USC High School Math Contest - 2000 Results


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Individual Results: [table of contents]

Written Exam

For receiving the highest score on the written exam, Adam Weaver has been awarded a four-year full tuition scholarship to attend USC.

For receiving the second highest score on the written exam, Gene Shuman has been awarded a four-year half-tuition scholarship to attend USC.

For receiving the third highest score on the written exam, Xia Liu has been awarded a four-year quarter-tuition scholarship to attend USC.

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 (Official Participants)
Student Score (out of 150) Grade Level High School Teacher
Adam Weaver 100 senior Governor's School for Science and Math Janet Rutherford
Gene Shuman 95 senior James F. Byrnes High School Katie Johnson
Xia Liu 91 sophomore Spring Valley High School Barbara Ann Gedmintas
Josh Patterson 81 freshman Hammond School Bill Austin
Allen Porter 81 junior Hammond School Bill Austin
Kana Takematsu 79 senior D. W. Daniel High School Marion Greene, Pat Welsh
Cassel Sloan 79 junior Aiken High School Ellen Grooms
Michael Mueller 77 senior Summerville High School Ines Allers
Molly Peeples 77 junior Spring Valley High School Barbara Ann Gedmintas
Kathy Mancuso 77 senior A. C. Flora High School Joyce Hughston, Lee Blankenship-Brown
Anand Bhat 76 senior Academic Magnet High School Sully Johnston
Kitty Roberts 75 senior Hammond School Bill Austin
Tim Lee 75 senior Spring Valley High School Barbara Ann Gedmintas
Ryan Field 71 freshman Lexington High School Bettie Amick
Peter Zhang 71 senior Governor's School for Science and Math Janet Rutherford
Tom Klein 68 senior Lexington High School Bettie Amick

Top 3 Scores Written Exam (Practice-Only Students)
Student Score (out of 150) Grade Level High School Teacher
Matt Elder 75 ? Lexington High School Bettie Amick
Ted Dickel 75 freshman D. W. Daniel High School Marion Greene, Pat Welsh
Sarah Vanzant 70 junior Hammond School Bill Austin


Tournament

The top 16 scorers on our written exam participated in our Mathematics Tournament. Tom Klein was the winner and Cassel Sloan was the runner-up. Congratulations to both of them!

Round 1

Anand Bhat vs. Xia Liu
Cassel Sloan vs. Peter Zhang
Molly Peeples vs. Adam Weaver
Allen Porter vs. Tim Lee
Josh Patterson vs. Kitty Roberts
Tom Klein vs. Michael Mueller
Kana Takematsu vs. Ryan Field
Kathy Mancuso vs. Gene Shuman

Round 2

Anand Bhat vs. Cassel Sloan
Adam Weaver vs. Allen Porter
Josh Patterson vs. Tom Klein
Kana Takematsu vs. Gene Shuman

Round 3

Cassel Sloan vs. Adam Weaver
Tom Klein vs. Gene Shuman

Round 4

Cassel Sloan vs. Tom Klein

Winner

Tom Klein


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 contest to give us the team score. Trophies are awarded to the schools with the top three team scores from each division. Congratulations to the following schools.

Division 1
  High School Teacher Students Top 3 Average Ciphering TEAM SCORE
First Place Spring Valley High School Barbara Ann Gedmintas Lauren McNair, Molly Peeples, Lu Qin, Peter Oh, Tim Lee, Xia Liu 81.0 32 113.0
Second Place Governor's School for Science and Math Janet Rutherford Adam Weaver, Bryce Howard, Peter Zhang, Sarah Funderburk, David Padgett, Eric Tonkyn 77.0 33 110.0
Third Place D. W. Daniel High School Marion Greene, Pat Welsh Kana Takematsu, Amanda Johnson, Matthew Hedden, Charis Chapman, Jacob Miller, Ben Johnson 69.3 29 98.3

Division 2
  High School Teacher Students Top 3 Average Ciphering TEAM SCORE
First Place Hammond School Bill Austin Suzanne Hancock, Catherine Mack, James Mack, Allen Porter, Kitty Roberts, Josh Patterson 79.0 24 103.0
Second Place (tie) Academic Magnet High School Sully Johnston Philip Kurian, Anand Bhat, Robert Muhlhausen, David Lord, Karen Shakespear, Akarsh Belagodu 63.0 15 78.0
Second Place (tie) Ben Lippen School Robert Hess Cindy An, David Nickerson, Michael Spence, Jin-suk Park, Hye-young Ahn, Justin Marsh 65.0 13 78.0
Third Place Liberty High School Brenda Ellenburg, Suzy Rogers Bethany Loftis, Katie Rowland, Aaron Brown, Crystal Hagood, Kayla Reeves, Justin Hamlin 46.7 12 58.7


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