Lehigh Valley American Regions Math League team
National champions in 2005, 2009, 2010,
2011. Second in 2007. Third
in
2006.
The American Regions Math League is a national high school mathematics
team contest
that has been taking place each year since 1976.
It is held at Penn State, Georgia, Iowa, and Las Vegas.
Here is a brief description of the contest.
Information for
prospective members of the 2012 LV ARML team.
In the contest held June 4, 2011, there were 133 teams, including
five Lehigh Valley teams, Fire, Ice, Lightning, Thunder, and Storm.
The Fire team came in first place, winning the national championship
for the third year in a row, and fourth time in seven years.
The Ice team finished 22nd, their best finish ever, and the Lightning
team finished fourth in Division B, which means that they will
be moved to Division A (which consists of the elite teams) for the next
three years. Results
In the contest held June 5, 2010, there were 122 teams,
including four Lehigh Valley teams, Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Thunder.
The Fire team came in first place, winning the national championship
for the second year in a row, and third time in six years.
2010 results
In the contest held May 30, 2009, there were 130 teams,
including four Lehigh Valley teams, Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Thunder.
The Fire team came in first place, winning the national championship
for the second time in five years! The
Ice team was 3rd in Division B,
and 32nd overall.
2009 results.
On November 21, 2009, an 8-person Lehigh Valley Fire team
won the Princeton
University Math Contest in a highly competitive
field of 70 teams, and on November 20, 2010, another 8-person Lehigh
Valley Fire team repeated as champions of the Princeton University Math Contest,
again topping a very competitive field of 70 teams.
In the contest held June 4, 2005, there were 95 teams, including two
Lehigh Valley teams, the Fire and the Ice. The Fire team came in
first place, winning the national championship!
Results of 2005 contest in
Division A and Division B.
In the contest held June 2, 2007, there were 116 teams, including
four Lehigh Valley teams, Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Thunder.
The Fire team came in second place. See results in Excel format. Toggle at
bottom between Divisions A and B. For pdf format (slightly more
compact), see Division A and Division B.
In the contest held June 3, 2006, we had three teams, the Fire, the
Ice, and the Lightning. The Fire team finished third out
of 113 teams. Results.
(A tab at the bottom of that page toggles between Divisions A and B.)
Here is a list of winning teams during the
36 years of the contest. Teams winning three or more times are
New York City (12), Lehigh Valley (4), Thomas Jefferson (4), San Francisco
Bay (3), and
Chicago (3).
The members of the
2011 Lehigh Valley teams
were as follows:
- Fire:Bryan Cai (Radnor), Daniel Chen (Germantown Academy),
Mitchell Johnston (Friends Central),
Shashwat Kishore (Unionville), Ben Kraft (Liberty), Michael Ma
(Watchung Hills), Keenan Monks
(Hazleton), Shonak Patel
(Liberty), Ritesh Ragavender (South Brunswick),
Matt Rauen (Pennsbury),
Eric Schneider (High Tech), Tommy Tang (Cherry Hill E),
Anderson Wang
(Wissahickon),
Ben Zauzmer (Upper
Dublin), Kevin Zhou (High Tech).
- Ice: Bhaskar Balaji (Unionville), Phoebe Cai (Radnor),
Daniel
DeFilippis (North Penn),
Nick Dyszel
(Parkland),
Michael Huang (Perkiomen), Chris Hunt (Weatherly), Terrance Liu (Great
Valley),
Matt Kilgore (home), Kelly Mao (Haverford), Alex Mavis (North Penn),
Abhinav Rangarajan (Freedom),
Ajit Unnam (West Windsor), Crystal Wang
(Conestoga),
Andrew Zeng (Upper Dublin), Allen Zhu
(Conestoga)
- Lightning: Daniel Bak (Upper Perkiomen),
Tony Chang (George School), Dennis Duan (Pennsbury),
Katie Hsu (Emmaus),
Richard Liu (Lawrence),
Grace Mao (Freedom), Ted Meador (Lower Dauphin), Sunny Nahar (Bensalem),
Nick Rauen (Pennsbury),
Caroline Su (Churchhill), Ary Swaminathan (Conestoga), Yogeshwar
Velingker (Parkland), Aayush Visaria (West Windsor),
Jacob Wachspress
(Pennsbury),
Xin Xiong (Strath Haven)
- Thunder: Wai-Tim Chew (Emmaus), Sujay Chitta (Southern
Lehigh),
Katherine Dong (Watchung Hills), Claire Fan (Parkland), Jonah Kallenbach
(Germantown Acad), Luke Kim (Parkland),
Roger Liu (Upper Dublin),
Mark Melvin (Unionville), Karthik Nataraj (Emmaus), Rajiv Sambharya (North
Penn),
Michael Samuelson (Freedom),
Jillian Silbert (Linden Hall), Andy Tran (Abington), Changyan Wang
(Parkland),
San Xu (Wissahickon)
- Storm:
Ashley Dudinyak (Hazleton), Nishad Gothoskar (Parkland),
Andrew Hitt (Friends Central), Kevin Hu (Abington Heights),
Dan Kilgore (Parkland),
Viktor Krapivin
(Lawrenceville), Jiyeon Lee (Central Catholic), Robert Liu
(Lawrenceville),
Aidan McLoughlin (Southern
Lehigh), Justin Qian (Southern Lehigh),
Alexia Rauen (Pennsbury), Claire Tang (Parkland), Connie Yang (Conestoga),
Joshua Zhou (Freedom), Michael Zhou (Freedom)
Contact Don Davis
for more information about the LV ARML teams.
