22nd Diana Nichols Math Invitational attracts 380 students

The 22nd annual Diana Nichols Harker Math Invitational for grades 6 to 8, held March 18, was a highly successful event with 18 schools and about 380 contestants taking part in individual and team contests. There were 60 competing and six non-competing teams for the team contest.

In individual competition, Harker’s Jeffery Wang placed fourth in the grade 7 category, while Hengrui Liang and Haofang Zhu took first and second, respectively, in the grade 8 category, with Zhu tying for second place.

In teams, Harker sixth graders Taddy Fujimura, Mark Han, Rafa deGoma, Ethan Weyn, Eric G. Zhang, Lucas Zhang and Jocelyn Zhao placed second in the grade 6 category. In the grade 8 category, Kevin Chen, Audrey Hu, Aaron Luo, Ryan Miao, Lily Peng, Sanjith Senthil and Haofang Zhu placed third.

The full results are found below.

Scores for individual winners have been placed in brackets with the total from actual questions followed by any bonus questions. All ties were broken according to difficulty level of questions.

Individual Event

Grade 6: 25 total possible points

Rank

Name of Student

Name of School

1

Charlie Huang (18 + 4)

The King’s Academy

2

Austin Jin (18 + 0)

BASIS Independent Silicon Valley

3

Katherine Li (17 + 2)

Kennedy Middle School

4

Keith Li (16 + 2)

BASIS Fremont

5

William Mao (16 + 2)

Stratford Preparatory, Blackford

Grade 7: 30 total possible points

Rank

Name of Student

Name of School

1

Michael Tang (24 + 4)

Miller Middle School

2

Sophia Fan (23 + 0)

Miller Middle School

3

Calvin Strohmann (22 + 2)

Kennedy Middle School

4

Jeffery Wang (22 + 1)

The Harker School

5

Henry Wang (22 + 0)

Miller Middle School

Grade 8: 30 total possible points

Rank

Name of Student

Name of School

1

Hengrui Liang (20 + 4)

The Harker School

2 (tie)

Haofang Zhu (20 + 1)

The Harker School

2 (tie)

Benjamin Zhang (20 + 0)

Miller Middle School

4

Ian Chen (19 + 2)

Miller Middle School

5

Ashmit Arasada (19 + 0)

Miller Middle School

Team Contest

Team Members

School

Place

Grade

Chloe Chen, Katherine Li, Brianna Su, Ashita Thakkar, Natalie Yao, Justin Zhang and Ella Zheng

Kennedy Middle School

6D

First

6

Taddy Fujimura, Mark Han, Rafa deGoma, Ethan Weyn, Eric G. Zhang, Lucas Zhang and Jocelyn Zhao

The Harker School

6P

Second

6

Emma Jin, Charlie Huang, Kaden Leong, Isaac Chi, Dylan wan, Fiona Wu and Aidan Zhang

The King’s Academy

6N

Third

6

Sophia Fan, Tanish Kolhe, Ishaan Mittal, Michael Tang, Henry Wang, Frank Xia and Hanyu Zhang

Miller Middle School

7J

First

7

Kevin Chen, Bryan Ge, Joseph He, Zheng Sheng He, Xuanyi Ma, Adya Seker and Calvin Strohmann

Kennedy Middle School

7G

Second

      7

Gopal Deshpande, Victoria Huang, Sean Huang, Catherine Jian, Tianlin Liu, Yunfei Xia and Leo Zhang

Miller Middle School

7K

Third

7

Ashmit Arasada, Andy Chen, Ian Chen, Christopher Lu, Nitin Vaka, Benjamin Zhang and Shannon Zhang

Miller Middle School

8G

First

8

Rehan Babu, Yutong Chen, Theeran Sathish Kumar, Qixuan Mu, Elaina Pan, Sohum Uttamchandani and Derek Wang

Kennedy Middle School

8F

Second

      8

Kevin Chen, Audrey Hu, Aaron Luo, Ryan Miao, Lily Peng, Sanjith Senthil and Haofang Zhu

The Harker School

8R

Third

8

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