USC High School Math Contest
Results, December 9, 2006

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Individual Results: [table of contents]

Written Exam

For receiving the highest score on the written exam, Harry Richman has been awarded a $400 day prize and a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $8000 per year.

For receiving the second highest score on the written exam, Jim Manning has been awarded a $200 day prize and a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $4000 per year.

For receiving the third highest score on the written exam, Asif Khan has been awarded a $100 day prize and a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $2000 per year.

The table below lists the top 17 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 17 Scores on Written Exam
Student Score (out of 150) Grade Level High School Teacher
Harry Richman 146 sophomore Spring Valley High School John Swann
Jim Manning 137 senior A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk
Asif Khan 135 senior Spring Valley High School John Swann
Fangda Xu 130 senior James F. Byrnes High School Katie Johnson, Mark Bigby, Amber Gremmer
Ian Taylor 127 sophomore A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk
Sean Soni 126 freshman A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk
Peter Rassolov 125 freshman Spring Valley High School John Swann
Philip Cross 119 sophomore Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Noah Fram 119 sophomore Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Ella Soltz 113 sophomore A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk
Jaydeep Srimani 112 senior D. W. Daniel High School Gloria Wigley, Charles Jones
John Harley 112 senior Aiken High School Ellen Grooms
Mingzhe Lin 110 freshman Southside High School Ken Nolen
Greg Marcil 110 senior Dreher High School School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Mac Felmly 108 * senior Hammond School Marcus Neal
Aaron Markham 108 * sophomore Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Rono Srimani 108 * sophomore D. W. Daniel High School Gloria Wigley, Charles Jones

* A tie-breaking scheme was used to determine that Mac Felmly and Aaron Markham would progress to the 16-person tournament.

Tournament

The top 16 scorers on our written exam participated in our Mathematics Tournament. Jim Manning was the winner and Harry Richman was the runner-up. Congratulations to both of them!

Round 1

Noah Fram vs. Harry Richman
Ian Taylor vs. Mingzhe Lin
Jaydeep Srimani vs. Asif Khan
Peter Rassolov vs. Mac Felmly
Jim Manning vs. Ella Soltz
Sean Soni vs. Greg Marcil
Philip Cross vs. Aaron Markham
Fangda Xu vs. John Harley

Round 2

Harry Richman vs. Mingzhe Lin
Jaydeep Srimani vs. Peter Rassolov
Jim Manning vs. Sean Soni
Philip Cross vs. Fangda Xu

Round 3

Harry Richman vs. Peter Rassolov
Jim Manning vs. Fangda Xu

Round 4

Harry Richman vs. Jim Manning

Winner

Jim Manning

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 Spring Valley High School John Swann Jessie Ge, Asif Khan, Aurel Lazar, Valentin Lazar, Vladimir Plotkin, Peter Rassolov, Harry Richman 135.3 37 172.3
Second Place A. C. Flora High School Patrick Rybarczyk Josie Bailey, Vicki Buckingham, Allyssa Callahan, Jim Manning, Meredith Nix, Ella Soltz, Sean Soni, Katie Steddenbenz, Walker Stinnette, Mackenzie Sunday, Ian Taylor 130.0 42 172.0
Third Place Dreher High School Christina Murphy, Linda Williams Artem Aleshin, Ryan Allred, Philip Cross, Noah Fram, Chris Garrick, Nate Macaruso, Greg Marcil, Aaron Markham, Lu Meng, Luis Suarez, Kaileen Yeh 116.0 37 153.0

Division 2
  High School Teacher Students Top 3 Average Ciphering TEAM SCORE
First Place Hammond School Marcus Neal Atieno Adongo, Mac Felmly, Walker Hope, Alston James, Rhee Lightsey, William Mounfield, Marshall Schraibman, Lauren Sribnick, Shobhit Vishnoi 96.7 24 120.7
Second Place Ben Lippen School Susan Yoder Jonathan Hodges, Jin Hong Kim, Josh Kim, Amy Oh, Will Stallings, Nick Williamson 93.7 24 117.7
Third Place Berea High School Daniel Greene and Amy Ray Brittany Boswell, Jeanette Domingo, Brooke Gentry, Leckie Gunter, Beverly Jackson, Jin Kim, Ben Vaughn 83.0 17 100.0

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