High-School Students Honored
12 win USA Mathematical Olympiad
38th USA Mathematical Olympiad winners at the U.S. State Department (starting fourth from left): eric Larson,
Qinxuan Pan, Delong Meng, Sergei Bernstein, Toan Phan, John Berman, David Rush, Robin Cheng, David Yang,
Vlad Firoiu, and Wenyu Cao. Flanking the winners are (from left) ASA executive Director Ron Wasserstein, Past ASA
President Tony Lachenbruch, ASA Board Member Jeri Mulrow, ASA Vice President Nathaniel Schenker, ASA 2010
President-elect Nancy Geller, and ASA 2009 President-elect Sastry Pantula.
T
he 12 winners of the USA Mathematical Olympiad
Olympiad Winners
(USAMO) were honored June 8, 2009, during an
John Berman, John T. Hoggard High School,
awards ceremony at the U.S. State Department build-
wilmington, North Carolina
ing in Washington, DC.
The olympiad is part of a worldwide system of national
Sergei Bernstein, Belmont High School,
mathematics competitions. It is a six-question, two-day, nine-
Belmont, Massachusetts
hour essay/proof examination. This year, 525 high-school
Wenyu Cao, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
students qualified.
During the morning ceremony, ASA President-elect Sastry
Robin Cheng, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam,
Pantula congratulated the students and told them about the
British Columbia
American Statistical Association and the key roles statisticians
play in advancing science and innovation. As a gift, each win-
Vlad Firoiu, Westford Academy, Westford, Massachusetts
ner received a one-year membership to the ASA.
Eric Larson, South Eugene High School,
To start the awards ceremony, Mathematical Association of
Eugene, Oregon
America (MAA) President David Bressoud introduced each of
the students and presented them with their USAMO medals. Delong Meng, Baton Rouge Magnet High School,
With enthusiasm, Art Benjamin from Harvey Mudd Baton Rouge, Louisiana
College delivered the invited address, “Combinatorial
Trigonometry.” Though the topic was complicated, Benjamin
Qinxuan Pan, Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School,
captured the students’ and parents’ attention.
Rockville, Maryland
After the ceremony, the 12 USAMO winners received
Panupong Pasupat, Deerfield Academy,
a $500 U.S. savings bond for winning the Robert P. Balles
Deerfield, Massachusetts
USA Mathematical Olympiad Prize. Wenyu Cao was award-
ed the Samuel L. Greitzer/Murray S. Klamkin Award for
Toan Phan, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut
Mathematical Excellence for his first-place finish, as well as a
David Rush, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter,
$20,000 scholarship from the Akamai Foundation.
New Hampshire
Toan Phan was awarded the second-place Akamai scholar-
ship of $15,000, and Qinxuan Pan received the third-place David Yang, Homeschool, Walnut, California n
scholarship of $10,000.
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