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Syosset Returns From Long Island Math Fair With 25 Medals

Thirteen of those medals were gold.

A total of 25 middle and high school students left the Long Island Math Fair with hardware last month.

The fair was held at Hofstra University last month with hardware.

Eighteen students won medals in the high school competition, including 10 gold, five silver and three bronze.

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They are: Hannah Abraham (gold), Jahnavi Arora (gold), Maximillian Chen (gold), Jillian Goldberg (gold), Jack Grunberg (gold), Andrea He (gold), Daniel Israel (silver), Sophia Jang (silver), Neil Johari (gold), Thomas Lam (bronze), Kevin Li (gold), Wanlin Li (silver), Arjun Mehrotra (gold), Aileen Park (bronze), Yash Samantaray (gold), Jacquelin Tang (bronze), Richard Tang (silver) and David Wang (silver). All of them studied under math fair adviser John Chae.

The middle school competition produced seven medals, including three gold, one silver and three bronze.

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Individual honors went to Julia Klimberg (silver), Yan Luo (gold) and Giselle Rasquinha (gold), while the seventh-grade teams Kiersten Louie and Amanda Qian (bronze), and the eighth grade teams of Merin Thomas and Victoria Guo (gold), Archisha Datta and Yvette Sol (bronze) and Patrick Chen and Jishaan Alam (bronze) all placed for their respective collaborations. Students at the middle school level studied under advisers Heidi Pasternack and Nancy Zagajeski.

The Syosset Central School District congratulates all of these students on this tremendous performance.

Story by Syntax, Photos courtesy of the Syosset CSD

Photo Caption A: Winners of the LI Math Fair high school competition from the Syosset CSD and their adviser John Chae (second from left) are congratulated by Syosset Principal Dr. Giovanni Durante (far left) and district Math Coordinator Angela Kozlowski (far right).

Photo Caption B: Winners of the LI Math Fair competition from South Woods Middle School in Syosset.

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