2005 NC State High School Mathematics

Contest April 28, 2005

NC School of Science & Mathematics

Durham, NC

The State Math Contest is sponsored by the NC Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Participants

• Participants must be in the top 7% at one of the qualifying sites across NC.

• 123 students qualified in 2005

• There were 55 seniors, 46 juniors, 17 sophomores, 4 freshmen and 1 eight-grader.

• There were 99 males and 24 females.

Participants mingle while waiting for the contest to begin

2005 Participants

• Students came from 46 different high schools, including 4 home school groups.

• For seventy students this was there first State Math Contest.

• One student had been to the State Contest five times prior to this one.

The contest is held at the NC School of Science & Math in late April.

Test Details

• The test consists of two parts:– Multiple Choice: 20 questions, 4 points if

correct, 1 if left blank, 0 if incorrect.– Integer Answer: 15 questions, 5 points if

correct, 0 if incorrect or blank.

• 90 minute time limit.

• Any SAT-approved calculators is allowed.

Student deep in though!

Got Pencils?

After the Test

• After the test students are treated to pizza for lunch.

• After lunch students are placed in teams with students from other schools for the Sprints.

• Five problems are done in relay fashion.

• Cash prizes are given to the top 3 teams.

The Sprint Begins!

Every student gets a State Math Contest T-Shirt (notice all the yellow?)

Team 19 works hard on a Sprint problem.

Sprint judges record answers and elapsed time.

Top Ten Students on the Written Exam

1. Jeremy Diepenbrock Enloe High 2. Arnav Tripaty East Chapel Hill3. Derrick Sund Home Schooled4. Yakov Berchenko-Kogan Broughton5. John Pardon Durham Academy6. Jeremy Hahn East Chapel Hill7. Noah Blach East Chapel Hill8. Gregory Filpus East Chapel Hill9. Amy Wen NCSSM/Early College

Guilford9. Jim Ouyang East Chapel Hill10. Paul Huang NCSSM/Durham School Arts

Second Ten Students

Drew Boyuka Charlotte Home SchoolJohn Berman Wilmington Academy ArtsSunny Xi J. T. HoggardYajing Gao NCSSM / East Chapel

HillKyle Johnson AC ReynoldsJanette Wat East Chapel HillDaniel Genkins Charlotte LatinRobert Gage Freedom HighVivek Bhattacharya Enloe

Top Twenty Students

Scholarships

The following colleges offer scholarships to the top students:

Appalachian State Campbell Univ.Chowan College Davidson CollegeDuke University East CarolinaElon University High Point Univ.Meredith College Methodist CollegeNC State Univ. UNC – Chapel HillUNC- Chapel Hill UNC-PembrokeWestern Carolina

Top Individual Student

2006 Contest

• April 27, 2006 at NCSSM

• Practice, Practice, Practice

• Compete in Regional Competitions

• Place in the top 7%

• See you in April