| (an activity of the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics) |  |
(Web Site and State Finals hosted by the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics) |
| (an activity of the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics) | |
(Web Site and State Finals hosted by the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics) |
(6/1/08) NC ARML Team Captures Third Place
A team of fifteen students from around North Carolina placed third in the nation at the Thirty-third Annual American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) Meet on Saturday. Two North Carolina teams participated at the University of Georgia site. This year's contest was held simultaneously at Penn State University, Iowa State University, the University of Las Vegas, and the University of Georgia. Scores from each of the sites were compiled and the A-Team from North Carolina placed first at the Georgia Site and third in the nation. Only the perennially strong teams from New York City and Phillips Exeter Academy scored higher than the North Carolina Team. San Francisco and Southern California rounded out the top five. The North Carolina team, in what the coaches called a "rebuilding" year with an "awfully young" group of students, were somewhat surprised by their outstanding performance. The North Carolina team had won this contest in 2006 and placed fourth in 2007. This outstanding finish made the North Carolina team the only team to have finished in the top five in each of the past three years. One-hundred thirty-five teams from the United States along with a team from Hong Kong and Vietnam competed in this year's contest. For more details and pictures, visit here and the Official ARML Site.
(4/25/08)John Berman wins the State Math Contest Comprehensive Finals and Joseph Keefer earns a full-tuition scholarship to Duke University
John Berman, a junior at J. T. Hoggard High School in Wilmington won the State Mathematics Contest, Comprehensive Division on April 24th, 2008 at the NC School of Science and Mathematics. John placed second in 2007, twelfth in 2006 and thirteenth in 2005. John won a $1000 Award provided to the winner by the EMC Corporation. EMC also provides scholarships to the top ten in the contest for courses offered on the Art of Problem Solving website.
Joe Keefer, of NCSSM and the Highland School of Technology in Gastonia was the highest placing senior who had also applied and been accepted at Duke University. As such, he is eligible for a full-tuition, four-year scholarship to Duke University valued at over $140,000. Should Joe not elect to go to Duke, Daniel Vitek or Ray Wang would become eligible.
(4/2/08)Arnav Tripathy Selected as 2007 Putnam Fellow
Arnav Tripathy, a freshman at Harvard University http://math.harvard.edu/putnam/index.html, formerly from East Chapel Hill High School was in the top six finishers on the 2007 Putnam Exam, given to college and university teams across the US. http://www.maa.org/news/031708putnam.html. Arnav finished in the top five on our State Math Contest five years in a row, winning the contest in 2004 as a freshman in high school. Arnav was also a mainstay on our winning ARML Team in 2006. He also was a member of the 2006 and 2007 USA Olympiad Teams. He is featured in a new MAA documentary, "Hard Problems, The Road To The World's Toughest Math Contest" (http://www.maa.org/news/101807hardproblems.html). (http://www.hardproblemsmovie.com/).
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