Harker Results

Results of the 19^th annual Diana Nichols Harker Math Invitational: 29^th February, 2020

The nineteenth annual Diana Nichols Harker Math Invitational for grades 6 to 8, held on 29^th 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

6^th 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 Student

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 Student

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

6^th

Jessica Hu, James Lin, Brenna Ren, Caden Ruan, Lily Shi, Iris Wang, & Tiffany Zhu

Harker School

6C

Second

6^th

Xin Hao, Brian Law, Siwen Luo, Austin Shu, Vincent Qin, & Cassie Wu

Miller Middle School

6G

Third

6^th

Appala Raju Arisetty, Anav Bordia, Pranav Bodapati, Rohan Das, Andrew Liang, Issac Sun, & Brianna Zheng

BASIS Independent Silicon Valley

7B

First

7^th

Audrey Cheng, Tiffany Gu, Jacqueline Huang, Neil Krishnan, Juliana Li, Aarush Vailaya, & Jessica Wang

Harker School

7F

Second

7^th

Kashish Priyam, Rohan Ramkumar, Agastya Ravuri, Lindsey Tuckey, Ethan Wang, Max Zhai, & Sophia Zhu

Harker School

7G

Third

7^th

Christopher Bao, Parth Joshi, Brandon Lee, Lumina Lu, Shenmei Wu & Shenlone Wu

RootSTEM Academy, Las Vegas

8Q

First

8^th

Justin Chen, Emma Gao, Angelina Hu, Joe Li, Claire Luo, Julie Shi, & Cynthia Wang.

Harker School

8H

Second

8^th

Anuj Chordia, Patrick Huang, Annabel Qin, Eric Wang, Max Xing, Matthew Zhang, & Baomo Zhu

Miller Middle School

8L

Third

8^th