A Sudoku competition will be conducted at the Elementary Department of the Silliman University School of Basic Education next month to look for the best participant who will represent Dumaguete City at the 7th Philippine Sudoku Super Challenge, a press release from the school said.

Open to the public, the competition has “Sudoku whiz kid” for elementary students, “Sudoku wizard” for high school students and “Sudoku grandmaster” for college students and professionals.

Interested players should submit cutouts of at least 20 original Sudoku puzzles published in The Philippine Star before December 1, the date of the competition, the press release said.

Entries will be received by mathematics instructor Rosanne Salve of the SBE, who said the growing interest in Sudoku is largely attributed to how the game develops logical reasoning within its players.

Sudoku is a Japanese number puzzle played on a 9x9 playing board, where the same numbers should not appear twice in a row, column or the 3x3 sub-regions of the board, the press release added.

Meanwhile, SU College of Arts and Sciences dean, Dr. Margaret Helen Udarbe-Alvarez, was elected president of the Asian Christian Faculty Fellowship-Philippines during its 6th Biennial Conference held recently in the school.

ACFF-Philippines, organized in 2003, is a member of the ACFF Federation that has chapter organizations in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

Also elected were Elena Catalo of the University of Asia, vice president; Rose Merlyn Jubilo of Union Christian College, secretary; Allen del Carmen, University of St. La Salle, treasurer; Gloria Resurreccion of UCC, auditor; Juliana Moonette Manrique of St. Scholastica’s College, PRO; and Noemi Sayson of the Philippine Christian University, an d Earl Jude Paul Cleope and Myles Nicholas Bejar from Silliman as Board members.

This year’s conference, on the theme “Educators’ Response Towards Care of Mother Earth”, was keynoted by Dr. Betty Cernol-McCann, VP for Programs of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, and participated in by some 50 faculty from member-schools in the Philippines, the press release said.

Paper presenters were Hilconida Calumpong, director of the Silliman Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences; Santiago Utzurrum, director of Silliman Off-Campus Development Projects; Ridling Margaret Waller, president of Women’s Christian College in Janai, India; and Angelina Gutierrez of the St. Scholastica’s College, Manila. Participants also heard the narratives of student and faculty survivors and rescuers during the recent calamities in the province, and visited the rehabilitated areas in Valencia, Negros Oriental, the press release added.*

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