Photos from 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Articles about Lehigh Valley ARML teams
Main ARML website. The
results, problems and
solutions for the 2011 contest are available there.
The team is sponsored by Paul Martino of
AggregateKnowledge, Google,
and Lehigh
University, including the math
department, the president's office,
and the Integrated Business and
Engineering Program.
We hope to obtain
additional sponsorship.
For a gift of at least $500, a
corporation
can make a valuable contribution benefiting some of the top high
school math students in the country, and also get your name on this
website and our t-shirt (for a $1000 gift). Contact Don
Davis if you might consider doing this.
Don Davis (dmd1@lehigh.edu) formed
the Lehigh Valley ARML team in 1993
and has coached it for 19 years.
Since 2003, he has been assisted by Ken Monks (monks@scranton.edu).
A team consists of 15 individuals. We had five teams in 2011, four teams
in 2007-2010,
three teams
in 2006, two in
2005, and one in the years prior to 2005.
Team members are selected
primarily on performance on various math contests, especially the
Lehigh University High School
Math Contest.
A list of all participants on past teams.
This includes the colleges they attended. Most common colleges are:
Penn State (mostly Schreyer Honors College) (21), MIT (21),
Princeton (13), Harvard (12), Carnegie-Mellon (12), Penn (9),
Lehigh (9).
High schools (including
feeder middle
schools) providing most students to
LV ARML teams
are Emmaus (88), Liberty (52), Freedom (37), Parkland (35), Moravian (25),
Henderson (21), Upper Dublin (21), Radnor (17), Unionville (17),
Conestoga (17), Pennsbury (16), Hazleton (14), Southern Lehigh (13),
Voorhees
(13),
Central
Catholic (11), North Penn (11), Wissahickon (10).
Our finishing position each year.
Awards won by Lehigh Valley team at ARML:
- 1993: Johanna Miller won the Zachary Sobel Award for Outstanding
Contribution by a Student.
- 1995:
Most Improved Team.
- 1995: Johanna Miller was tied for 4th place individual out
of 1275 participants.
- 1997: Lukasz Fidkowski was tied for 4th place individual in 1997 out
of over 1400
participants.
- 1998: 4th place in Division B.
- 1999: Chris Fidkowski was one of 30 people out of 1575 to get 7 or
more
right.
- 2003: 2nd place in Division B.
- 2004: Jason Trigg, Ameya Velingker, and Yan Zhang were among 22
students to get 7 or 8 right.
- 2005: Lehigh Valley Fire team won the National Championship.
- 2005: Ameya Velingker was one of 15 students to get 7 right.
(No one got all 8.)
- 2006: Fire team was third in Division A.
- 2006: Fire team also won the Super Relay and Song Contest.
- 2006: Shaunak Kishore finished 9th in the country in the
Individual portion, with 7 right and correct answer on tiebreaker
question in 1:46.
- 2006: Jason Bland, Jason Trigg, and Ameya Velingker received
national awards for getting 7 right. (approx 60 people accomplished
this. One person got 8.)
- 2007: Fire team second in Division A
- 2007: Jason Bland finished 11th in the country in the Individual
portion, with 7 right and correct answer on second tiebreaker
question in 2:10.
