[Ravi B]

I am happy to announce the winning students from yesterday's Math Prize for Girls contest. First, here are our 12 money winners. (The score is the number of correct answers out of 20.)

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1. Elizabeth Synge (11th grade, Boston U. Academy, MA), $20,000 (Score 14)
2. Shijie (Joy) Zheng (11th grade, Exeter, NH), $6000 (Score 13)
3. Lynnelle Ye (12th grade, Palo Alto HS, CA), $6000 (Score 13)
4. Jane Wang (12th grade, Montgomery HS, NJ), $6000 (Score 13)
5. Adisa Kruayatidee (11th grade, Exeter, NH), $1000 (Score 12)
6. Sherry Wu (12th grade, AAST, NJ), $1000 (Score 12)
7. Hanh Nguyen (12th grade, Loomis Chafee, CT), $1000 (Score 12)
8. Jenny Lu (12th grade, Pomperaug HS, CT), $600 (Score 11)
9. Kate Rudolph (12th grade, Naperville Central HS, IL), $600 (Score 11)
10. Janice Lan (12th grade, Blair HS, MD), $600 (Score 11)
11. Ramya Rangan (10th grade, Harker, CA), $600 (Score 11)
12. Victoria Xia (8th grade, Longfellow MS, VA), $600 (Score 11)

We also presented honorable-mention awards to 19 other students. Below are the 12 honorable-mention students with a score of 10:
Tied for 13th Place

Christina Chen (9th grade, Newton North HS, MA)
In Young Cho (11th grade, Exeter, NH)
Jessie Duan (11th grade, Green Hope HS, NC)
Alina Kononov (12th grade, IMSA, IL)
Shiyu (Jing-Jing) Li (12th grade, Cupertino HS, CA)
Mihika Prabhu (11th grade, West Lafayette HS, IN)
Lauren Stephens (12th grade, North Central HS, IN)
Gabby Studt (8th grade, Homeschool, MD)
Mariya Toneva (12th grade, Buchholz HS, FL)
Danielle Wang (7th grade, Moreland MS, CA)
Iris Xu (12th grade, Madison Memorial HS, WI)
Jenny Yung (12th grade, Thomas Jefferson HSST, VA)

Next are the 7 honorable-mention students with a score of 9:
Tied for 25th Place

Allison Bukys (10th grade, Lexington HS, MA)
Rebecca Chen (10th grade, Park Tudor, IN)
So yeun (Ashley) Cho (11th grade, Emma Willard, NY)
Heesun Ham (11th grade, Paul VI Catholic HS, NJ)
Christine Hong (11th grade, JH Rose HS, NC)
Grace Huckins (10th grade, Weston HS, MA)
Elizabeth Shen (10th grade, Myers Park HS, NC)

Just below honorable mention, here are the 20 students with a score of 8.
Tied for 32nd Place

Denise Chen (12th grade, Wayzata HS, MN)
Jiechen Chen (12th grade, Fayetteville-Manlius HS, NY)
Michelle Deng (11th grade, Harker, CA)
Caroline Ellison (10th grade, Newton North HS, MA)
Elaine Fang (8th grade, Roosevelt MS, OR)
Valeria Fedyk (12th grade, Andover, MA)
Sarah Herrmann (9th grade, La Jolla HS, CA)
Kristina Hu (9th grade, Thomas Jefferson HSST, VA)
Joan Kim (11th grade, Northern Highlands Regional HS, NJ)
Kristine Kim (12th grade, Lexington HS, MA)
Allison Koenecke (12th grade, Thomas Jefferson HSST, VA)
Lilly Shen (9th grade, Clements HS, TX)
Sahiba Singh (10th grade, Wayzata HS, MN)
Aejin Song (12th grade, Langley HS, VA)
Amanda Wang (11th grade, Andover, MA)
Tiffany (Haotian) Wu (9th grade, Clements HS, TX)
Elizabeth Yang (10th grade, West Windsor- Plainsboro HS South, NJ)
Ha Kyung (Heather) Yoon (12th grade, ASMSA, AR)
Emily Zhang (9th grade, Newport HS, WA)
Shikun Zhang (12th grade, Williston Northampton School, MA)

