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