Nearly 60 Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology students have been named finalists in a higher level math competition.
The 57 MST students are among the top math students who earned top scores in the first round of the Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition.
The first round was a multiple-choice exam with forty problems taken in October.
Round two, which took place in December, consists of five challenging problems to which the students must provide written explanations for their claims and mathematical proofs of their results.
The second round is now being graded by mathematicians from the 70 colleges and universities that comprise the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The mathematicians volunteer their time and expertise toward this annual project of the Michigan Section.
The students with the top 100 scores on the two parts will be invited toan Awards program on March 1, 2014 at Hope College in Holland, MI. The top 50 will be presented with scholarships ranging from the bronze awards of $250 to $2,500 for the first place gold medalist.
MST students who were named finalists include:
Dylan Gaines
Cameron Gudobba
Christina Li
Jason Li
Kevin Li
Tristan Lupinski
Daniel Mathew
Aashna Patel
Aaron Sieracki
Jacob Burns
Nicole Card
Jessica Cline
Saumeel Desai
Joshua Forkin
Jihye Hong
Austin Le
Connor Masini
James Montgomery
Shweta Pandya
Nawrooz Putris
Mario Russo
Manvir Sandhu
Jacob Selvidge
Jacob Smellie
Andrew Stauffer
Nicole Sunshine
Anthony Taormina
Matthew Vogt
Evan Agattas
Jonathan Boik
Zachary Brenz
Eric Brunk
Nikolas Christodolu
Marissa DeLang
Philip Dooley
Tabu Gantt
Eric Gilkey
Joshua Gira
Sean Gitter
Stephanie Grates
Shelby Imboden
Evan Klein
Jacob Laird
Stuart McCloskey
Cody McKay
Joseph McNeil
Victor Mondine
Domenic Moraccini
Michael Pacholski
Harsh Parekh
Calvin Patel
Shane Penn
Michael Sutton
Chris Tawfik
Vraj Tripathi
Justin Uraski
Andrew Venturini
