A KCSE candidate at Kapsabet Boys High School in Nandi on Saturday emerged top in a mathematics contest.
Johnson Musungu, 18, was declared the overall winner of the secondary schools mathematics competition in which 172 high schools participated. The contest attracted 3,000 competitors.
The event was held at Kapsabet Boys High School.
Musungu won an academic scholarship to study in Australia at a university of his choice in the 2023 academic year courtesy of Grace International Educational and Counselling Group.
Strathmore University also awarded Musungu a four-year academic scholarship to study at the university.
Grace International and Strathmore University were the main sponsors of the competition.
The top mathematician will have to choose to either to go to Australia to study information technology specialising in cybersecurity or go to Strathmore to study financial engineering or actuarial science.
Grace International Group regional director Abednego Paul said the Australian academic scholarship is worth Sh3 million.
The organisation helps link students to institutions of higher learning in the UK, the US, Australia, India and China.
Musungu completed primary education at Eldoret Little Lambs Primary in 2018. He scored 419 marks in the KCPE exam.
“Maths is my best subject and I like it. I do a lot of assignments and practice on the subject and didn’t have difficulties in the competition,” Musungu said.
Musungu attributed his success to his grandparents, saying they have been his source of inspiration to him.
He is also grateful for the opportunity to study in Kapsabet, which put him in the national limelight.
“I’m happy for the two scholarships as I will have an opportunity to make a choice,” Musungu said.
Musungu scored 16 out of the possible 20 marks. Innocent Omurwa, also a candidate from Kapsabet Boys, scored 15 marks.
Eldredge Omondi from Nairobi School was third with 14 marks.
