A team from West Windsor and Plainsboro placed seventh nationally in the American Regions Mathematics League. The 15-member team included Chaitanya Asawa, Ernest Chiu, David Geng, Charlie Gu, Bill Yan Huang, Brice Huang, William Jiao, Kevin Li, Christopher Shao, Jason Shi, Christopher Xue, Jeffery Yu, Sharon Zhang, Aleck Zhao, and Kai Zheng. Individual high scorers were Chaitanya Asawa, Ernest Chiu, and Christopher Xue.
A second team from WW-P competed in the B division and placed first nationally. The team included Tanishq Aggarwal, Dhruva Byrapatna, Sourabh Chakraborty, Byron Chin, Bharath Jaladi, Ziwei Liang, Ishan Mazumdar, Nikhil Parchuri, Jung Joo Suh, Lewis Wang, Julia Wu, David Xiong, Alexander Xue, Alan Yan, and Jasen Zhang.
The WW-P team is unique in that all competitors were from the district. Other teams, including the second-place team from northern California, recruit regionally or state-wide. International teams from such countries as China compete as well.
The competition includes a team round, a power question (in which a team solves proof-oriented questions), an individual round, two relay rounds (in which a contestant solves a problem and passes his/her answer to another team member, who uses this answer to solve another problem), and a super relay. More than 120 teams participate.
Grover Middle School’s grade 7 team placed first in the nation in the Continental Math League. Top scorers include grade 6 Pythagorean Division: Emily Huang, Amy Deng, and Milan Ganai; grade 7 Pythagorean Division: Tianyi Peng, Ronak Ramachandran, Kavya Tummalapalli, David Xiong, Patrick Zhang, and Atirath Dhara; and grade 8 Pythagorean Division: Andrew Ma, Neal Singal, and Benjamin Wu.
In the New Jersey Math League, grade 6 students placed first in the region, grade 7 students placed first in the state, and grade 8 students placed second in the region.
Grade 6 high scorers include Praneel Chakraborty, Milan Ganai, Preston Horoszewski, Sumanth Kondapalli, Yufan Li, and Andrew Xu. Grade 7 high scorers include Richard Chai, Daksh Dua, Kevin Guo, David Lang, Anika Prakash, Ronak Ramachandran, William Wu, David Xiong, Patrick Zhang, Andrew Zhong, Atirath Dhara, Oscar Benkard, and Alex Yang. Grade 8 high scorers include Prahlad Iyengar, Alexander Li, Andrew Ma, and Arshia Singhal.
The Continental Math League and New Jersey Math League advisors are Grover Middle School teachers Kathy Kempf and Lisa Pacifico.
