Redmond students make honor roll at math competition

Students from six schools in the Lake Washington School District competed in the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 8 in November.

Students from six schools in the Lake Washington School District competed in the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 8 in November.

The Redmond schools that participated in the competition were Louisa May Alcott Elementary School, Evergreen Middle School (EMS) and Redmond Middle School (RMS).

Of those schools, two were named to the Washington State School Honor Roll: RMS (73.0 total school score) and EMS (66.0 total school score). This is the fourth year for RMS to receive this recognition and first year for EMS. The four other schools were recognized on the School Merit Roll.

In addition to the school awards, 19 students were recognized on the AMC 8 Distinguished Honor Roll for achieving scores in the top 1 percent, including one RMS student who achieved a perfect score (25): eighth grader Daniel Liu.

Thirty-five additional students were recognized on the AMC 8 Honor Roll for achieving scores in the top 5 percent.

AMC 8 Distinguished Honor Roll (top 1 percent)

RMS

Eighth graders: Daniel Liu, Maria Ilac, Lucy Jiang, Virginia Qian, Anna Wang, Sneha Durairaj, Rashida Hakim, Frederick Qin, Suchi Sridhar, Artem Astapchuk, Andreea Ifrim, Neha Nagvekar and Claire Qu

Seventh graders: Matthew He and Rene Yu

EMS

Sixth grader: Arpit Ranasaria

Alcott Elementary

Fifth graders: Daniel Dickman and Patrick Peng

AMC 8 Honor Roll (top 5 percent)

RMS

Eighth graders: August Chen, Tudor Fanaru, Rishma Murugan, Mingqi Wang, Vaishnavi Phadnis, Allie Hanson and Aramya Trivedi

Seventh graders: Jevin Gu, Grace Kim, Kenneth Ma, Arushi Aggarwal, Ritika Iyer, Tej Sathe and Pranav Vaid

Sixth graders: Ananya Jain, Darren Denq, Ashley Luty, Mukil Shanmugam, Kavi Singh and Atul Ajoy

EMS

Eighth graders: Lawrence Atienza and Prerana Kulkarni

Seventh graders: Martin Shi, Shuhua Xie and Kevin Cai

Sixth graders: Vedantha Venkatapathy, Jennifer Chou, Sathvik Kakanuru and Sanjai Prabakarraj

Alcott Elementary

Fifth grader: Kevin Zhang