nelson Mbarushimana. <\/p>\n

Representatives from the Rwanda Defence Force, the Rwanda National Police, and delegations from 30 participating countries were also present.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Olympiad gathered nearly 400 students who showcased their remarkable mental arithmetic skills using the ABACUS method, a technique that blends speed, memory, and concentration in an extraordinary display of numerical mastery. <\/p>\n

Among these bright minds, APACOPE stood out impressively, earning the coveted first place overall and securing the highest number of student awards among all participating schools.<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s star performers included Alsene Irakooze, who claimed victory in Level 3 for Watching and Listening, and Eddy Nkuranga, who triumphed in Level 3 Written Exams. <\/p>\n

Gakumba Ishya Gaelle also took top honors in Level 4 Watching and Listening, while Shima Salom Junior and Kirenga Enzo Yanis brought home second-place finishes in the same category and in Level 4 Written Exams respectively.<\/p>\n

This remarkable success builds upon APACOPE\u2019s already stellar reputation. In a previous international competition held in Nigeria, one of its students won a gold medal in the ABACUS Mental Calculation category, an achievement that underscored the school\u2019s long-standing commitment to academic excellence and innovative teaching methods.<\/p>\n

Adding to its remarkable achievements, APACOPE traditional dance troupe entertained the audience with captivating Rwandan cultural performances, making the event even more vibrant and memorable.<\/p>\n

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Groupe Scolaire APACOPE once again proved its excellence by emerging as the top-performing school in the Second African Shenmo Cup ABACUS Mental Math Olympiad, held on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000096535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000096535,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ee.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ee.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ee.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000096535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56036"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56036"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}