On June 2nd 2006, two teams from North Carolina traveled to Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania to compete in the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) Meet. One hundred three teams from across the United States, Canada, Taiwan and the Philippines were in attendance. For a complete list of all the teams, results, contest questions and solutions, visit the ARML website.

As usual, North Carolina sent two teams. One team competed in the A Division, along with the stronger teams, while the other team, which consisted primarily of underclass students, competed in Division B.  The A-Team had the highest scores on three of the four rounds of the meet and placed first in Division A (out of 34 teams) while the B-Team finished 19th (out of 79 teams) in Division B. The 2005 team placed 7th last year. The previous high finish by any NC team was 4th place back in 1987 and 1995.

Most of the members of the A Team were students who had placed in the top twenty at the State Math Contest. The B Team members were all underclassmen and were selected for their outstanding performance on a variety of test - the State Math Contest, the America Mathematics Contests, or the American Invitational Mathematics Examination.  The B-Team is our training ground for future A-Team members. 

The coaches for this year's contest were Archie Benton of North Buncombe High School, Ken Thwing of Freedom High, Kathy Hill and Deanna Lancaster of Athens Drive, and David Mermin of Duke University.  A large part of the success of the teams this year were two excellent practice sessions organized by the coaches and held at the NC School of Science & Mathematics.  John Noland of Enloe High also helped with the practice sessions but was unable to accompany the teams to Penn State.

The NC Teams are supported by the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics with generous support also given by Duke Energy.

The Members of the Victorious "A" Team
 

Name	School
John Berman	J. T. Hoggard
Vivek Bhattacharya	Enloe
Yakov Berchenko-Kogan	Broughton
Noah Blach	East Chapel Hill
Drew Boyuka	Charlotte Home Educators
Chelsey Cooley	NCSSM
Jeremy Hahn	East Chapel Hill
Mikail Lavrov	Enloe
Joe Lozier	NCSSM
Arnav Tripathy	East Chapel Hill
Daniel Vitek	Enloe
Bangchen Wang	AC Reynolds
Ray Wang	JH Rose
Amy Wen	NCSSM
Sunny Xi	J. T. Hoggard

The Members of the "B" Team
 

Name	School
Hyunji Bae	East Chapel Hill
Lizi Chen	Enloe
Yutong Chen	Myers Park
Wes Crouse	Enka
Yevgeniy Grechka	NCSSM
Megan Heysham	NCSSM
Damien Jiang	North Raleigh Christian Academy
Steven Ji	NCSSM
Kyle Johnson	AC Reynolds
Nitin Krishnan	Enloe
Kevin Lang	Myers Park
Joseph Schmitt	Enloe
Jonathan Solow	Chapel Hill High
Sudha Meghan	East Chapel Hill
Bryce Taylor	Hanes Middle School

Pictures from the 2006 ARML Trip

So the bus was a little late	Not your average 8 second pit stop
Penn State Breakfast	Yumm!!!
The victorious A Team You gotta love that pink	The "not-so-slack-either" B Team
The A Team readies for victory	The B Team out of uniform
Our team was hungry for victory.	Bryce, this is not a video camera.
Yutong and friends	A well-deserve nap
6:00 AM the following day	Chelsey and her pillow
Yasha!!!	Coach Mermin

If you would like to represent North Carolina at the 2007 ARML Meet, be sure you attend a Region Math Contest, qualify for the State Math Contest, and take the AMC and AIME math tests.  The 2007 ARML Meet will be held at Penn State in early June.