1 February, 2014
Individual Results
Written Exam
1st place — David Stoner. David is a junior at South Aiken High School. He won a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $8,000 per year, a $400 cash prize, and a plaque.
2nd place — Richard Chen. Richard is a junior at Spring Valley High School. He won a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $4,000 per year, $200 cash prize, and a plaque.
3rd place — Kevin Zhao. Kevin is a junior at Spring Valley High School.
3rd place — Ziming Wang. Ziming is a senior at Porter-Gaud High School.
Both 3rd place students received a four year USC scholarship in the amount of $2,000 per year, a $100 cash prize, and a plaque.
NOTE: Two third place awards were issued as a result of a clerical error.
4th place — Gregory Rassolov. Gregory, a senior at Spring valley High School, won a $50 cash prize.
5th place — Jiayang Zhao. Jiayang, a senior at Christ Church Episcopal School, won a $50 cash prize.
6th place — Esme Bajo. Esme is a junior at A. C. Flora High School. She won a $50 cash prize.
Each of the Top 16 scorers on our written exam, listed below, received a medal. 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
| Place |
Student |
Score |
Grade |
School |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
David Stoner |
150 |
11 |
S. Aiken HS |
|
2 |
Richard Chen |
140 |
11 |
Spring Valley |
|
3 |
Kevin Zhao |
137 |
11 |
Spring Valley |
|
3 |
Ziming Wang |
135 |
12 |
Porter-Gaud |
|
4 |
Gregory Rassolov |
133 |
12 |
Spring Valley |
|
5 |
Jiayang Zhao |
127 |
12 |
Christ Church Episcopal |
|
6 |
Esme Bajo |
117 |
11 |
A.C. Flora |
|
7 |
Annie Hu |
113 |
12 |
Lexington HS |
|
8 |
Jenning Chen |
113 |
9 |
Spring Valley HS |
|
9 |
Albert Wang |
111 |
10 |
Dutch Fork HS |
|
10 |
Edwin Rachwal |
110 |
12 |
Dutch Fork HS |
|
11 |
Yi Yao Jin |
110 |
11 |
Bishop England HS |
|
12 |
Robert Melville |
109 |
11 |
Daniel HS |
|
13 |
Lina Tian |
108 |
11 |
Southside Christian |
|
14 |
Amil Merchant |
108 |
11 |
Southside HS |
|
15 |
Ruo Zhang |
106 |
12 |
Christ Church Episcopal |
|
16 |
Michael Ott |
103 |
10 |
Christ Church Episcopal |
Tournament
The top 16 scorers on the written exam participated in the Mathematics Tournament. The winner was Gregory Rassolov, a senior at Spring Valley High School. The runner-up was Richard Chen, a junior at Spring valley High School. Both received plaques. Congratulations!
Round 0 (aka Play-In)
Michael Ott vs. Kevin Zhao
Round 1 (aka Sweet 16, or Octa Finals)
Amil Merchant vs. Gregory Rassolov
Esme Bajo vs. Kevin Zhao
Ruo Zhang vs. David Stoner
Annie Hu vs. Albert Wang
Ziming Wang vs. Kevin Zhao
Edwin Rachwal vs. Jiayang Zhao
Jenning Chen vs. Yi Yao Jin
Lina Tian vs. Richard Chen
Round 2 (aka Elite 8, or Quarter Finals)
Gregory Rassolov vs. Esme Bajo
David Stoner vs. Annie Hu
Kevin Zhao vs. Edwin Rachwal
Yi Yao Jin vs. Richard Chen
Round 3 (aka Final Four, or Semi Finals)
Gregory Rassolov vs. Annie Hu
Kevin Zhao vs. Richard Chen
Round 4 (aka Finals)
Gregory Rassolov vs. Richard Chen
Champion
Gregory Rassolov
Team Results
| Place |
High School |
Teacher |
Students |
|---|---|---|---|
|
First |
Spring Valley High School |
Matthew Owens & Denise Stiffler |
Gregory Rasolov, Richard Chen, Jenning Chen, Jeddiah Gist, Guillermo Pineda, Mohammad Arammash, Albert Huang, Surabhi Poola, Vinita Cheeparupalli, Arif Siddiqi, Anrith Deecorda, Jayanth Vemula |
|
Second |
Lexington High School |
Trudy Scurry & Sarah Johnson |
Annie Hu, Kevin Zhao, Ronald Herrygers, Dhruw Maisurin, Andy Hu |
|
Third |
Dutch Fork High School |
Erin Rivers |
Edwin Rachwal, Nathan Pavlovsky, Freya Bennett, Max Land, Eric Chen, Albert Wang, Aaron Vincent, Audrey Wang, Nina Daneshvar |
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.
|
Place |
High School |
Teacher |
Students |
|---|---|---|---|
|
First |
Porter-Gaud High School |
Jessica Schenkel & Tina Fox |
Ziming Wang, Katherine Fair, Tyler Billings |
|
Second |
Christ Church Episcopal |
Charles McGee & Chris Fortis |
Jiayang Zhao, Ruo Zhang, Michael Ott, Chengming Zhang, Steven Zhou |
|
Third |
Hammond School |
Marcus Neal |
Hollin He, Carol Yu, Millie Chen, Chelsea Chen, Elaine Lin, Sherry Shu, David Liu, Edison Zhu, Mark Cai, Ariel Fang, Sarah Ye, Mark Liu |