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AMC8 Results, Math Team Announcement, and Upcoming Events!

A big congrats to our top 3 finishers and everyone else who participated in the AMC8!

Also, check out today’s awesome Math Team announcement!

The New England Math League 7th and 8th grade rounds will both take place on Wednesday, March 1st at 10:30am in WB! Every Middle School student is welcome to participate! Just show up! The event is 35 questions. You get 30 minutes and can use a calculator.

The sixth and LAST round of the (High School) New England Math League will take place on THURSDAY, March 23trd in Schoolhouse 25! Anyone at any level of math is welcome to compete! The competition lasts 30 minutes, you may use a calculator, and you must begin before 3:15pm.

AMC 8 Record! AMC 10/12 Results!

On January 24th, 27 Middle School students sat for the AMC 8 math competition, the largest number ever! What a crew! Well done!

Our AMC 10/12 results just came in!

Here are out top 3 finishers in each event:

AMC 10A:
1st (tie): Sophie Chou, Jeffrey Warner, Yihong Zhou

AMC 12A:
1st: Getchell Gibbons
2nd: Francis Cataldo
3rd: Qingyun Pan

AMC 10B:
1st: Jeffrey Warner
2nd: Yihong Zhou
3rd: Dionysus Lively

AMC 12B:
1st: Francis Cataldo
2nd: Shuei Harada
3rd: Jerry Landman

2019 AMC 8 Problems and Answers

A whole cadre of students from the Williston Middle School sat for the super fun AMC 8 math competition back on November 14th!

We should be getting their scores soon, but in the meantime, everyone can check out the 2019 AMC 8 questions and answers!

2018 – 2019 Competition Dates

Here are the preliminary competition dates for 2018-2019!

[Competition, Date, Type, Level, Location]

NEML HS 1 (Oct 15, 2018, Individual, All, On campus)
WPI (Oct 16, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – WPI)
Yale Girls (Nov 3, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Yale)
HMMT November (Nov 10, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Harvard)
AMC 8 (Nov 13, 2018, Individual, MS, On campus)
NEML HS 2 (Nov 14, 2018, Individual, All, On campus)
PUMaC (Nov 17, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Princeton)
NEML HS 3 (Dec 11, 2018, Individual, All, On campus)
NEML HS 4 (Jan 14, 2019, Individual, All, On campus)
NEML HS 5 (Feb 11, 2019, Individual, All, On campus)
AMC 10/12 B (Feb 13, 2019, Individual, HS – All, On campus – Qualifier)
HMMT February (Feb 16, 2019, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – MIT)
NEML: 7th Grade (Feb 19, 2019, Individual, MS, On campus)
NEML: 8th Grade (Feb 19, 2019, Individual, MS, On campus)
AIME I (Mar 13, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus – Qualifier)
NEML HS 6 (Mar 25, 2019, Individual, All, On campus)
AIME II (Mar 21, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus)
NEML: Algebra 1 (Apr 15, 2019, Individual, MS, On campus)
USAMO Day 1 (Apr 17, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus)
USAMO Day 2 (Apr 18, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus)
Yale (April, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Yale)
Exeter Math Club Comp (January, Individual & Team, MS, Travel – Exeter)
Wilbraham and Monson (March, Individual & Team, MS, Travel – WPI)
Deerfield Math Comp (May, Individual & Team, MS, Travel – Deerfield)

AMC8 Results 2017

Results for the AMC8 math competition were released this morning! You can check out the competition problems (along with solutions) our 32 middle school participants worked on right here.

Here are our winners!

1st Place = Sofia Michalski
2nd Place = Mason Mish
3rd Place (Tie) = Adam Shatz, Louisa Coughlin, Michael Toth

A big congratulations to these Williston all stars!

The math team has been busy!

There have been lots of math team events over the last several weeks!

As well as one coming up! The next round of the New England Math League (NEML) will take place on Thursday, 12/14 from 2:35 to 3:45 in Schoolhouse 25. The competition lasts 30 minutes, calculators are allowed, and everyone must begin by 3:15pm. Anyone at any level of math is encouraged to participate! (The highest level content on this competition is Algebra 2.)

After the first two round of the NEML, we are in 30th place out of 125 teams! Here are our current top scorers:

First Name

Last Name

Score

Steven

Wang

12

Ethan

Huang

8

Panut (T)

Sawatyanon

7

Jack

Long

6

Jun Hong

Park

6

Toyo

Sato

6

On Tuesday, 11/14, 30 middle school students sat for the AMC8 math competition! We’ll get our results in about a month!

On Saturday, 11/11, the team finished 64th out of 110 — our best ever! — at the ultra-competitive Harvard-MIT Math Tournament!

On Tuesday, 10/17, the team finished 7th out of 90 in our first time attending the WPI math competition!

Go Wildcats!

AMC 8 Results (16-17)

AMC-lgoLast November, 23 Williston Middle Schoolers sat for the AMC 8 math competition.  The results are in!

Ilana Rapaport and Ruby McElhone Yates both earned gold medals with their high score of 14!

Isi Donnelly and Liam Coughlin both earned silver medals with their score of 13!

Andrew Cao earned a bronze medal with his score of 12!

Congratulations!

Want to give the competition questions a try yourself? Here they are!

Complete scores can be found on the results page. (Ask Mr. Seamon for the password.)

3 competitions in one week!

It’s a busy time of year for the Williston Math Team!

The next round of the New England Math League (#3) will take place on Tuesday, December 13th from 2:35 to 3:35pm in Schoolhouse 25. Anyone at any level of math is encouraged to participate! No signup is required. Just show up any time before 3:05 with a pencil and a calculator. The competition takes 30 minutes.

Here’s what we’ve been up to:

HMMTOn Saturday, 11/12, eleven members of the Williston Math Team traveled to Harvard to compete in the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament!

Williston @ HMMT!
Williston @ HMMT!

Steven Wang
Steven Wang

There were over 800 competitors in attendance on 147 teams from around the world! We competed as two teams (Williston X and Y) and scored quite well! Williston X finished in 68th place and Williston Y finished 121st!

Complete results can be found here: Williston Results, Complete Event Results

Steven Wang earned particular recognition by finishing 119th out of 813 competitors! Congratulations Steven!

All of the problems (and solutions) from the competition are available online right here. Give them a try!

NEML-logoOn Tuesday, 11/15, twelve students sat for the second round of the New England Math League, earning an excellent team score of 24!

Here are the top scorers:

First Name

Last Name

Grade

NEML Total

NEML 2 Score

Steven

Wang

9th

11

6

Ethan

Huang

9th

9

5

Simon

Kim

10th

5

5

Josh

Calianos

11th

8

4

Chloe

Lee

12th

4

4

Nancy

Kang

12th

8

3

Hanzhang (Derrick)

Zhao

12th

7

3

Complete NEML results can be found on the results page. (Ask Mr. Seamon for the password.)

AMC-lgoAlso on Tuesday, 11/15, twenty three Middle School students sat for the AMC8 math competition!

AMC8 @ Willistion
AMC8 @ Willistion

Everyone had a wonderful time and we look forward to receiving the competition results in a couple weeks!