Awards | BCA Math Team

Historical Results and Awards

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IMO Medalists

Hyunsoo Kim was a member of the 2005 US Team , and won a Silver Medal. Ryan Alweiss won a Gold Medal as part of the 2015 US Team , which won the competition for the first time in over two decades. Sebastian Jeon was a member of the 2019 Canada IMO Team and won a Bronze Medal. Marvin Mao was a member of the 2023 Canada IMO Team and won a Silver Medal.

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Perfect Scores on AMC 10/12/AHSME

Club 150, for perfect scores on the AHSME/AMC-12: Abhiram Vijay (1998) and Jonathan Pinyan (2003-B); Junior Club 150, for perfect scores on the AMC-10: Hyunsoo Kim (2002-A), Harry Altman (2003-B), Benjamin Yang (2005-B), Andrew Cai (2009-A), Alex Zhu (2009-A), Michael Tan (2009-B), Daniel Kim (2015-A), Sebastian Jeon (2017-B).

American Mathematics Competitions (AMC/AHSME, AIME, USAMO)

The BCA Math Team has won the Charles T. Salkind Memorial Silver Cup as AMC National Champions three times, in 1997, 1998, and 2005. The team has also won three Bronze Cups as regional champions (1999, 2004, 2009). Each year, the Team has dozens of qualifiers for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam. Students with particularly high scores on the AMC will have their names entered on a trophy donated by the Math Boosters Club. This includes all of BCA's perfect scores on the AMC contests.

Congratulations to Sebastian Jeon on his terrific performance on the 2018 MAA series. Sebastian had a perfect score on the first round competition, the AMC 10B, and was one of eleven students nationwide named winners of the third round, the USA Junior Mathematics Olympiad! Sebastian was invited to the Math Olympiad Program to train as a potential future member of the US Math Team. In addition, BCA and its math team had a number of other qualifiers to the math olympiads. Hyeongmin (Daniel) Kim and Khunpob Sereesuchart qualified for the senior USAMO, while Sunay Joshi, Sameer Pai, Gregory Pylypovych, and Siwen (Simon) Sun joined Sebastian in taking the junior USAJMO.

Above: 2019 10th World Mathematics Team Championships in Seoul, South Korea

American Regions Math League

                        
                        Each year, the final competition – and the biggest team event – on our calendar is ARML. The BCA
                        Math Team has placed in the top ten on five occasions in the past decade, a feat made more
                        impressive by the fact that we are competing not against other schools, but entire regions like
                        New York City, Eastern Massachusetts, San Francisco Bay Area, and even the entire state of
                        Texas! We attend ARML at Penn State, but the competition also takes place simultaneously at the
                        Universities of Georgia, Iowa, and Nevada-Las Vegas. BCA's high finishes are: 10th place in
                        2001, 9th place in 2003, 8th place in 2004, 6th place in 2005, and 9th place in 2010. In 2017,
                        BCA's Hyeongmin (Daniel) Kim was the individual champion.

Each year, the final competition – and the biggest team event – on our calendar is ARML. The BCA Math Team has placed in the top ten on five occasions in the past decade, a feat made more impressive by the fact that we are competing not against other schools, but entire regions like New York City, Eastern Massachusetts, San Francisco Bay Area, and even the entire state of Texas! We attend ARML at Penn State, but the competition also takes place simultaneously at the Universities of Georgia, Iowa, and Nevada-Las Vegas. BCA's high finishes are: 10th place in 2001, 9th place in 2003, 8th place in 2004, 6th place in 2005, and 9th place in 2010. In 2017, BCA's Hyeongmin (Daniel) Kim was the individual champion.

Harvard/MIT Math Tournament

One of the oldest college-run competitions, this tournament (which alternates between the two campuses) is held in February. BCA finished second place in 2001, and took third place in 2010 and each year from 2002-05.

Princeton: The Princeton Undergraduate Mathematics Competition (PUMaC)

This is held each fall, and is the closest destination among our trips. In 2014, we had our best finish ever at second place. The BCA Math Team finished tenth at PUMaC 2021*. Furthermore, we finished 8th on the Team Round and 9th overall at PUMaC 2022*.

Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition (CMIMC)

At CMIMC 2023, BCA1 finished 4th on the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) round and 7th overall.

World Mathematics Team Championship (WMTC)

The math team has also competed at international events, including Beijing in 2013, Seoul in 2016, Bulgaria in 2018, Seoul in 2019, and recently, Seoul in 2023. In fall of 2023, the BCA Math Team visited Seoul, South Korea to compete in the World Mathematics Team Championship. Students had the opportunity to learn about Korea's vast cultural heritage, as well as explore various tourist destinations. All four of our teams did a wonderful job and BCA Teams 1, 2, and 3 placed in the top 30th percentile. We had 4 Gold Medalists, 12 Silver Medalists, and 6 Bronze Medalists. A special congratulations to BCA Team 1 for placing 3rd overall in the Advanced Division as well as to Marvin Mao for winning 1st place individually!

As of summer 2024, we are currently gathering interest for this year's WMTC trip to Qatar, so be on the watch!

BCA Math Team at the 2023 WMTC. Thanks to Joy Ren for editing the video!
Song: Gradation by 10cm

BCA Math Team at the 2019 WMTC. Special thanks to Vivian Tan for recording and editing this video.

BCA Math Team at the 2013 WMTC in Beijing.

Lehigh

In the two years we attended the Lehigh University High School Math Tournament, BCA won the award for top overall school, and has had a student in the top three individuals each time.

Other

Other trips the Math Team has taken include Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Berkeley.

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