Senior Ji Soo Hwang was one of the top 5 scoring young women in all of New England on the AMC12B!
By virtue of her top 5 finish, Ji Soo was awarded an Akamai AMC12B certificate “in honor of [her] performance on the AMC 12B exam.”
Ji Soo’s AMC 12B score also propelled her to the USA Math Olympiad!
Congratulations Ji Soo!
By virtue of her 249 index score (AMC12A + 10*AIME score), Ji Soo Hwang ’21 has qualified for the highly selective USA Math Olympiad!
The 2021 USAMO is a two-day event. Each day (April 13th and 14th), Ji Soo will be working on 3 different problems for 4.5 hours.
The top scorers on the USAMO go on to participate in the Math Olympiad Program, a summer program at Carnegie Mellon University. The main purpose of MOP, held since 1974, is to select and train the six members of the U.S. team for the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Good luck Ji Soo!
Our AMC10/12 results are in! Here are our top scorers!
| AMC10A 1st – Yihong Zhou 2nd – Shuei Harada 3rd – Daniel Zhang | AMC12A 1st – Ji Soo Hwang 2nd – Junseok Hwang 3rd – Yaning Shi |
| AMC10B 1st – Junseok Hwang 2nd – Cici Yu 3rd – Yihong Zhou | AMC12B 1st – Ji Soo Hwang 2nd – Yaning Shi 3rd – Qingyun Pan |
A big congratulations to Ji Soo Hwang and Junseok Hwang for scoring high enough to qualify for the prestigious AIME!
After 5 rounds of the New England Math League we are currently in 15th place out of 75 teams! The 6th and last round will begin on March 15th!
Here are our overall top scoring mathletes!
1st – Vishal Ramvelu – 25 points
2nd – Anita Hua – 23 points
3rd – Joe Zhou – 20 points
4th – Anfisa Bogdanenko – 17 points
5th – Jack Berrien – 11 points
Here are our top scorers by grade! (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
2021 – Anfisa Bogdanenko, Nikhil Sierros, Ji Soo Hwang
2022 – Vishal Ramvelu, Anita Hua, Francis Cataldo
2023 – Avi Falk, Olivia Lu, Louisa Coughlin
2024 – Joe Zhou, Crystal Tan, Charlotte Zeng
2025 – Jack Berrien
The AMC10/12 competitions are coming up!
Email Mr. Seamon (jseamon@williston.com) if you’d like to compete!
The AMC 10 and AMC 12 are both 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examinations in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills. The competitions will be given online. You’ll be able to take them from anywhere in the world. Complete info about the events is online here.
Not only are the competitions extremely fun, strong AMC scores can help you stand out during the college application process!
The AMC10A and AMC12A competitions will be given on February 4th.
The AMC10B and AMC12B competitions will be given on February 10th.
The A and B dates are the same difficulty. You can participate in BOTH events, but only at ONE level, either 10 or 12. (The advantage to competing on both dates is that you get two chances to score higher enough to qualify for the next competition, the AIME.)
The AMC 10 is for students in 10th grade and below, and covers the high school curriculum up to 10th grade. Students in grade 10 or below and under 17.5 years of age on the day of the contest can take the AMC 10.
The AMC 12 covers the entire high school curriculum including trigonometry, advanced algebra, and advanced geometry, but excluding calculus. Students in grade 12 or below and under 19.5 years of age on the day of the contest can take the AMC 12.
Lots of AMC example problems and solutions are online here.
This year we are offering TWO AMC competition dates!
The AMC10/12A will take place on Thursday, 1/30/20 from 9:40 to 11:10am in Plimpton. [You’d miss F period and the first 10 minutes of G period. It’s a green Thursday.]
The AMC10/12B will take place on Wednesday, 2/5/20 from 9:40 to 11:10am in Plimpton. [You’d miss E period and assembly. It’s a blue Wednesday.]
Student can sign up for BOTH competitions! [They are the same difficulty.]
A strong AMC score can be an EXCELLENT thing to submit on college applications! (It’s TOTALLY optional to submit your score.)
For complete competition information and to sign up, please head over to this page.
The AMC 10/12 will be run on Wednesday, February 13th from 8:30 to 10am in Plimpton.
You can sign up right here.
The competition is open to all Williston students who are taking at least Algebra 2.
Generally speaking, students students in Algebra 2 Honors or above should sign up for the AMC10 and students in Precalculus Honors or above should sign up for the AMC12.
There are 20 spots available for each competition. Spots will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
You can learn more about the competition right here.
Practice problems can be viewed here.
Competitors will miss D period and the first 30 minutes of E period on the day of the competition. Competitors are REQUIRED to speak to their D and E period teachers the week before the competition in order to prearrange how to best complete all make up work.
Email questions to Mr. Seamon at jseamon@williston.com
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)
What a year for the @WillistonNS math team! Read all about it here: https://t.co/ylBbSMkFYu pic.twitter.com/tAYKozyITc
— Josh Seamon (@MrJoshSeamon) June 8, 2018
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!
The @maanow #amc8 has begun @WillistonNS! #TheFutureIsBright! pic.twitter.com/NcyN8MpYAK
— Josh Seamon (@MrJoshSeamon) November 14, 2017
On Saturday, 11/11, the team finished 64th out of 110 — our best ever! — at the ultra-competitive Harvard-MIT Math Tournament!
The @WillistonNS math team is about to begin competing here @Harvard HMMT! https://t.co/sRHQOtDlSK pic.twitter.com/G0oOZJveVU
— Josh Seamon (@MrJoshSeamon) November 11, 2017
On Tuesday, 10/17, the team finished 7th out of 90 in our first time attending the WPI math competition!
The @WillistonNS math team finished 7th out of 90 teams at the @WPI meet! Steven Wang (‘20) earned a perfect score on the individual round! pic.twitter.com/jfTo3V7eOa
— Josh Seamon (@MrJoshSeamon) October 17, 2017
Go Wildcats!
The AMC10/12 will be given from 8:30 to 10am on Thursday, 2/15/18 in Plimpton.
Anyone in Algebra 2 or above is welcome to participate!
There are 40 spots available and they will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
You can sign up right here!
You can learn more about the contest right here. Practice problems are online here.
