The Forty-third Annual

Rose-Hulman High-school Mathematics Contest

2008




The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Mathematics Contest takes place annually on the second Saturday in November. The forty-third contest took place Saturday, November 8, 2008. Some pictures from 2008 are now on-line. Rose-Hulman press release.

This year's top finishers were
1. Terre Haute South Vigo High School 1311
2. Iowa City West 1186
3. Park Tudor 1181
4. Castle 980
5. Urbana 834

The 2008 class winners were
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
1. Carmel 370 Park Tudor 333 Iowa City West 374Terre Haute South 342
Terre Haute South 333
2. Terre Haute South 282 Terre Haute South 354 Iowa City West 336
3. Castle 234 Hamilton Southeastern 306 Carmel 321 Park Tudor 320
Carmel 320
4. Park Tudor 232 Iowa City West 296 Terre Haute North 307

Top scoring individuals were
Senior                                                       Junior
            NAME                 SCHOOL                             NAME              SCHOOL
 1.      Pardha Ponugoti 100   Terre Haute South                 Sachin Shinde 100      Terre Haute South
                                                                 Curie Ahn 100	        Iowa City West
                                                                 Tyler Chenhall 100     Iowa City West
 2. 	 Jessica Fisher 94     Park Tudor			 Lauren Stephens 95     Indianapolis North Central	 
                                                                 April Wang 95          Park Tudor
 3.      Anton Goupinets 90    Iowa City West			 Lorelei Coffin 90      Iowa City West
								 
 4.	 Allie Wunderlich 88   Castle		                 John Ryan 88	        Terre Haute South
         Peter Li 88           Carmel                            Shawn Qian 88	        Carmel
                                                                 Jimmy Sun 88	        Carmel
 5.	 Ian Goller 84 	       Fishers                           Angela Song 85         Terre Haute South
         Raj Bhuptani 84       Terre Haute South
         Thane Somers 84       Iowa City West
         Young Seol 84         Iowa City West
         Yon-Sue Choi 84       Carmel
         Ed Coyle 84           Lafayette Jefferson
         Tim McCall 84         Hamilton Southeastern
 6.	 John Wu 83            West Vigo                         Philip Lee 84          Champaign Central
						                 Andrew Huh 84          Terre Haute South
                                                                 Don Nye 84             Iowa City West
 7.	 Kristin Shaffer 82    Hamilton Southeastern             Nate Johnson 83        West Noble
         Cameron Cecil 82      Park Tudor
         Vikram Nevrekar 82    Hamilton Southeastern,
 8.	 Kevin Wang 80         Carmel                            Daisy Zhuang 82        Champaign Central
         Amanda Williams 80    Castle                            Michael Wintermeyer 82 Park Tudor
                                                                 Peter Bittar 82	Terre Haute South
                                                                 Mitchell McCord 82     Terre Haute North
 9.      Arun Theertam	       Terre Haute South                 Eric Watson            Terre Haute North
         Kristina Throne       Terre Haute South                 Shelley Tang           Hamilton Southeastern
	 Tian Xia              Urbana
         Rachel Garrick        Champaign Central
10.	 Mike Gonda            Champaign Central                 Samuel Rider-Leck      Terre Haute North
         Kathy Ingram          Iowa City West,
11.	 Joe Cancino           Lafayette Jefferson               Cezary Wojciak         Signature School
                                                                 Matthew Moyer          Fishers
                                                                 Vikas Vavilala         Carmel
                                                                 Eesha Purohit          Terre Haute South
                                                                 Mitra Sharifi          Terre Haute South
                                                                 Anthony Ton            Terre Haute South
12.	 Kala Ghooray          Covenant Christian                Kathleen Hu		Fishers	
         John Frantonius       Castle                            Jennifer Logan         Fishers
                                                                 Shataakshi Dube        Carmel
                                                                 Sanjeev Chilukuri      Castle,

Congratulations to seniors Raj Bhuptani and Pardha Ponugoti who earned individual awards for the fourth time.
	  Sophomore	     		      	                       Freshman
1.      Richard Ni 100               Park Tudor                     Youkow Homma 100       Carmel
	Jeffrey Shen 100             Park Tudor                     Lyndon Ji 100          Carmel
2. 	Joseph Botros 94	     Terre Haute South              Anirudh Prabhu 90      West Lafayette
3.	Matt Staib 89                Iowa City West		    Wonhu Rhee 89          West Lafayette
4. 	Mihika Prabhu 85             West Lafayette                 Jiefu Hou 88           Carmel
        Matt Kendall 85              Terre Haute South              Rebecca Chen 88        Park Tudor
        Shi-Ke Xue 85		     Iowa City West
5.	Sam Drews 84                 Lafayette Jefferson            Nicholas Posey 85      Terre Haute South
                                                                    Ray Qian 85            Carmel
                                                                    Terry Ming 85          Carmel
6.	Prathik Kini 82              Fishers			    Michale Mardini 84     Terre Haute South
        Raymond Montgomery 82        Terre Haute South              Patrick Tierney 84     Iowa City West
        Samuel Clarke 82             Park Tudor                     Zeno Jeong 84          Champaign Central
        Bob Chen 82                  Iowa City West
        Daniel Riffin 82             Hamilton Southeastern
7. 	Allison Fifer 80             West Vigo                      Marissa Stephens 82    Indianapolis North Central
        Samuel Throne 80             Terre Haute South		    
8. 	Sawyer Morgan		     Hamilton Southeastern	    Tommy Dauer            Castle
        Tom Zhang                    Hamilton Southeastern          Nimisha Kumar          Carmel
9. 	Alex Brockmann		     Hamilton Southeastern          Udit Vyas              Castle
        Bosi Zhang		     Hamilton Southeastern
10.	Peter Mass                   Fishers			    Jeffrey Ding           Iowa City West
11. 	Andrew Herrmann		     Hamilton Southeastern          Ryan Morelock          Lebanon
	Erin Van Wesenbeeck          Fishers                        Mark Botros            Terre Haute South
        Jessica Wright		     Terre Haute South
12. 	Neel Erickson                Signature                      Yucheng Lin            Champaign Central
   	
							      

        
Congratulations to the Winners of the Sally Shonk memorial award; Youkow Homma, Lyndon Ji, and Rebecca Chen
and to the Mary Rhein memorial award winners; Richard Ni, Jeffrey Shen, and Mihika Prabhu

This year there were approximately 400 students from 24 schools. The schools competing this year were:
Carmel, Castle, Champaign Central, Covenant Christian, Fishers, Hamilton Southeastern, Indianapolis Lutheran, Indianapolis North Central, Iowa City West, Lafayette Jefferson, Lebanon, North Daviess, Park Tudor, Scecina Memorial, Signature, South Vermillion, Terre Haute North Vigo High School, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Urbana. Watseka Community, West Lafayette, West Noble, West Vigo, There were also guest middle school students from Honey Creek,


A summary of the scoring for this year's contest:
                      FR     SO     JR     SR
Number of Students    92    108     75     94 
Top Score            100    100    100    100
Twelfth Place         65     72     75     73
Median                40   52.5     70   58.5
Mean                44.3   54.7   62.5   58.9

For more information about the contest, please send e-mail to john.rickert@rose-hulman.edu