New Hyde Park Student Competes in Harvard/MIT Tourney

Daniel Celic of New Hyde Park Memorial High School joined other Long Island students from The Institute of Creative Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented Students, Research & Technology program in November to compete with other math students in the Harvard/MIT Math Tournament.

Team 2 placed fourth in the team round. The Harvard/MIT Math Tournament is an annual competition for high school students and considered one of the toughest and largest in the country. This year, 135 teams with more than 800 contestants from as far away as California, China, Honduras, and Canada participated.

The Institute of Creative Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented Students is a tuition-free program for gifted and talented young Long Island scholars to experience the fun, satisfaction, pleasure and thrill of discovery associated with creative problem solving, under director Arthur Kalish. The research and technology program is open to students in grades 10 and 11, who have successfully completed the institute’s primary program. Students meet once a week and continue their mathematics research on their own or at their respective high schools.

Other competitors from the program included Miranda Nykolyn and Sam Latt of Huntington High School, Talia Blum of Plainview Old Bethpage JFK High School, Kelly Gannon of Sacred Heart Academy, Mark Kong of Roslyn High School, Stephen Kyranakis of Smithtown West High School, Nick Marmann of Smithtown West High School, Rachael Park of Manhasset High School, and Zachary Ryan of South Side High School.

Pictured (from left to right) (Top to bottom) Talia Blum, Miranda Nykolyn, Rachael Park, Kelly Gannon, Sam Latt, Zachary Ryan Stephen Kyranakis, Nick Marmann, Daniel Celic and Mark Kong.

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