USC High School Math Contest
Results, December 8, 2007

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Individual Results: [table of contents]

Written Exam

1st place — Harry Richman. Harry is a junior at Spring Valley High School. He won a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $8000 per year, a $400 day prize, a plaque and a medal.

2nd place — Artem Aleshin. Artem is a junior at Dreher High School. He won a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $4000 per year, a $200 day prize, a plaque and a medal.

3rd place — Juna Chen. Juna is a senior at The Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. He won a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $2000 per year, a $100 day prize, a plaque and a medal.

4th place — Sean Soni. Sean is a sophomore at A. C. Flora High School. He won a $50 day prize and a medal.

5th place — Peter Rassolov. Peter is a sophomore at Spring Valley High School. He won a $50 day prize and a medal.

6th place — Philip Cross. Philip is a junior at Dreher High School. He won a $50 day prize and a medal.

 

The table below lists the top 16 scorers on our written exam. We would like to congratulate these students as well as all of the students who have worked so hard and performed so well on our written exam.

Top 16 Scores on Written Exam
Student Score (out of 150) Grade Level High School Teacher
Harry Richman 134 junior Spring Valley High School Jean Masdonati, Matthew Owens
Artem Aleshin 132 junior Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Juna Chen 125 senior The Governor's School for Science and Mathematics Dr. Murray Siegel, Dr. K. Sris
Sean Soni 117 sophomore A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk
Peter Rassolov 116 sophomore Spring Valley High School Jean Masdonati, Matthew Owens
Philip Cross 115 junior Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Brian Bowers 114 senior Summerville High School Ines Allers
Ian Taylor 106 junior A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk
Ming Lin 105 sophomore Southside High School Ken Nolen
Benjamin Cousins 100 senior Irmo High School Lee Blankenship-Brown, Larry Holloman
Qian Li Sun 96 sophomore Wando High School Erin Crosswell, Larry Crosswell
Yuchen Su 95 senior Ben Lippen School Daniel Hylton
Heather Sprague 93 junior James F. Byrnes High School Mark Bigby, Amber Hedgepeth, Katie Ordoyne
Noah Fram 90 junior Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Christopher King 86 freshman Chesterfield High School Susan M. King
Ankit Grover 86 senior D. W. Daniel High School Charlie Jones, Gloria Wigley

Tournament

The top 16 scorers on the written exam participated in the Mathematics Tournament. The winner was Brian Bowers, a senior at Summerville High School. The runner-up was Philip Cross, a junior at Dreher High School. Both have received a plaque and a set of non-transitive dice. Congratulations!

Round 1

Ming Ling vs. Harry Richman
Peter Rassolov vs. Heather Sprague
Qian Li Sun vs. Juna Chen
Christopher King vs. Brian Bowers
Sean Soni vs. Yuchen Su
Ankit Grover vs. Ian Taylor
Noah Fram vs. Philip Cross
Artem Aleshin vs. Benjamin Cousins

Round 2

Harry Richman vs. Heather Sprague
Juna Chen vs. Brian Bowers
Sean Soni vs. Ankit Grover
Philip Cross vs. Benjamin Cousins

Round 3

Harry Richman vs. Brian Bowers
Ankit Grover vs. Philip Cross

Round 4

Brian Bowers vs. Philip Cross

Winner

Brian Bowers

Team Results: [table of contents]

Schools are divided into two divisions based on the number of students, the number of teachers, the scope of the math program, etc. For each team, we average the top 3 written exam scores. This score is added to the score from the ciphering portion of our contest to give the team score. Trophies are awarded to the schools with the top team scores from each division. Congratulations to the following schools.

Division 1
  High School Teacher Students Top 3 Average Ciphering TEAM SCORE
First Place Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams Nick Adkins, Stan Adkins, Artem Aleshin, Caroline Cross, Philip Cross, Allison Day, Noah Fram, Xiang Guam, Aaron Markham, Stuart Teal, Alex Wilcox, Kaileen Yeh 112.3 28 140.3
Second Place A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk Vicki Buckingham, Katie Clarkson, Andrew Fritze, Kevin Hoffman, Meredith Nix, Sage Price, Ella Soltz, Sean Soni, Walker Stinnette, Mackenzie Sunday, Ian Taylor, Katie Wingard 102.7 31 133.7
Third Place Spring Valley High School Jean Masdonati, Matthew Owens Jake Baker, Jessie Ge, Valentin Lazar, John McElyen, Chris Pasco, Vladimir Plotkin, Peter Rassolov, Harry Richman 111.7 17 128.7

Division 2
  High School Teacher Students Top 3 Average Ciphering TEAM SCORE
First Place Ben Lippen School Daniel Hylton Jonathan Hodges, Seung Goo Kang, Josh Kim, Michelle Nations, Andy Song, Will Stallings, Yuchen Su, Cherry Wu, Jun Jun Zhu 88.3 20 108.3
Second Place Academic Magnet High School Linnea Wildenradt Leigh Allison, John Cassel, Muyi Li, Zhahao Mao, David Zhang ,William Zhang 80.7 11 91.7
Third Place Hammond School Marcus Neal Avery Acuff, Walker Hope, William Mounfield, Marshall Schraibman, Lauren Sribnik 73.0 13 86.0

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Modified on December 12, 2007 by murphy