The Forty-fifth Annual

Rose-Hulman High-school Mathematics Contest

2010




The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Mathematics Contest takes place annually on the second Saturday in November. The forty-fourth contest took place Saturday, November 14, 2010.

This year's top finishers were
1. Carmel High School1250
2.Terre Haute South Vigo High School 1137
3. Iowa City West 1116
4.Park Tudor   952
5. Castle   930

The 2010 class winners were
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
1. Carmel 334 Iowa City West 314 Carmel 358 Iowa City West 321
2. Terre Haute South 263 Fishers 282 Iowa City West 303Park Tudor 303
3. Fishers 247 Terre Haute South 279 Terre Haute South 297 Terre Haute South 298
4. Park Tudor 225 Carmel 272 Castle 269 Carmel 286

Top scoring individuals were
Senior                                                       Junior
            NAME                 SCHOOL                             NAME              SCHOOL
 1.      Bob Chen 100          Iowa City West                  Lyndon Ji 100          Carmel      
                                                               Shi-Ke Xue 100         Iowa City West
 2. 	 Matt Staib 89         Iowa City West		       Terry Ming 94          Carmel	
 3.      Joseph Botros 88      Terre Haute South               Nick Posey 89          Terre Haute South
	 Richard Ni 88         Park Tudor
 4.	 Matt Kendall 84       Terre Haute South               Youkow Homma 88        Carmel
                                                               Joey Whitaker 88       Park Tudor
 5.	 Tomasso Verderame 83  Park Tudor                      Michael Mardini 84     Terre Haute South
 6.	 Sam Buerklin          Robinson                        Tommy Dauer 82         Castle
	 Samuel Clarke         Park Tudor
 7.	 Brennan Chung         Terre Haute South               Patrick Tierney        Iowa City West
 8.	 Daniel Goldberg       Carmel                          Ray Qian               Carmel
         Jiefu Hou             Carmel          
         Meng Ma               St. Joseph   
 9.      Aaron Cravens         Campaign Central                Katelyn Blanke         Castle
         Zac Erba              Warsaw Community HS             Hee Se Lee             Scecina Memorial
10.      Steven Chen           Carmel                          Mark Botros            Terre Haute South
         Neel Erickson         Signature
         Prathik Kini          Fishers
         SeungHa Lee           Lutheran
         Ray Montgomery        Terre Haute South                     
11. 	 Asna Asrar            Castle                          Mark Peterson          Urbana
         Justin McCabe         Covenant Christian       
12.	 David Hou             Champaign Central               Rawipreeya Laosirirat  Signature
         Caleb Rouleau         Signature
         Lydia Somers          Iowa City West


Congratulations to seniors Joseph Botros, Samuel Clarke, and Richard Ni who earned individual awards for each of the four years 2007-10.
	  Sophomore	     		      	                       Freshman
1.      Madeline Snipes 90      Fishers                    Yushi Homma 100       Carmel
                                                           Mark Sellke 100       Lafayette Harrison
2.      Ji-Eun Choi 84         Iowa City West              David Liang 94        Carmel
3.	David Ahn 82           Iowa City West              Krishan Kumar 89      Terre Haute South
        Henry Stadler 82       Terre Haute South
4.	Likith Govindaiah 80   Champaign Central           Dan Fu 88             Park Tudor
        Neil Jairath 80        Castle
        Ben Sheff 80           Iowa City West
        Melinda Song 80        Carmel

5.	Alex Barksdale         Terre Haute South          Patrick Tan 85        Carmel
        Harry Lee              Terre Haute South
        Nicholas Wawrykow      St. Joseph                      
6.	Luke Kwon              Urbana                     Ryan Chung 82         Terre Haute South
        Catherine Mytelka      Park Tudor                 Beilin Li 82          West Lafayette
        Vaibhav Vavilala       Carmel
7. 	Asya Bergal            Iowa City West             Edgar Hu              Carmel
        Shaan Erickson         Signature                  Wenliang Ma           Fishers
        Victor Gonsalves       Fishers
        Sebastian Junge        Urbana          
        Andrew Mayo            Lutheran                                                   
8. 	Jack Chen              Park Tudor                 Dimi Tcholakov         Fishers      
        Alek Jansen            Warsaw Community HS
        Arnan Rahmatullah      Terre Haute South
        Nate Smith             Fishers
9. 	Peter Lannoo           Terre Haute South          Chang-hee Lee          Urbana
        Jerry Xu               Carmel                     Sachin Seetharamaiah   Signature
10.	Nathaniel Grudzinski   Castle                     Megan Dixon            Castle
        Anne Leonhard          Hamilton Southeastern      Zikang Tong            Urbana
11. 	David Wintermeyer      North Central              Charles Liang          Carmel
                                                          Christina Shi          Fishers
                                                          Krithik Srithar        Signature
12. 	Theja Bhamidipati      Carmel                     Shelia Han             Fishers
   	                                                   

        
Congratulations to the Winners of the Sally Shonk memorial award; Yushi Homma, Mark Sellke, and Megan Dixon.
and to the Mary Rhein memorial award winners; Madeline Snipes, David Ahn, and Henry Stadler

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 Harrison, Park Tudor, Robinson, Scecina Memorial, Signature, South Vermillion, St. Joseph, Terre Haute North Vigo High School, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Urbana, Warsaw, 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    66     80     91     83 
Top Score            100     90    100    100
Twelfth Place         63     58     66     67
Median              46.5   49.5     43     51
Mean                47.7   49.9   44.9   52.0
Note that due to an error in the scoring room some individual results listed here differ from those announced at the awards ceremony.

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