| Individual Results: |
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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 18 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 18 Scores on Written Exam (Official Participants) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student | Score (out of 150) | Grade Level | High School | Teacher |
| Saahir Khan | 124 (tie) | junior | Dutch Fork High School | Laura Buddin |
| Ben Johnson | 124 (tie) | junior | D. W. Daniel High School | Marion Greene, Pat Welsh |
| Xia Liu | 122 | junior | Governor's School for Science and Math | Dr. Terry Long |
| Jae Jun Kim | 114 | senior | Spring Valley High School | Susan Mewborn |
| Brian Williams | 110 | junior | Governor's School for Science and Math | Dr. Terry Long |
| Ted Dickel | 106 | sophomore | D. W. Daniel High School | Marion Greene, Pat Welsh |
| David Nickerson | 103 | senior | Ben Lippen School | Robert Hess |
| Ryan Wells | 102 | senior | Spring Valley High School | Susan Mewborn |
| Ryan Field | 102 | sophomore | Lexington High School | Bettie Amick |
| Matt Elder | 98 | junior | Lexington High School | Bettie Amick |
| Thomas Grooms | 98 | senior | Aiken High School | Ellen Grooms |
| Cassel Sloan | 94 | senior | Aiken High School | Ellen Grooms |
| Guy Boudreaux | 93 | sophomore | Dreher High School | Christina Murphy, Linda Williams |
| Christopher Rogers | 92 | senior | Lexington High School | Bettie Amick |
| Richard Goeres | 92 | junior | Dreher High School | Christina Murphy, Linda Williams |
| Allen Porter | 91 (lost tie-breaker) | senior | Hammond School | Bill Austin |
| Molly Peeples | 91 | senior | Spring Valley High School | Susan Mewborn |
| Eric Tonkyn | 91 (lost tie-breaker) | senior | Governor's School for Science and Math | Dr. Terry Long |
| Team Results: |
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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 | Governor's School for Science and Math | Dr. Terry Long | Xia Liu, Brian Williams, Eric Tonkyn, Patrick Bristow, Lu Qin, Jacob Hicks | 107.7 | 37 | 144.7 |
| Second Place | Spring Valley High School | Susan Mewborn | Jae Jun Kim, Ryan Wells, Molly Peeples, Nick Goodman, Ronak Shah, Raj Amarnath | 102.3 | 35 | 137.3 |
| Third Place | D. W. Daniel High School | Marion Greene, Pat Welsh | Ben Johnson, Ted Dickel, Matthew Yancey, Rob Stapleton, Mark Kostreva, Jingyi Zhang | 104.3 | 31 | 135.3 |
| Division 2 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High School | Teacher | Students | Top 3 Average | Ciphering | TEAM SCORE | |
| First Place | Ben Lippen School | Robert Hess | David Nickerson, Peter Hsi, Hye-young Ahn, Justin Marsh, Jin-suk Park, Sun Hee Chung | 92.7 | 30 | 122.7 |
| Second Place | Hammond High School | Bill Austin | Allen Porter, Josh Patterson, Wade Harrison, James Mack, Catherine Mack, Suzanne Hancock | 90.0 | 29 | 119.0 |
| Third Place | Hilton Head Preparatory School | Jan Dowell | Sam Urato, Alex Papson, Gwen McKinley, Stephen Fuller, Hakan Seyalioglu, Michele Stupinsky | 68.3 | 24 | 92.3 |
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