April 19, 2026

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

Many thanks to Chen Lei, who was the main coach for the middle school teams, and Henry Xue, Avery Xu, Annabelle Ma, and Joseph Girotto who helped as assistant coaches. 

Ethan Shi, Henry Xue, and Sri Seelam prepared all our high school teams.

Special thank you to the parent coordinators Shan Li, Yunting Lin, Ran Pang, and Ding Wu who helped with the organizational aspects of the competition.

Congratulations to all students and their parents