The Thirty-sixth Annual

Rose-Hulman High-school Mathematics Contest




The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Mathematics Contest takes place annually on the second Saturday in November. The thirty-sixth contest took place Saturday, November 10, 2001.

This year's top finishers were
1. Terre Haute South Vigo High School 1026
2. Park Tudor 870
3. Hamilton Southeastern 834

The 2001 class winners were
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
1. Terre Haute South 234 Terre Haute South 276 Indiana Academy 274 Terre Haute South 314
2. Hamilton Southeastern 193 Park Tudor 261 Hamilton Southeastern 243 Castle 240
3. Carmel 182 Columbus North 227 Park Tudor 211 Perry Meridian 235

Top scoring individuals were
	Senior                                           Junior
1.      Prashant Tatineni 85    Castle                    Tuck Robinson 88         Indiana Academy
                                                          Feng Tu 88               Hamilton Southeastern
2.	Damon Jones 84          Terre Haute South         Marty Chung 83           Carmel
3.	Phillip Powell 79       Terre Haute South         Natty Bokenkamp          Indiana Academy 
4.	Ryan Cable 77           Indiana Academy           Sheryl Pai               Hamilton Souteastern
	Nathaniel Evans 77      Terre Haute South         Jerry Wu                 Carmel
5.	Eric Smith              Terre Haute South         Ryan Bergan              Urbana
                                                          Meg Bourdillon           Park Tudor
                                                          Irene Sun                Ben Davis
6.      Max Brustkern           Indiana Academy
6.	Daniel Wilhelm          Columbus North            Angela Jiang             Indiana Academy
7.	Ryan Overpeck            South Vermillion         Yuan Zhou                Terre Haute South
	Lynette Disch           Perry Meridian            
        Xi Zeng                 Urbana
8.	Allan Patterson         Castle                    Brian Murphy             Covenant Christian
9.	Neil Ramolia            Terre Haute South         Abby Colson              Hamilton Southeastern
	
10. 	John Stickler           Ben Davis                 Allan Hall               Brebeuf
        Ashley Gorski           Terre Haute North         Bob Hammond              Brebeuf
                                                          Meghan Jones             Urbana
11.	Bryan Woodard           Perry Meridian            Aaron Cantrell           Perry Meridian
	Ben Pollack             Park Tudor                Ross Cunning             Park Tudor
12.	Natalya Blumenfeld      Park Tudor                Brant Gurganus           Perry Meridian
                                                          Charles Liles            Brebeuf
	                                                  AJ Polky                 Terre Haute South
Congratulations to Lynette Disch, Nathanial Evans, Damon Jones, and Pashant Tatineni who earned individual awards for the fourth time.
	Sophomore				         Freshman
        NAME              SCHOOL                          NAME                  SCHOOL
1.	Ann Chi 89        Terre Haute South	          Ken Yon Hui 74        Park Tudor
2.	Brandon Lynch 79  Terre Haute South               Kristen Konig 65      Hamilton Southeastern
3.	Jason Brown 77    Park Tudor                      Sushma Tatineni 64    Castle
4.	Luobei Zhu        Carmel                          James Powell 62       Terre Haute South
5.	Patrick Mihelich  Park Tudor	                  Rosemary Luo          Terre Haute South
6.	Tyler Wycloff     Central Catholic	          Ruth Dhanaraj         Carmel
	                                                  Avinash Puchalapalli  Terre Haute South
7.	Peter Ho          Urbana                          Swathi Ponugoti       Terre Haute South
	Noah Wright       Terre Haute South	          
8.	Mark Amos         Perry Meridian	          Chris Lambie-Hanson   Brebeuf
9.	Alex Clerc        Columbus North 	          Aaron Smith           Columbus North
10.	Michael Munson    Terre Haute North	          Ken Pesyna            Carmel
        Steven Maynard    Terre Haute South
11.     Scott Vandyke     Covenant Christian              Joe Filomena          Carmel
12.	John Loser        Park Tudor                      William Bennett       Perry Meridian
                                                          Alison Howard         Terre Haute North
        

This year there were nearly 419 students from 23 schools registered for the contest. The schools competing this year were:
Arsenal Tech, Ben Davis, Brebeuf Jesuit Prep School, Broad Ripple, Carmel, Castle, Central Catholic, Columbus North, Covenant Christian, Hamilton Southeastern, Heritage Hills Indiana Academy, Indianapolis Lutheran. North Newton, North Vermillion, Park Tudor, Perry Meridian, South Vermillion, Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South, Terre Haute West Vigo, Urbana, and Westview

A summary of the scoring for this year's contest:
                      FR     SO     JR     SR
Number of Students   102    100    109    108
Top Score             74     89     88     85
Twelfth Place         50     60     56     61
Median                29     41     37     40
Mean                29.2   41.2   39.0   41.4

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