2013 Preston Trails Chapter MATHCOUNTS Results

Congratulations to all of the teams and individuals from our local MATHCOUNTS chapter who are advancing to state.  You will see in the list below many regular Metroplex Math Circle participants:

Team Rank 1:  Rice Middle School, Head Coach:  Laura Liu

• Michael Ma
• Jeffrey Huang
• Brian Du
• Daran Zhao

Team Rank 2:  Schimelpfenig Middle School, Head Coach:  Chris Mutke

• Michael Shen
• Jett Wang
• Kenny Huang
• Anthony Jiang

Team Rank 3:  Renner Middle School, Head Coach:  Michelle Edwards

• Max Bu
• Alex Cheng
• Rich Zhou
• Andrew Gu

Team Rank 4:  Fermat School for Math and Science, Head Coach:  Titu Andreescu

• Vinjai Vale
• Adrian Andreescu
• Milena Djordjevic-Kisacanin
• Jonathan Aberle

Team Rank 5:  Hendrick Middle School, Head Coach:  Kathleen DeLaVergne

• Jason Yu
• Annie Zhao
• Eeshan Kumar
• Joy Li

Team Rank 6:  Murphy Middle School, Head Coaches:  Clarice Perry and Kim Dau

• Jeremiah Budiman
• Rishad Islam
• Andrew Kwon
• Harshal Madhavapeddi

Individual Qualifiers

• Eric Zhang, Rice Middle School
• Vincent Huang, Schimelpfenig Middle School
• Brandon Chen, Rice Middle School
• Abhilash Potluri, Schimelpfenig Middle School
• Yash Chandak, Coppell Middle School

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MMC Regulars Continue on to MATHCOUNTS Nationals!

Our MMC regulars: Vinjai Vale, Michael Ma and Jeffrey Huang continued their success this weekend in Austin at the State MATHCOUNTS competition. Jeffrey came in first, Michael received second and Vinjai received 7th place all in their first year of eligibility! Michael and Jeffrey will now represent Texas at nationals! Please join us in congratulating the boys by liking this post.

Top 3 team round schools: 1st place, Ft. Settlement Middle school from Sugarland, 2nd – Rice Middle school and 3rd – Harmony School of Excellence from Houston.

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Correlation or Causation?

The Preston Trail Chapter MATHCOUNTS competition was held at UT Dallas today.  We would like to congratulate all of the participants but especially the three winners of the Countdown round who are all regular Metroplex Math Circle attendees:

1. Jeffrey Huang
2. Vinjai Vale
3. Michael Ma

Best of luck at the state competition in Austin!

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February 11, 2012 – Krassimir Penev – “Nonstandard Geometric Problems”

Bulgarian Olympiad winner, Krassimir Penev will consider a variety of problem-solving techniques and important facts used for solving nonstandard geometric problems. The examples include but are not limited to the Nine Point Circle, Euler’s line, Ceva’s Theorem and cyclic quadrilaterals.  These mathematical tools could be used for math competitions such as the AMC10,12, AIME, USAMO and Intel talent search.

 

We will plan to meet right after the MATHCOUNTS Chapter competition.

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Richard Rusczyk – MATHCOUNTS Mini – January 2012

Richard Rusczyk has created a number of excellent videos for MATHCOUNTS.  These would be excellent primers for our younger problem solvers.

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2011 National MATHCOUNTS Highlights

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2011 MATHCOUNTS Nationals

Congratulations to the Texas team for winning third place in the National MATHCOUNTS contest.  Our own Niranjan Balachandar made the team and represented Metroplex Math Circle very well!

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