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Lehigh Valley high school math team finishes 10th of 88
Students beat all-stars they had never defeated before.
A team of 15 high school students from the Lehigh Valley finished 10th out of 88 teams in the American Regions Math League contest on June 5 at Penn State University, the University of Iowa, and San Jose State University. This was the best performance ever for the Lehigh Valley team, which has competed in the contest for 12 years.
The top three teams were Thomas Jefferson A, San Francisco Bay A, and New York City A. (The A indicates that this was that region's most selective team out of several.)
Thomas Jefferson is a magnet school for science in Alexandria, Va.
The Lehigh Valley team beat all-star teams from Massachusetts, Texas, North Carolina and Minnesota. The four state teams usually finish in the top 10 and had beaten Lehigh Valley the past 11 years. (The Massachusetts team finished first in 1998, and second in 1999, 2001, and 2002.)
The Lehigh Valley team consisted of students from the following schools:
Emmaus —Yan Zhang, Piotr Fidkowski, Adam Hallowell, Mark Witmer and Jay Werber.
Parkland — Ameya Velingker and Shiyang Cao.
Freedom — Vince Roscioli and Zachary Pierpoint.
Moravian — Ranjan Rohatgi, Gavin McFarland and Cyndi Bottomley.
Bethlehem Catholic — Sean Keenan.
Homeschooled — Brian Holder.
East Hills — Isha Jain.
Unionville — Jason Trigg.
Hazleton — Maria Monks.
Wyomissing — Patrick Cesarz.
Patton — Shaunak Kishore.
Conestoga — Tianren Qi.
Although the last five do not actually live in the Lehigh Valley, they come regularly to the practices held at Lehigh University by professor Don Davis, who has coached the team since 1993. Five of the above students went to the contest as alternates and participated on the Philadelphia team, which did not have a full roster. The Lehigh Valley team was sponsored by Lehigh University, Keystone Consulting Engineers and the students' schools.
The contest has four parts, three of which involve teamwork. On the individual part, Velingker, Trigg, and Zhang were among 22 people in the country who answered seven or eight correctly (out of eight). They received special awards.
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