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Serena Diamond, Max Salvestrini, Joseph Girotto, Aaron Cushman, Alwin Jing, Alex Svoronos, Aaron Pan, and Jonathan Zhou
WAMC places 16th in the PUMaC Power Round
In November, WAMC participated at PUMaC at Princeton. The Princeton University Mathematics Competition is an annual competition run by the Princeton University Math Club.Unlike many other math competitions, PUMaC includes a week-long take-home round that often involves undergraduate level topics that are completely new to the vast majority of the students.
It's the take-home section of the competition that our team shined in and achieved the best result in the WAMC history.
Please join me in congratulating our team: Aaron Cushman, Serena Diamond, Joseph Girotto, Alwin Jing, Aaron Pan, Max Salvestrini, Alexander Svoronos (team captain), and Jonathan Zhou on placing 16th in the Power Round (A Division).
Special congratulations to Alex Svoronos who placed in both of his individual rounds and among the top 10 individuals overall.
A Division Team results
#36 Overall
#16 Power Round
#36 Team Round
Individual results
Overall: #8 Alexander Svoronos
Geometry: #6 Alexander Svoronos
Number Theory: #29 Alexander Svoronos
WAMC wins MMATHS 2025
WAMC sent five WAMC teams to compete at the Math Majors of America Tournament for High Schools 2025 at Yale.
MMATHS is a country wide high school team competition that was held simultaneously at Yale University, Oakton College, UTD, University of Michigan, University of Iowa, UMD, University of Southern California, University of Florida, and online.
Our teams did a fantastic job. WAMC A team won not only the Yale section, but also placed first nationally! WAMC B team placed 18th in the nation and 11th at Yale and even outperformed the A team in the Guts Round.
Alex Svoronos, who is still only in middle school, placed first in the individual round across all the locations. Additionally, Max Salvestrini, Jonathan Zhou, Abby Kesmodel, Melody Wu, Girish Prasad, and Henry Xue all placed among the top 50 competitors in the nation.
Please join me in congratulating our teams on their outstanding results.
Team results (out of 150 teams across all locations):
Overall
#1 WAMC A - Hayden Hughes, Abby Kesmodel, Girish Prasad, Alexander Svoronos, Alexander Wang, and Yunong (Melody) Wu (team captain)
#18 WAMC B (#11 at Yale) - Alwin Jing, Srihaan Seelam, Annabelle Wu, Henry Xue (team captain), Edward Yang, and Jonathan Zhou
Guts Round
#7 WAMC B (#5 at Yale) -
#11 WAMC A (#8 at Yale)
Individual results (out of 841 participants)
#1 Alex Svoronos
#12 Max Salvestrini (#13 at Yale*).
#36 Jonathan Zhou (#22 at Yale)
#38 Abby Kesmodel (#23 at Yale)
#47 Melody Wu, Girish Prasad, Henry Xue (#29 at Yale)
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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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