Nearly 70 Newton Students Excel in Russian School of Mathematics Competition

The Russian School of Mathematics celebrates the achievements of 69 of its Newton students who posted remarkable scores on national and international math competitions.

These students are among more than 900 RSM students across the country who excelled in math competitions this past year.

Approximately 83 percent of Massachusetts Math Kangaroo winners were RSM students. Seventy-five percent of RSM students who took the AMC8 scored in the top 25 percent score bracket, while more than 30 percent placed in the top 5 percent bracket.

The average 8th grade average on the Johns Hopkins CTY (the math portion of the SAT) was 678.

Congratulations to the following Newton award winners (in order of student, grade, competition, award):

• Aaron Stanger 3 RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention
• Adeliene Shanahan 4 MOEMS E Silver Pin RSM Olympiad Silver Math Kangaroo 8th Place National Winner
• Adi Mayer 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors Adler Schultz 5 RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention Alexander Krylov 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Alexander Zhang 5 MOEMS E Patch Alp Derin Sonmez 3 Math Kangaroo 12th Place National Winner
• Amar Scherzer 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors Amith Saligrama 3 RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention
• Andrea Gomez 8 AMC 8 Honor Roll JH CTY: SAT I 690 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Anna Mikhailova 8 AMC 8 Honor Roll AMC 10A Certificate of Achievement RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention
• Arlan Abzhanov 6 AMC 8 Honor Roll Achievement Roll MOEMS M Silver Pin RSM Olympiad Silver Math Kangaroo 1st Place National Winner 1st Place State Winner
• Audrey Watnick 4 Math Kangaroo 13th Place National Winner
• Audrey Wei 4 Math Kangaroo 4th Place National Winner Ben Nir 2 RSM Olympiad Silver
• Benjamin Gribov 7 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Brian Moy 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Caroline Fai 6 AMC 8 Achievement Roll RSM Olympiad Gold Math Kangaroo 8th Place National Winner JH CTY: SAT I High Honors AMC 8 Achievement Roll
• Clara Lake 4 MOEMS E Silver Pin Math Kangaroo 18th Place National Winner
• Clayton Lee 3 RSM Olympiad Bronze
• Cooper Tarlie 2 Math Kangaroo 20th Place National Winner
• David Katsman 2 RSM Olympiad Silver Dhruv Padmanabhan 5 RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention
• Dylan Yee 4 Math Kangaroo 20th Place National Winner Elizabeth Xu 7 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Emily Wang 5 RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention
• Emma MeierEwert Mullington 8 JH CTY: SAT I 600
• Eva Alejandra De Mora 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Eve Martin 8 AMC 8 Honor Roll RSM Olympiad Silver JH CTY: SAT I 800
• Frank Jiao 7 AMC 8 Honor Roll
• George Jumes 8 JH CTY: SAT I 650
• Hannah Wei 8 AMC 8 Honor Roll MOEMS M Silver Pin JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Helen Xiao 6 AMC 8 Achievement Roll
• Hubert Cho 7 AMC 8 Honor Roll MOEMS M Gold Pin AIME AIME Participation Certificate AMC 10A Certificate of Achievement AIME Qualifier Certificate of distinction AMC 10B Winner Certificate of achievement AIME Qualifier Certificate of Distinction Honor Roll of Distinction Pin Iman Sayeed 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Isha Muzammel 4 MOEMS E Patch
• Jack Farley 8 AMC 8 Honor Roll Math Kangaroo 8th Place National Winner JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Jack Sullivan 7 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Jacob Chen 4 MOEMS E Patch Math Kangaroo 17th Place National Winner
• Jayesh Ramana 8 MOEMS M Silver Pin AMC 10A Certificate of Achievement JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Jeffrey Lam 3 RSM Olympiad Bronze
• Joshua Lee 5 Math Kangaroo 13th Place National Winner
• Karl MeierEwert Mullington 8 JH CTY: SAT I 620
• Kyle Lin 2 RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention
• LamAn Wyner 8 AMC 8 Honor Roll
• Markus Elbert 6 AMC 8 Honor Roll Achievement Roll RSM Olympiad Silver Math Kangaroo 8th Place National Winner JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Martin Pleynet 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Nadia Mustafa 3 RSM Olympiad Bronze
• Naveh Gershon 4 RSM Olympiad Bronze
• Nicholas Pang 7 AMC 10A Certificate of Achievement
• Oliver Wyner 4 MOEMS E Gold Pin RSM Olympiad Silver Math Kangaroo 13th Place National Winner
• Paul Chen 6 AMC 8 Achievement Roll
• Rachel Gu 9 SAT II IIC 800 Riley Swint 4 Math Kangaroo 17th Place National Winner
• Roei Asher 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Samir Travers 4 MOEMS E Silver Pin RSM Olympiad Silver Math Kangaroo 1st Place National Winner 1st Place State Winner
• Sebastian Tsao 8 JH CTY: SAT I 680
• Selina Tang 4 RSM Olympiad Silver
• Siddharth Simon 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors
• Talia Belz 8 JH CTY: SAT I High Honors Teagan Swint 3 Math Kangaroo 16th Place National Winner teven Gao 5 AMC 8 Achievement Roll
• Theodore Hill 4 RSM Olympiad Honorable Mention Thomas Garrison 9 Math Kangaroo 20th Place National Winner
• Thomas Wang 5 RSM Olympiad Silver
• Timothy Hebard 4 RSM Olympiad Silver Math Kangaroo 11th Place National Winner
• Tyler Germain 1 Math Kangaroo 3rd place national winner 1st place state winner
• William Huang 7 AMC 8 Certificate of Distinction
• William(Zijian) Niu 6 AMC 8 15