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Math Zoom Academy Announces 2012 Summer Residential Camps

mathzoom — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:30:19 +0000

Math Zoom Academy has released the dates and locations of their highly impacted Summer Residential Math camps. The East Coast camp will be held at RPI in New York from 6/24/12-7/14/12. The West Coast camp will be held at California State University, Fullerton in Southern California from 7/22/12-8/11/12. More information is available here.

Math Zoom Alumni Bronze Medalist at CGMO

mathzoom — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:37:48 +0000

Two time Math Zoom Camp alumni Sarah Herrmann, brought home the bronze medal from the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO). Sarah participated in Math Zoom Summer Programs in 2008 and 2009.

The girls-only international competition, featuring 192 competitors, was held in Shenzhen, China. The tenth annual Olympiad drew 192 girls from countries such as Japan, Russia, the United States, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and China. The competition was originally established as a regional competition for teams of female high school students from China and other eastern Asian countries (including Russia). Several years ago China expanded the competition to countries from around the world, with the USA, Canada, South Africa, and Australia among the invitees. The team was chosen from the highest scorers in a series of competitions sponsored by MAA.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) are the joint sponsors of the U.S. team.

California Won MathCounts National Team Championship

mathzoom — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:51:18 +0000

MathCounts 2011 was held from May 6 to 8 in Washington DC. Alex Hong, Andrew He, Celine Liang and Sean Shi won the team championship for California Team. Scott Wu (Louisiana) won the Individual Championship by winning Countdown round. Shyam Narayanan (Kansas) won the individual written round. Yang Liu (Missouri) won the Master Round.

Alex, Celine and Dr. Wang The Champion Team – California

Bovey Rao (Utah) and Dr. Wang Nick Rauen (PA) and Dr. Wang

2011 USAMO and USAJMO Qualifiers

mathzoom — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:55:10 +0000

AMC has published the 2011 USAMO and USAJMO qualifiers. Among the 504 qualifiers, the following are Math Zoom participants and alumni. Congratulations, and good luck to all!

USAMO Qualifiers:
Ke, Fengyu, Arcadia HS, CA
Marume, Kevin, Troy HS, CA
Yoo, Seung Jo, Troy HS, CA
Gentili, Marco, Canyon Crest Academy, CA
Swayze, Thomas, Canyon Crest Academy, CA
Day, Cynthia, Lynbrook HS, CA
Yin, Kevin, San Marino HS, CA
Kim, Jong Wook, Phillips Academy, MA
Fletcher, Brendan, Charlotte Catholic HS, NC
Kruayatidee, Adisa, Phillips Exeter Academy, NH
Clifton, Alexander, West Windsor Plainsboro HS, NJ
Rauen, Matthew, Pennsbury HS, PA

USAJMO Qualifiers:
Kang, Young Hoon, University HS, CA
Liu, Christian, Sage Hill School, CA
Luo, Vinson, University HS, CA
Qiao, Jeffrey, Rancho San Joaquin MS, CA
Cho, Richard, Crescenta Valley HS, CA
Herrmann, Sarah, La Jolla HS, CA
Huang, Calvin, Henry M Gunn SHS, CA
Zhao, Michael, Westview HS, CA
Zhang, Tony, San Gabriel, CA
Pei, Alex, Harker School, CA
Hong, Alexander, Cupertino MS, CA
Kural, Michael, Greenwich HS, CT
Luo, Justin, William G Enloe HS, NC
Field, Hannah, Homeschool, NY
Pan, Patrick, Home School, TX
Rao, Bovey, Midvale MS, UT

If you qualified for USAMO or USAJMO, but your name is not listed here, please email info@mathzoom.org so we will put you in.

Celine Liang and Alex Hong Going MathCounts National

mathzoom — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:57:03 +0000

We are pleased to announce that two of our students Celine Liang and Alex Hong have made to the California State Team, going to the MathCounts National competition to be held on May 5-8, 2011 in Washington DC. Celine Liang, a 7th grader from Harker Middle School, is currently attending the Math Zoom MC-III online class. Alex Hong, an 8th grader from Cupertino Middle School, is a student privately coached by Dr. Kevin Wang. The other two members of the California State Team are Andrew He from Kennedy Middle School and Sean Shi from Redwood Middle School. Congratulations to all! In the picture below, Celine Liang received the trophy at the MathCounts State Competition.

Alex Hong won Grand Prize at BAMO 8

mathzoom — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:13:57 +0000

Alex Hong, an active Math Zoom participant, once again proved his mathematical capability at the Bay Area Math Olympiad held recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The BAMO exam is demanding and consists of four proof-based problems for BAMO8 and five problems for BAMO12, which students have four hours to complete. One Grand Prize is awarded at each level. The photo below is Alex Hong at the BAMO Award Ceremony held today on March 13th.

2011 Summer Camp Assessment Test

mathzoom — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:38:39 +0000

The Math Zoom Summer Camp 2011 Assessment Test is available for download. If you satisfy certain criteria, you don't have to submit the Assessment Test. Please refer to the Assessment Test page for details.

AMC 8 State Winners

mathzoom — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:34:39 +0000

The AMC 8 was held last November. Some say it's hard, and some say it's easy. Let's look at the statistics. The cutoff score for the top 5% is 17, which is lower than usual. That tells us it does look harder than usual. However, there are more perfect scores, a.k.a. State Winners than usual. There are total 237 perfect scorers in the United States. Among them, I see quite a few familiar names that are Math Zoom participants. They are

Michael Lu
Alap Sahoo
Tony Zhang
Alexander Hong
Michael Kural
Patrick Hompe
Hannah Field
Nicholas Rauen
Bovey Rao
Sam Tan.

Several WMTC US Team members are on the list. They are Alexander Hong, Eric Tang, Nicholas Rauen, Eric Chen, Shyam Narayanan. Samuel Reinehr was selected but was not able to make the trip.

Alex Hong and Zack Lee won Gold Medal at WMTC

mathzoom — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:20:40 +0000

At the World Math Team Championship – WMTC held in Beijing on Nov. 25th to 28th, the US teams won two gold medals by Alex Hong (middle school level) and Zack Lee (primary school level). The WMTC is a new international contest that was held in Beijing China for the first time this year. There were 73 teams 600 students selected from 10 countries and regions participated the contest. The contest consisted of Team Round, Relay Round, and Individual Round at the three levels of high school, middle school, and primary school. Four US teams 27 students led by Math Zoom directors Dr. Kevin Wang and Ms. Kelly Ren participated the contest at all three levels. The Gold Medal was given to the top 6 individuals and teams at each level. It's worth to mention that the competition for the middle school level was quite heated. The first 3 places tied with perfect score 40, and the 4th and 5th places tied with 39. After a stressful tie-breaker round in front of 600 people, Alex Hong from the US team won the 4th place.

Zach Lee and the primary level Gold Medal winners

Gold Medal winner Alex Hong with team leader and coach Dr. Wang

US Team at the WMTC test site

The team trophy for the 4 US teams

A cold relaxing day at the Great Wall

Math Zoom participant Tristan Carmean was honored by President Obama

mathzoom — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:23:56 +0000

Tristan Carmean, a Math Zoom participant from Maryland, was honored by President Obama at White House for his accomplishment in math competitions. Tristan was one of the 24 students from across the nation who received this honor for their accomplishment in math, science, technology and engineering. Here are some articles from The Baltimore Sun and Gazette Articles about Tristan Carmean!