29th Annual USC High School Math Contest
Results
January 31st, 2015
Individual Results
1st place — David Stoner. David is a senior at South Aiken High School. He won a four year USC scholarship
from the College of Engineering and Computing in the amount of $8,000 per year, a $400 cash prize, and a plaque.Written Exam
2nd place — Andy Xu. Andy is an 8th grader representing Southside High School. Andy received a plaque and a$200 cash prize.
3rd place — Richard Chen. Richard is a senior at Spring Valley High School. He won a four year USC scholarship from the College of Engineering and Computing in the amount of $2,000 per year, a$100 cash prize, and a plaque.
4th place — Kevin Zhao. Kevin, a senior at Lexington High School, won a $50 cash prize and a medal.
5th place — Esme Bajo. Esme is a senior at A.C. Flora High School. She also won a $50 cash prize and a medal.
6th place — Jenning Chen. From Spring Valley High SChool, won another $50 cash prize and a medal.
Top 16
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.
| Place |
ID |
% SCORE |
RAW SCORE |
NAME |
GRADE |
SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
10901 |
96.67 |
145 |
David Stoner |
12 |
S. Aiken |
|
2 |
21003 |
96.67 |
145 |
Andy Xu |
8 |
Southside |
|
3 |
11101 |
94 |
141 |
Richard Chen |
12 |
Spring Valley |
|
4 |
10801 |
86.67 |
130 |
Kevin Zhao |
12 |
Lexington |
|
5 |
10105 |
82.67 |
124 |
Esme Bajo |
12 |
A.C. Flora |
|
6 |
11102 |
76.67 |
115 |
Jenning Chen |
10 |
Spring Valley |
|
7 |
20605 |
74 |
111 |
David Liu |
12 |
Hammond |
|
8 |
20305 |
68.67 |
103 |
Jiayi Chen |
12 |
Ben Lippen |
|
9 |
10903 |
66.67 |
100 |
Payton Carter |
11 |
S. Aiken |
|
10 |
20903 |
64 |
96 |
Lina Tian |
12 |
Southside Christian |
|
11 |
10604 |
63.33 |
95 |
Albert Wang |
11 |
Dutch Fork |
|
12 |
10902 |
63.33 |
95 |
Devang Patel |
11 |
S. Aiken |
|
13 |
20302 |
63.33 |
95 |
Minho Seo |
11 |
Ben Lippen |
|
14 |
20606 |
63.33 |
95 |
Steven Zhang |
11 |
Southside Christian |
|
15 |
20604 |
62.67 |
94 |
Elaine Lin |
12 |
Hammond |
|
16 |
10607 |
62 |
93 |
Max Land |
10 |
Dutch Fork |
Tournament
The top 16 scorers on the written exam participated in the Mathematics Tournament. The winner was Andy Xu. The runner-up was Richard Chen. Both received plaques. Congratulations!
Preliminary Round
Esme Bajo d. Devang Patel
David Stoner d. Max Land
Jenning Chen d. Albert Wang
Andy Xu d. Elaine Lin
Lina Tian d. David Liu
Richard Chen d. Steven Zhang
Jiayi Chen d. Payton Carter
Kevin Zhao d. Minho Seo
Quarter-Finals
David Stoner d. Esme Bajo
Andy Xu d. Jenning Chen
Richard Chen d. Lina Tian
Kevin Zhao d. Jiayi Chen
Semi-Finals
Andy Xu d. David Stoner
Richard Chen d. Kevin Zhao
Finals
Andy Xu d. Richard Chen (2-0)
Team Results
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
| Place |
High School |
Teacher |
Students |
|---|---|---|---|
|
First |
Spring Valley High School |
Denise Stiffler, Stepanie Fowler |
Richard Chen, Jenning Chen, Ali El Ali, Arif Siddiqi, Rishishankar Suresh, Jason Erno, Albert Huang, Mohammad Arammash, Jayanth Vemula |
|
Second |
S. Aiken High School |
Jason Rodgers, Jennifer Dusenbury |
David Stoner, Devang Patel, Payton Carter, Anthony Williamson, Steven Sheets, Mary Mell, Ivey Li, Lily Anzuoni, Cullen Hightower |
|
Third |
Dutch Fork High School |
Erin Rivers |
Nathan Pavlosky, Eric Chen, Claire Wang, Albert Wang, Sanatana Reddy, Nina Daneshvar, Max Land, Freya Bennett, Ishrat Singh, Aufrey Wang |
Division 2
|
Place |
High School |
Teacher |
Students |
|---|---|---|---|
|
First |
Hammond School |
Marcus Neal |
Hollin He, Chelsea Chen, Elaine Lin, David Liu, Steven Zhang, Tracy Wang, Victoria Sui, Mark Cai, Aayush Karan, Jacob Burger, Sumant Rao |
|
Second |
Ben Lippen School |
Linda Hodges, Amy DeLine |
Ethan Kwok, Minho Seo, Junlong Ye, Matthew Ma, Jiayi Chen, Andrew Kim, Loc Le, Ben Dang, Jamie Fravel, Alex Huang |
|
Third |
Southside Christian |
Brad Scott |
Esther Li, Vince Li, Lina Tian, Linda Jin, Camille Morris, Matthew Raunikar, Oliver Song, Yi Wang, Steven Zhang, Katie Mruz, Grant Staarmann, Martin Zhang |