“Despite the complications of running the contest under unusual conditions, it was rewarding and inspiring to see so many students involved,” said Nickolas Rollick, a researcher and instructor in the Faculty of Mathematics and the contest organizer this year.
478 students complete the optional and lighthearted mathematics challenge, an increase of ten on the 2019 numbers. Along with mathematics students, there were significant numbers of students enrolling from the Faculties of Engineering (~100) and Science (~50).
This was the first year that Rollick was the organizer of the contest that was originally started by Ian VanderBurgh in 2001. Rollick took over administering the contest from J.P. Pretti, who had been organizing for the past ten years.
Congratulations to each of the following top-performing students, who all earned a score of at least 144 out of 150:
1st-year
students:
Ethan
Liu,
Jongwoo
Shin
2nd-year
students:
Kevin
Wan,
Jonathan
Nitisastro
Honourable mentions go to Star Xie, Harry Jiang, Yueming Cai, Michael Hahn, Boya Yang, Thalia Wahyudi, Keming Ouyang, Rainbow Li, Zev Friedman, Valentio Iverson, Zhi Rong Cai, Kevin Lu, Marcus Chan, Andrew Dong and Ethan Darbournel.
Rollick expressed his gratitude to Jeff Anderson, Terry Bae, Shane Bauman, Robert Garbary, Mike Eden, Megan Martin, Paul McGrath, Ian Payne, J.P. Pretti, Ian VanderBurgh and Heather Vo for their help in the preparation and administration of the contest.