Results of the 19th annual Diana Nichols Harker Math Invitational: 29th February, 2020
The nineteenth annual Diana Nichols Harker Math Invitational for grades 6 to 8, held on 29th February, 2020 was a highly successful event with 10 schools (AccelPlus Homeschool, BASIS Independent Silicon Valley, Challenger School - Berryessa, Challenger School – Shawnee Lane, Miller Middle School, Peterson Middle School, Redwood Middle School, RootSTEM Academy, Las Vegas, Sierramont Middle School and host Harker School) and about 200 contestants taking part in the individual and team contests. There were 33 competing and 2 non-competing teams for the team contest.
Due to concerns about the COVID-19 virus, 4 schools decided to drop out of the competition at the last minute.
A shout-out to RootSTEM Academy, Las Vegas who brought in students from out of state for the fourth year in a row, coming in with two teams in the 8th grade.
The results are as follows:
Estimation Contest Winner: Evan Zhang from Harker School whose guess was 1980 for the total number of digits in the sign ‘2020 HMI’. The actual answer was answer was 1955.
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.
There was a 3-way tie for the top place in 6th grade team contest.
Individual Event
6th grade: Total Possible points 20+5
Rank
Name of Student
Name of School
1
Lily Shi (18+1)
Harker School
2
Brian Law (16+2)
Miller Middle School
3
Kevin Zhu (15+4)
Miller Middle School
4
Evan Liu (15+4)
Miller Middle School
5
Kallie Wang (15+0)
Harker School
6
James Lin (15+0)
Harker School
7th grade: Total Possible points 25+5
Rank
Name of School
1
Rohan Das (24+4)
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
2
Aarush Vailaya (20+0)
Harker School
3
Sanya Badhe (19+0)
Miller Middle School
4
Juliana Li (18+2)
Harker School
5
Jessica Wang (18+1)
Harker School
6
Issac Sun (18+1)
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
8th grade: Total Possible points 25+5
Rank
Name of School
1
Christopher Bao (22+5)
RootSTEM Academy
1
Patrick Huang (21+3)
Miller Middle School
2
Shenlone Wu (19+0)
RootSTEM Academy
3
Jaimin Xie (18+0)
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
4
Emma Gao (17+2)
Harker School
5
Krishnaveni Parvataneni (16+5)
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
6
Parth Joshi (16+0)
RootSTEM Academy
7
Julie Shi (16+0)
Harker School
8
Joe Li (16+0)
Harker School
Team Contest
Team Members
School
Place
Grade
Aditya Bharadwaj, Aanya Gupta, Bill Huang, Roger Jin, Albert Li, Aadrit Talukdar, & Joyce Wang
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
6A
First
6th
Jessica Hu, James Lin, Brenna Ren, Caden Ruan, Lily Shi, Iris Wang, & Tiffany Zhu
Harker School
6C
Second
6th
Xin Hao, Brian Law, Siwen Luo, Austin Shu, Vincent Qin, & Cassie Wu
Miller Middle School
6G
Third
6th
Appala Raju Arisetty, Anav Bordia, Pranav Bodapati, Rohan Das, Andrew Liang, Issac Sun, & Brianna Zheng
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
7B
First
7th
Audrey Cheng, Tiffany Gu, Jacqueline Huang, Neil Krishnan, Juliana Li, Aarush Vailaya, & Jessica Wang
Harker School
7F
Second
7th
Kashish Priyam, Rohan Ramkumar, Agastya Ravuri, Lindsey Tuckey, Ethan Wang, Max Zhai, & Sophia Zhu
Harker School
7G
Third
7th
Christopher Bao, Parth Joshi, Brandon Lee, Lumina Lu, Shenmei Wu & Shenlone Wu
RootSTEM Academy, Las Vegas
8Q
First
8th
Justin Chen, Emma Gao, Angelina Hu, Joe Li, Claire Luo, Julie Shi, & Cynthia Wang.
Harker School
8H
Second
8th
Anuj Chordia, Patrick Huang, Annabel Qin, Eric Wang, Max Xing, Matthew Zhang, & Baomo Zhu
Miller Middle School
8L
Third
8th