The Fiftieth Annual Rose-Hulman High School Mathematics Contest 2015 – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology High School Mathematics Contest

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Mathematics Contest takes place annually on the second Saturday in November. The fiftieth contest took place Saturday, November 14, 2015.

Dr. John Rickert with several of this year’s participants.

This year’s top finishers were

1.	Carmel High School	1382
2.	Castle High School	992
3.	Urbana High School	833
4.	New Tech Institute	442

The 2014 class winners were

	Freshman	Sophomore	Junior	Senior
1.	Carmel 340	Park Tudor 400	Carmel 378	Urbana 338
2.	Terre Haute South 299	Terre Haute South 358	William Henry Harrison 352	Carmel 336
3.	Champaign Central 211	Carmel 328	Marion 317	Fishers 311
4.	Castle 178	Zionsville 312	Zionsville 274	University HS 310

Top Scoring individuals by class:

Senior
	Name	School
1.	Christina Duffield 100 Simon Langowski 100 Daniel Vance 100	University HS Carmel Fishers
2.	Haoxiang (Howard) Li 95	Urbana
3.	Paul Szewczyk 94	University HS
4.	Tingyue Cui 89 Miles Dai 89	Terre Haute South Carmel
5.	Henry Ando 88 Stephen Cornwell 88	Urbana Terre Haute North
6.	Hanyu Zhang 85	Urbana
7.	Melinda Liu 84	William Henry Harrison
8.	Chase Mahurin 83 Emily Tong 83	Terre Haute South Fishers
9.	Mitchell Cron 82 Charlie Hergenrother 82 Audrey Pratt 82	Castle St. Thomas More Fishers
10.	Ryan Jou 79	Carmel
11.	Alden Mauer 77	William Henry Harrison
12.	Kelsie Dale 76 Ruple Jairath 76 Jonathon Ji 76 Matthew Odle 76	Fishers Castle Terre Haute South Zionsville

Junior
	Name	School
1.	Agustin Garcia 100 Caleb He 100 Anthony Ji 100 Neil Thompson 100 Brendon Yap 100	William Henry Harrison Carmel Carmel Zionsville Carmel
2.	Chaman Kunar 95	Terre Haute South
3.	Truman Bennet 94 Selena Qian 94	Marion Carmel
4.	Angela Sun 89	Carmel
5.	Julie Lee 88	William Henry Harrison
6.	Gayatri Balasubramanian 84	Carmel
7.	Carl Landskron 82 Clara Sellke 82 Evan Vesper 82	William Henry Harrison William Henry Harrison University HS
8.	Nathan Fei 78	Carmel
9.	Asim Dhungana 77 Jenny Zhao 77	Carmel Carmel
10.	Sophie Fanok 76 Micah Hoeksema 76 Elizabeth Wuertley 76	Castle Marion Marion
11.	Reka Manton 73 Evan Norris 73 Sunanada Prasad 73 Vaishnavi Ravipati 73	Urbana Fishers Castle Castle
12.	Anton Smodilla 72	Terre Haute North

Sophomore
	Name	School
1.	Alex Gu 100 Michelle Shen 100 Andrew Wu 100 Allen Zhao 100	Park Tudor Park Tudor Park Tudor Park Tudor
2.	Jay Maturi 94 Justin Rowe 94 Allen Zhang 94	University HS Terre Haute South Carmel
3.	Isaac Meng 90 Patrick Mercho 90 Jeremy Rusk 90 Anthony Weng 90	Fishers Terre Haute South Terre Haute South Terre Haute South
4.	Jeremy Chaing 88 John Dalloul 88 Eric Zhu 88	Zionsville Terre Haute South Carmel
5.	Joey Kurek 84 Rachael Tan 79	Zionsville Carmel
6.	Jasper Baltz 83 Anna Lubienski 83 Dylan Verst 83	University HS Urbana Terre Haute South
7.	Jon Hillery 80 Paaras Kumar 80 Dana Yun 80	William Henry Harrison Terre Haute South Champaign Central
8.	Luke Uribe 78	Fishers
9.	Rishi Das 76	Carmel
10.	August Katz 75	Castle
11.	Jessica Kempe 70 Edward Lin 70 Ian Samir 70 Kyle Wang 70	Castle Zionsville Carmel Zionsville
12.	Meghana Bhaskara 69	Castle

Freshman
	Name	School
1.	Joey Heerens 100 Ethan Kirsch 100 Kevin Liu 100	Carmel Terre Haute South Carmel
2.	Parker Jou 94	Carmel
3.	Rithwik Palivela 88 Sophie Wang 88	Carmel Carmel
4.	Tony Ou 84	Carmel
5.	Satvik Kumar 83	Carmel
6.	Amy Tian 82	Carmel
7.	Camille Mendoza 80	Terre Haute South
8.	Joseph Dalloul 79	Terre Haute South
9.	Woojin Chung 76	Fishers
10.	Emily Lothamer 71	Castle
11.	Gary Zhang 70	Park Tudor
12.	Eric Ma 65	Carmel

Congratulations to seniors Tingyue Cui, Simon Kangowski, and Daniel Vance who earned individual awards for each of the four years 2012-15.

Congratulations to the Winners of the Sally Shonk memorial award; Joey Heerens, Ethan Kirsch, Kevin Liu, Sophie Wang and to the Mary Rhein memorial award winners; Alex Gu, Michelle Shen, Andrew Wu, Allen Zhao.

This year there were approximately 470 students from 29 schools. The schools competing this year were: Carmel, Castle, Champaign Central, Covenant Christian, Fishers, Hamilton Southeastern, High School of Saint Thomas More. Lakeland, Liberty Christian, Indianapolis Lutheran, Marion, Milan, Mooresville, New Tech Institute, Park Tudor, Pendleton Heights, Shortridge, Signature, South Vermillion, Terre Haute Christian Home Educators, Terre Haute North Vigo High School, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, University High-school, Urbana, West Vigo, William Henry Harrison, and Zionsville. There were also guest middle school students from Honey Creek, and Otter Creek.

Score Summary for this year’s contest:

	Freshman	Sophomore	Junior	Senior
Number of Students	76	108	102	100
Top Score	100	100	100	100
Twelfth Place	65	69	72	76
Median	40	45.5	54	58
Mean	42.3	49.7	53.3	56.9

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