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WAMC wins 3 worldwide Honorable Mentions in Purple Comet!
Please join me in congratulating our WAMC teams on their unparalleled performance at Purple Comet! this past month.
Purple Comet! is a world-wide team competition, and all our teams competed in the Mixed Teams category. Mixed teams are designed for home schooled students, students who all attend the same regional mathematics club, or some other non-school organization.
This year we surpassed our last year record breaking participation by having an additional team at both the middle school and the high school level. Overall, we had 9 teams competing, 5 at the middle school level and 4 at the high school level.
Two of our middle school teams and one high school team received a worldwide Honorable Mention! This is the first time our high school team received this award and also their first time placing 1st in New York. Overall, our teams placed 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in New York.
It's worth mentioning that one of the winning middle school teams had 4 students (out of 6) in grades 5 and below!
https://purplecomet.org/results/2026?year=2026
Middle School Teams (top 50%)
Overall (out of 391 teams worldwide)
#18 and Honorable Mention (tied):
WAMC Blue - Liam Cheng, Marco Ciacci, Avinash F, Yi Huang, Paul Mezy, and Liam Pang
WAMC Green - Zen Jiang, Daniel Lee, Michael J Moopenn-Morris, Brandon Weintraub, George Xue, and Ellen Yan
#53 WAMC Red - Alexander Jiang, Selene Li, Jiahao Luo, Sarah Nguyen, Beatrice Padowitz, and Michael Xiong
#131 WAMC Yellow - Annabelle Bonime, Jamie Chen, A.L., Charles Miao, Samrudh Seelam, and Yuanye Wu
United States (out of 197)
#12 (tied) WAMC Blue and WAMC Green
#34 WAMC Red
#79 WAMC Yellow
New York (out of 23)
#1 (tied) WAMC Blue and WAMC Green
#3 WAMC Red
#5 WAMC Yellow
High School Teams (top 50%)
Overall (out of 506 teams worldwide)
#46 and Honorable Mention: WAMC A - Joseph Girotto, Yi Huang, Hayden Hughes, Alwin Jing, Ayush Rudra, and Yunong Wu
#230 WAMC B - Emily Cheng, Liam Cheng, Keshav Deshpande, Hugh Leung, Annabelle Ma, and Liam Pang
United States (out of 103)
#16 WAMC A
New York (out of 11)
#1 WAMC A
#4 WAMC B
#5 WAMC C - Marco Ciacci, Aaron Cushman, Mark Harra, Alexander Jiang, Michael Xiong, Grant Zimmerman
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Westchester Area Math Circle (WAMC) is a free math circle started in 2012. In 2013, it moved to Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY and is organized by Professor Paul Ellis. We host a variety of free meetings and classes throughout the year. See our Schedule page for a list of upcoming topics and guest speakers.
We are grateful to Manhattanville University and Professor Christopher Pappas for providing space and support to our math circle.
In addition to our various free workshops and classes, we send teams from our middle/high school participants to area math competitions, including the Harvard-MIT Math Contest, the Princeton University Math Competition, the Exeter Math Club Competition, and the American Regions Math League.
Details about joining these teams are sent over the email list, but you may also email westchesterareamathcircle@gmail.com with specific questions.
Westchester Area Math Circle (WAMC) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Your donation is tax-deductible. Please consider supporting WAMC.
A note about age.
A note about age.
We are often asked what ages our math circle meetings are for. We believe that math is for people of all ages. There is a hidden assumption in our society that doing math is 'only for kids' or 'for school.' We disagree. Everyone, even adults, is allowed to have fun doing math. Nevertheless, some things, like our Advanced Contest Math Class, assume some level of knowledge. Let the topics be the guide.
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