Posted Monday, Feb. 20, 2006, The OG, news

[Note: For more about the ICTM regional, see Linda Song's Feb. 20 entry in the Gargoyle staff blog.]

Uni High math students dominated the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics regional contest held Saturday at Parkland College.

With a total of 693 points, Uni won first place in Division 3AA, a category intended for schools with enrollments between 1,000 and 1,999 students.

Out of 21 regions in the entire state, only two 3AA schools ranked higher than Uni: Fenwick, with 768 points, and Libertyville, with 698.

Among the 3AA schools that competed in Uni's Region 15, here were the final standings:

Uni: 693
Urbana: 491
Centennial: 434
Champaign Central: 405
Springfield: 386
Mattoon: 22

Uni will compete in the state ICTM contest on April 22 at the University of Illinois.

“We will extend invitations in the next couple of weeks,” executive math teacher Craig Russell said in an e-mail on Saturday. “We will take a team of about seven students per grade level (freshman through senior; subbies aren't allowed at the state level), with selection based primarily on individual contest scores.”

According to Russell, students will be asked to attend weekly math team meetings at lunch
(freshmen and sophomores on Wednesdays, juniors and seniors on Mondays), and one Saturday
morning practice session on April 8, to prepare for the state contest.

The following students won team or individual awards at the Parkland regional:

Algebra 1
2nd place: Alan Liang
Parkland medallions: Jason He, Nate Kim, Allan Luo, Cheng Luo

Geometry
Parkland medallion: Jacob Olshansky

Algebra 2
2nd place: Annie Liang
Parkland medallions: Robert Boyce, Luke Chiang, Bianca Zaharescu

Precalculus
1st place: Alex Zhai (with a perfect score)
3rd place: Katie Carmody
Parkland medallions: Alejandra Collopy, Colette DeJong, Emily Floess, JohnMark Lau, Yuzuko Nakamura

Calculator teams
1st place: Katie Carmody, Alan Kessler, Mo Kudeki, Jennifer Roloff, Marquis Wang
Parkland medallions: Greg Atherton, Ian Chen, Emily Floess, Rachel Kaplan, Alex Zhai (Team 1); Daniel Ito, Zhe Gao, Vaishnavi Giridaran, Al Renner, Bhaskar Vaidya (Team 2)

Freshman-sophomore eight-person teams
1st place: Ethan Berl, Karolina Kalbarczyk, Nate Kim, Joe Leigh, Alan Liang, Jacob Olshansky, Linda Song, Brian Wang
Parkland medallions: Jie Han, Julian Hartman, Jason He, Allan Luo, Natsuki Nakamura, Beth Peregrine, Gordon Ruan, Carl Zielinski

Junior-senior eight-person team
1st place: Robert Boyce, Alejandra Collopy, Emily Floess, Tomasz Kalbarczyk, JohnMark Lau, Annie Liang, David Martinsek, Marquis Wang

Freshman-sophomore two-person teams
1st place: Ethan Berl and Alex Zhai
Parkland medallions: Jacob Olshansky and Mike Renner

Junior-senior two-person teams
Parkland medallions: JohnMark Lau and Yuzuko Nakamura; Robert Boyce and George Gu

Oral competition
1st place: Alejandra Collopy (presenter) and Victoria Wang (assistant)

— Gargoyle staff