Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Math Challenge

Lifted from NRO. Are we a welcoming country? Yes. Can our schools do better?

The 2010 Raytheon Mathcounts national competition for schoolkids has announced this year’s winners. Top of the list: 13-year-old Mark Sellke of West Lafayette, Indiana, who made an appearance on the Regis & Kelly show.

Full details here. Final rankings of participants here. Surnames of top 20: Sellke, Narayanan, Song, Wu, Chen, Park, Wu, Chen, Chen, Xia, Liu, Brakensiek, Tao, Luo, Tidor, Malkin, Homma, Yang, Sun, Gowravaram.

In the state team standings Illinois came in second.

2 comments:

Teresa said...

Mark Sellke certainly did hold his own on Regis & Kelly.

Anne said...

Yes, an impressive young man:)