It's the last days of the year and the institution has dear guests, one of the children of the great Bootorab family from Urmia has come to Tehran to participate in the Mathematics Olympiad, the Mathematics Olympiad of the University of Waterloo, Canada! His
mother, sister and aunt-in-law have also come with him to encourage him at this important and sensitive stage.
The intelligent
young man of Bootorab is not more than 15 years old. Mehrab, a 9th grade
student from Urmia city in West Azerbaijan, has obtained the 18th rank in the
national academic progress test in the field of mathematics. The test he is
going to participate in is the first stage of this Olympiad, the second stagewill be held in April and the final stage will be held after receiving his
diploma.Challenging
mathematics is the main subject of the mathematics Olympiad exams, which is
mostly related to the field of intelligence and IQ, and it is very different
from the basic mathematics courses that are taught in school. If Mehrab can
score above 110 in the entrance exam, he will be awarded a scholarship to the
University of Waterloo, Canada, and with a score between 90 and 110, he will be
able to study at Sharif and Amirkabir Universities.
At the beginning of
this year, Mehrab participated in the academic progress test with an average of
19 and managed to get the 18th rank in the field of mathematics. A month later,
Mehrab was contacted by the Association of Young Mathematicians and invited to
visit the association to register for the Olympiad exams. For this exam, Mehrab
completed a three-month training course and participated in online classes at
the University of Waterloo, Canada, three days a week. However, these three
months have not passed easily, he has endured a lot of trouble and expenses, in
order to participate in every training session, he had to go to the Internet
cafe and pay 50,000 tomans for each three-hour class.
They are not their
only problems. Life is getting harder and harder. We realized that the ceiling
of their house has deep cracks and it is dripping in cold winter days.
For more than 2 years, Mehrab has been under the
support of Bootorab institution with his sister Ruqiya. The tablet that the
institution gave him for getting the 18th rank is his best memory of the
institution during these two years. Because it has doubled his motivation for
effort. He says that this tablet made it easy for me because I needed it a lot
for some materials and curriculum Father
passed away due to heart disease ten years ago, when Mehrab was 5 years old, he
says that I was small, but I remember all the memories of being with my father,
but the trembling of his lips and tears in his eyes do not allow him to tell us
about them.
Mehrab was silent until the words of the father came, the mother
hid her tears under her chador and Ruqiya lowered her head and her face slowly
got wet. After ten years, what can this sadness express except the memory of a
kind and caring father and his emotional and intimate relationship with family
members?
Mehrab has a message for the children of Bootorab's big family, he wants them
to continue their education no matter what, because knowledge and literacy are
the only weapons, with which they can fight the hardships and problems of life.
He says that I do not want other children to experience the same situation that
I had when my father died, 4 children and a mother who could not go to work and
earn a living because of her lack of education.
We promise to Mehrab that tomorrow morning, at the same time as the exam begins
all the colleagues of the institution will recite Ayah Al-Kursi for his
success. You, the owners of pure hearts, pray for the success of dear Mehrab in
this and other tests of his life...