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Team Blue -  Avinash Feigon, Alwin Jing, Ethan Shi, Yunong Wu, Joseph Girotto, Alexander Wang 

Team A - Serena Ke, Ayush Rudra, Joseph Girotto, Yunong Wu, Ethan Shi, and Sarah Mao

Team B - Elan Suttiratana, Alwin Jing, Nikhil Shah, Aaron Cushman, Juno Yang, and Youhan Liang

WAMC Teams shine at Purple Comet

Please join me in congratulating our WAMC teams on their performance at Purple Comet 2024!


Purple Comet! is a world-wide team competition and all four of 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.


Our teams placed 1st, 2nd, 4th and 7th in New York, and all placed among the top 20% in the world. The high school A Team and the middle school Blue Team both placed in the top 10% in the world


Middle School Teams

WAMC Blue Team
New York:  1
United States 14
Rank:Overall:  19

Avinash Feigon, Alwin Jing, Ethan Shi, Yunong Wu, Joseph Girotto, Alexander Wang

WAMC Red Team
New York: 2
United States 34
Rank:Overall: 50

Ivyn Chen, Marco Ciacci, Selene Li, Ruth M., Beatrice Padowitz, and  Nalini Ray 


High School Teams

WAMC A Team
New York:  4
United States 16
Rank:Overall:  26

Serena Ke, Ayush Rudra, Joseph Girotto, Yunong Wu, Ethan Shi, and Sarah Mao

WAMC B Team
New York:  7
United States 26
Rank:Overall:  45


Elan Suttiratana, Alwin Jing, Nikhil Shah, Aaron Cushman, Juno Yang, and Youhan Liang


Many thanks to Alicia Zhu who prepared our middle school teams and to the Advanced Workshop instructors: Andrew Tu, Vikram Sarkar, and Derek Xu who prepared our high school teams.


Special thank you to the parent coordinators Mingzhi Chen and Jianping Shi. WAMC wouldn't be able to organize so many team competitions without significant help from many involved parents and students.

Spring 2024 info now available!

Sessions and contests information can be found on the schedule page.

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Westchester Area Math Circle (WAMC) is a free math circle started in 2012.  In 2013, it moved to Manhattanville College 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 College 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.

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.