April 27, 2025

Please join me in congratulating our WAMC teams on their performance at Purple Comet! on April 27. This year we had a record breaking participation with 4 middle school and 3 high school teams competing.

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.

For the first time in history, our middle school team made a worldwide Honorable Mention! This is also the first time our high school team placed among the top 2 in New York.

https://purplecomet.org/results/2025

Our teams placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th and 9th in New York. Both the high school A Team and the middle school Blue Team both placed in the top 10% in the world

Middle School Teams (top 50%)

Overall (out of 333 teams worldwide)
#12 and Honorable Mention: WAMC Blue -    Emily Cheng, Avi F., Yi Huang, Alwin Jing (team captain), Hugh Leung, and Jiahao Luo
#74 WAMC Red -    Ivyn Chen, Marco Ciacci, Keshav Deshpande, Selene Li (team captain), Annabelle Ma, and Beatrice Padowitz
#141 WAMC Green -    Nalini Ray (team captain), Adam Rettig, Brandon Weintraub, Mira Williams-Ameen, Ellen Yan, and Ella Zhu

United States (out of 181)
#8 WAMC Blue
#45 WAMC Red
#78 WAMC Green

New York (out of 23)
#1 WAMC Blue
#2 WAMC Red
#4 WAMC Green
#8 WAMC Yellow -     Jamie Chen, Avnee Inamdar, Sameer Jaggi (team captain), Eitan Rettig, Guru Sriram, and Emily Xie

High School Teams (top 50%)

Overall (out of 472 teams worldwide)
#33 WAMC A   -   Alwin Jing, Girish Prasad, Ayush Rudra, Alexander Svoronos, Alexander Wang, Yunong Wu (team captain)
#62 WAMC B  -    Ryan Chen, Emily Cheng, Aaron Cushman (team captain), Joseph Girotto, Yi Huang, and Elan Suttiratana
#205 WAMC C -   Serena Diamond, Keshav Deshpande (team captain), James Koch, Uri Rettig, Emily Xie, and Chloe Wong

United States (out of 98)
#12 WAMC A
#21 WAMC B

New York (out of 19)
#2 WAMC A
#3 WAMC B
#9 WAMC C

Many thanks to Alicia Zhu who single handed coached all our 4 middle school teams and also to the Advanced Workshop instructors: Jai Pardkar, Henry Xue, and Ethan Shi who prepared all our high school teams.

Special thank you to the parent coordinators Yilei, Jing Li, Maurizio Girotto, and Pavithra Harsha who helped with the organizational aspects of the competition.

Congratulations to all students and their parents,