2005 NC State High School Mathematics Contest

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2005 NC State High School Mathematics Contest

• April 28, 2005
• NC School of Science Mathematics
• Durham, NC

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The State Math Contest is sponsored by the NC
Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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Participants

• Participants must be in the top 7 at one of the
  qualifying sites across NC.
• 123 students qualified in 2005
• There were 55 seniors, 46 juniors, 17 sophomores,
  4 freshmen and 1 eight-grader.
• There were 99 males and 24 females.

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Participants mingle while waiting for the contest
to begin
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2005 Participants

• Students came from 46 different high schools,
  including 4 home school groups.
• For seventy students this was there first State
  Math Contest.
• One student had been to the State Contest five
  times prior to this one.

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The contest is held at the NC School of Science
Math in late April.
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Test Details

• The test consists of two parts
• Multiple Choice 20 questions, 4 points if
  correct, 1 if left blank, 0 if incorrect.
• Integer Answer 15 questions, 5 points if
  correct, 0 if incorrect or blank.
• 90 minute time limit.
• Any SAT-approved calculators is allowed.

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Student deep in though!
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Got Pencils?
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After the Test

• After the test students are treated to pizza for
  lunch.
• After lunch students are placed in teams with
  students from other schools for the Sprints.
• Five problems are done in relay fashion.
• Cash prizes are given to the top 3 teams.

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The Sprint Begins!
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Every student gets a State Math Contest T-Shirt
(notice all the yellow?)
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Team 19 works hard on a Sprint problem.
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Sprint judges record answers and elapsed time.
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Top Ten Students on the Written Exam

• 1. Jeremy Diepenbrock Enloe High
• 2. Arnav Tripaty East Chapel Hill
• 3. Derrick Sund Home Schooled
• 4. Yakov Berchenko-Kogan Broughton
• 5. John Pardon Durham Academy
• 6. Jeremy Hahn East Chapel Hill
• 7. Noah Blach East Chapel Hill
• 8. Gregory Filpus East Chapel Hill
• 9. Amy Wen NCSSM/Early College Guilford
• 9. Jim Ouyang East Chapel Hill
• 10. Paul Huang NCSSM/Durham School Arts

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Second Ten Students

• Drew Boyuka Charlotte Home School
• John Berman Wilmington Academy Arts
• Sunny Xi J. T. Hoggard
• Yajing Gao NCSSM / East Chapel Hill
• Kyle Johnson AC Reynolds
• Janette Wat East Chapel Hill
• Daniel Genkins Charlotte Latin
• Robert Gage Freedom High
• Vivek Bhattacharya Enloe

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Top Twenty Students
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Scholarships

• The following colleges offer scholarships to the
  top students
• Appalachian State Campbell Univ.
• Chowan College Davidson College
• Duke University East Carolina
• Elon University High Point Univ.
• Meredith College Methodist College
• NC State Univ. UNC Chapel Hill
• UNC- Chapel Hill UNC-Pembroke
• Western Carolina

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Top Individual Student
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2006 Contest

• April 27, 2006 at NCSSM
• Practice, Practice, Practice
• Compete in Regional Competitions
• Place in the top 7
• See you in April