Nov 23, 2024

Two weeks ago, WAMC competed at PUMaC at Princeton. The Princeton University Mathematics Competition (PUMaC) 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.

To better understand the high level of the competition, you may want to check out this year's power round.

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Please join me in congratulating our team: Michael Aram, Joseph Girotto , Sarah Mao, Girish Prasad, Kenneth Ren, Alexander Svoronos, Henry Xue, and Yunong Wu on placing 24th overall.

Many congratulations to Alex, Michael, and Kenneth who all placed in their individual rounds.

A Division Team results (out of 41 teams):

#24 Overall

#24 Power Round

#32 Team Round 

Individual results

Overall

#35 Alexander Svoronos

Number Theory

#7 Alexander Svoronos

Combinatorics

#16 Michael Aram

Geometry

#27 Kenneth Ren

Many thanks to the Advanced Workshop instructors: Jai Paradkar, Ethan Shi, and Henry Xu for coaching the team. Additional thanks go to Yunong Wu for running an additional PUMaC prep session.

Big thank you to Mingzhi Chen for helping to coordinate and supervise the team.

Congratulations to all participants, the team coaches, and parents,