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