Upper St. Clair Boyce Students Are Gold In Math Olympiad

UPPER ST. CLAIR, PA - They certainly know their math at Boyce Middle School. A team of Boyce students recently was named to the National Math Olympiad Honor Roll for scoring in the top 10 percent among 3,154 teams from 44 countries in the International Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle School program.

Phillip Markovitz’s perfect score netted him the Dr. George Lenchner Award, which was bestowed to only 71 sixth-graders out of 77,774 students in his division. He also won a gold pin for scoring in the top two percent of all registered students.

Other Boyce sixth-grade gold pin winners were, Alex Todd, Ben Wasson, Quinton Miller, Keshav Narasimhan and Evan Sarkett as well as fifth graders Brian McFerran, Lucas Bishop and Leona Chen.

Fifteen Boyce students won silver pins for scoring among the top 10 percent, including including: sixth graders Rebecca Lang, Carter McClintock-Comeaux, Sahil Bhalodia, Maya Leyzarovich, John Scherer, Jasmine Dietiker, Carter Chui, Matthew Earley, Colin Liang and Mariah Ranier as well as fifth graders Libby Eannarino, Alex Sun, Mahir Parmar and Arya Patel.

From November through March, mathletes participated in a series of five monthly contests of five problems and weekly practice sessions under the supervision and coaching of math resource teacher Kathy Hoedeman.
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Boyce‘s accelerated math students have participated in the international Math Olympiads for the past seven years. They were established in 1977 by George Lenchner, an internationally known math educator.

Photo via Upper St. Clair School District.