Finally, here are the 16 students with a score of 7.
Tied for 52nd Place

Jane (Jenny) Chen (11th grade, Andover, MA)
Angela Choi (12th grade, Blair HS, MD)
Angela Chu (12th grade, Stuyvesant HS, NY)
Bianca Homberg (11th grade, Westborough HS, MA)
Cheska (Da-In) Hong (12th grade, Great Neck South HS, NY)
Elaine Hou (8th grade, Young Middle Magnet School, FL)
Sunjeong Im (12th grade, Lexington HS, MA)
Harini Kannan (10th grade, Exeter, NH)
Veronica Lee (8th grade, Longfellow MS, VA)
Qingzhao Shi (11th grade, Ann Arbor Huron HS, MI)
Rose Sloan (10th grade, IMSA, IL)
Elena Slobodyan (11th grade, Bronx Science, NY)
Angela Yang (10th grade, Germantown HS, WI)
Jessica Yao (11th grade, Miramonte HS, CA)
Amy Zhang (10th grade, Lexington HS, MA)
Alyssa Zisk (12th grade, Sharon HS, MA)

Congratulations to all 67 of these students! Thanks to all the 220 students who participated. Special thanks to the dozens of volunteers who took time out of their busy lives to make our inaugural event run smoothly.

I have posted the 20 problems in separate threads in this subforum, and have posted a PDF file of the whole contest on the Math Prize site. (Click on "Past Events".)

[sophia]

What an impressive accomplishment--great problems, great field of contestants, great setting, great speakers!

The suffragettes who once gathered in that historic Great Hall where the awards ceremony was held would be beaming with pride if they could have seen all the young women with so much mathematical promise who gathered there yesterday.

I have a post on my blog
http://albanyareamathcircle.blogspot.co ... ights.html

I'll have more later.

[JBL]

Hi Mary,

I can't comment on your blog, but that was a wonderful summary -- thanks! Also, congratulations to everyone involved!

[shelly32494]

congrats to everyone! :]]]esp. amsp 08 girls <3

yay to iris for repping wisconsin DD

[leslie5]

Will there be a posting of everyone's scores from the math prize for girls?

[Ravi B]

Eventually, yes. First, I will make public the names and scores of a few more top girls, probably on the Math Prize site. Second, I will email all the contestants their scores. (The scores will be keyed by the student number given on the student's name badge.) Third, I plan to produce a few statistics on the scores. If everything goes well, expect these things by Friday.

[bookaholic]

Lynnelle is spelled with two ns. Could you please correct that? Thanks!

[Ravi B]

Sorry about that. I just fixed it. I hope we got it right on the oversized check.

[bookaholic]

Thanks! Don't worry about it. It's correct on the big check, though wrong in the press release

[Ravi B]

Sorry, I'll try to make sure it's corrected in any press going forward, though we can't undo the past. By the way, congrats on your fine performance!

[Altheman]

Hello, great job writing the contest! I liked the problems a lot. In particular, I thought that the algebra problems were nice.

[Ravi B]

Thanks! Given that you have written some excellent mock contests in the past, I'll take that as high praise.

[Ravi B]

I neglected to mention that several reviewers helped me figure out which of my 60 proposed questions were any good. I'll single out JBL for special mention -- thanks, Joel!

[JBL]

Glad to be of service

[Ravi B]

I updated my original post with a list of other contestants who did well, just shy of Honorable Mention.

[sophia]

When you have time, Ravi, it would also be nice to see the tiebreak questions posted. I really liked them, too!

[Ravi B]

Sure, I'll post the two tiebreak questions in separate threads. They were meant to be easier than the contest questions. The quickest contestant in tiebreaks (Joy Zheng) solved them in 18 seconds and 24 seconds, respectively.

[sophia]

Ravi B wrote:

Sure, I'll post the two tiebreak questions in separate threads. They were meant to be easier than the contest questions. The quickest contestant in tiebreaks (Joy Zheng) solved them in 18 seconds and 24 seconds, respectively.

That's quite impressive. By the way, it looks like Joy followed up her second place finish at MPG with an extremely impressive second place overall individual finish at PUMaC this past Saturday!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3 ... 1359927943

[LadyKn1ght]

Oh wow, my photos are really getting around .