- 2007: Shaunak Kishore and Jarey Wang received national awards
for getting 7 right. (approx 70 people accomplished this. No one
got 8.)
- 2008: Our "North of Philly" team finished second in ARML Local
contest. Each of the 6 members received $25 prize.
- 2008: Eric Schneider and Matt Superdock received site award for
getting 7 individual questions right. (10 people nationally got all
8 right, about 50 got 7 right.)
- Feb. 2009: In the Harvard/MIT High School Math Contest,
our team finished first out of 154 teams in the two team-based
parts of the contest, and second overall.
- 2009: Fire team won the national championship (by 14 points)
- 2009: Ice team finished 3rd in Division B, so will move to Division
A.
- 2009: Keenan Monks and Matt Rauen received national awards for
getting 9 out of 10 individual questions right. (3 people got all 10,
and about 25 people got 9)
- Nov. 2009: Fire team won the Princeton University Math Contest.
- Feb. 2010: Fire team finished a very close second in the Harvard/MIT
contest.
- 2010: Fire team won the national championship (by 12 points)
- 2010: Lehigh Valley team won Song Contest with acapella arrangement.
- 2010: Coaches Don Davis and Ken Monks won Samuel Greitzer
Distinguished Coach Award.
- Nov. 2010: Fire team won the Princeton University Math Contest.
Eric Schneider was the top individual in entire contest.
- 2011: Fire team won national championship for third straight year.
- 2011: Lightning team finished fourth in Division B, and so moves
to Division A.
- 2011: Bryan Cai finished 9th in country on individual part plus
tie-breakers and Eric Schneider finished 13th. They won $850 and $650,
respectively.
- 2011: Matt Kilgore won the national Douglas Cameron Baker Award
for exemplifying the spirit of ARML, including $250.
- 2011: Lehigh Valley team won the Song Contest.
- 2011: Fire team won the Super Relay.
Our top performers on overall individual
portions have been as below. To equalize, I gave .8 for each 2009,
2010, and 2011
answer
since there were 10 problems instead of 8. Years remaining are included
at end, if relevant. Possibly more interesting is a
spreadsheet listing the 40 people who in at least three years on our
team answered at least half their individual questions correctly.
- 1. Keenan Monks, 32.4: (05-2, 06-3, 07-5, 08-4, 09-7.2, 10-4.8,
11-6.4)
- 2. Eric Schneider, 27.8: (07-4, 08-7, 09-5.6, 10-4.8, 11-6.4) (2
togo)
- 3. Matt Superdock, 27.6: (05-4, 06-6, 07-5, 08-7, 09-5.6)
- 4t. Jason Trigg, 27: (02-4, 03-4, 04-7, 05-5, 06-7)
- 4t. Shaunak Kishore, 27: (04-3,05-5, 06-7, 07-7, 08-5)
- 6. Ben Zauzmer, 27: (06-3, 07-6, 08-2, 09-6.4, 10-4, 11-5.6)
- 7. Ben Kraft, 26.4: (06-3, 07-4, 08-5, 09-4.8, 10-4.8, 11-4.8)
- 8. Ameya Velingker, 26: (02-3, 03-2, 04-7, 05-7, 06-7)
- 9. Matt Rauen, 24.8: (07-5, 08-3, 09-7.2, 10-3.2, 11-6.4) (1 togo)
- 10. Matt Tanzer, 23.8: (06-4, 07-6, 08-5, 09-5.6, 10-3.2)
- 11. Sam Connolly, 23.4: (06-5, 07-6, 08-6, 09-6.4)
- 12t. Anderson Wang, 22: (07-2, 08-4, 09-6.4, 10-4.8, 11-4.8) (1 togo)
- 12t. Maria Monks, 22: (02-2, 03-3, 04-5, 05-6, 06-6)
- 14. Jarey Wang, 20: (05-3, 06-5, 07-7, 08-5)
- 15t. Yan Zhang, 19: (01-5, 02-3, 03-4, 04-7)
- 15t. Vince Roscioli, 19: (02-4, 03-4, 04-6, 05-5)
- 17. Joe Johnson, 19: (98-3, 99-5, 00-4, 01-4, 02-3)
- 18. Michael Huang, 18.8: (07-3, 08-3, 09-4, 10-4, 11-4.8)
- 19. Michael Ma, 18.6: (07-1, 08-4, 09-3.2, 10-5.6, 11-4.8) (1 togo)