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The fifth annual Pepperdine Math Day was held on Saturday, October 29, on the campus of
Pepperdine University in Malibu.
The primary purposes of this annual event are to promote interest and reward excellence in mathematics and science,
as well as to increase the interaction between Pepperdine and our local Southern California high school faculty and students.
Approximately 225 students and accompanying faculty and parents from 15 Southern California schools were in attendance.
This year we were priviledged to have as our guest speaker Dr. Anita Sengupta, an aerospace engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
She spoke to us about some of her work on the entry descent and landing on Mars of the Rover "Curiosity," designed and built at JPL.
The other main event of the day was a
competitive written math exam.
On the exam, the overall average score was 24.9 out of 45 (no penalty for incorrect answers).
A breakdown of results on the exam is here
or a sorted (by percentage correct) version is
here.
Also, a grade by grade breakdown of the scores is as follows:
| Grade | Low | Average | High | |
| 9 | 11 | 22.0 | 35 | Kijung Kim, Palos Verdes Penninusula |
| 10 | 15 | 25.4 | 38 | Samuel To, San Marino |
| 11 | 9 | 24.5 | 40 | Cynthia Shi, Palos Verdes Peninsula |
| 12 | 12 | 25.7 | 40 | Wesley Ru, Rowland; Andrew Zhang, Palos Verdes Peninsula |
Top scorer from each school
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Aritro Biswas, Donovan Lieu
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Arcadia High School
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Justyn Lee
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Calabasas High School
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Ian Pan
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Diamond Bar High School
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Onik Alajajyan, Arev Hovsepian
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Ferrahian High School
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Daniel Corona, Rituik Kharkar
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Granada Hills Charter High School
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Guanyang Yu
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Mark Keppel High School
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Brian Pugh
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Oaks Christian High School
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Zac Parazette-Tillar
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Palos Verdes High School
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Cynthia Shi, Andrew Zhang
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Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
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Luyan Wang
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Ribet Academy
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Wesley Ru
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Rowland High School
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Samuel To
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San Marino High School
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Donna Martin
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San Pasqual High School
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Brian Liebson
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Vistamar School
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Wesley Lin, Daniel Suryakusuma
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Walnut High School
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Top three team scores
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First Place
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
(average score of 37.2)
Cynthia Shi, Andrew Zhang, Mitchell Zhao,
Stephen Qu, Yuuma Sakakibara
Vararat Chaiyont, faculty advisor
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Second Place
Arcadia High School
(average score of 37)
Aritro Biswas, Donovan Lieu,
Jerry Li, Stella Yim, Tony Zhao
Kerry King, faculty advisor
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Third place
Walnut High School
(average score of 34.4)
Wesley Lin, Daniel Suryakusuma,
Luda Zhao, Stanley Song, Ziran Wu
Melanie Hildreth, faculty advisor
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Honorable Mention:
Diamond Bar
Granada Hills
Mark Keppel
Oaks Christian
Ribet
Rowland
Top individual scorers (top 5 pictured)
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Score |
Name |
School |
Grade |
| 40 | Wesley Ru | Rowland | 12 |
| 40 | Andrew Zhang | Palos Verdes Peninsula | 12 |
| 40 | Cynthia Shi | Palos Verdes Peninsula | 11 |
| 39 | Aritro Biswas | Arcadia | 11 |
| 39 | Donovan Lieu | Arcadia | 11 |
| 38 | Samuel To | San Marino | 10 |
| 37 | Ian Pan | Diamond Bar | 12 |
| 37 | Jerry Li | Palos Verdes Peninsula | 12 |
| 36 | Richard Koh | Diamond Bar | 12 |
| 36 | Mitchell Zhao | Palos Verdes Peninsula | 12 |
| 35 | 13 students | | |
Congratulations to all of the top scorers, and to all of the students who participated!
A number of prizes were awarded, including a total of $15,000 in scholarship money to Pepperdine, as well as approximately $3000 worth of mathematical computer software and calculators donated by our sponsors, whom we thank for their generous support this and every year.
Finally, thanks to all of the Pepperdine students and faculty who helped with the day!
See you all at Pepperdine Math Day 2012!
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