AoPS Wiki:AoPS Community Awards

This AoPS Community Awards page is a celebration of the accomplishments of members of the AoPS community.

IMO Participants and Medalists

This is a list of members of the AoPS community who have competed for their country at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Participants

• Zachary Abel (2006)
• Robert Cordwell (2005)
• Sherry Gong (2003, 2004, 2005)
• Daniel Kane
• Nate Ince (2004)
• Thomas Mildorf (2005)
• Alison Miller (2004)
• Naoki Sato
• Valentin Vornicu

Gold medalists

• Robert Cordwell (2005)
• Thomas Mildorf (2005)
• Alison Miller (2004)

Silver medalists

• Sherry Gong (2005)
• Nate Ince (2004)
• Naoki Sato

Bronze medalists

• Sherry Gong (2004)
• Naoki Sato
• Valentin Vornicu

USAMO

The following AoPSers have won the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO):

Perfect Scorers

• Daniel Kane

Winners

• Sherry Gong (2006)
• Yi Han (2006)
• Yakov Berchenko Kogan (2006)
• Tedrick Leung (2006)
• Richard Mccutchen (2006)
• David Patrick (1988)
• Richard Rusczyk (1989)
• Peng Shi (2006)
• Yi Sun (2006)
• Arnav Tripathy (2006)
• Alex Zhai (2006)
• Yufei Zhao (2006)

Putnam Fellows

The top 5 students on the collegiate Putnam Exam are named Putnam Fellows.

• Daniel Kane (2003, 2004, 2005)
• Kiran Kedlaya (1994, 1995, 1996)
• Matthew Ince (2005)

Siemens Competition Winners

• Michael Viscardi (2006)

Clay Junior Fellows

Each year since 2003, the Clay Mathematics Institute has selected 12 Junior Fellows.

• Thomas Belulovich (2005)
• Atoshi Chowdhury (2003)
• Robert Cordwell (2005)
• Eve Drucker (2003)
• Matthew Ince (2004)
• Nate Ince (2004)
• Hyun Soo Kim (2005)
• Raju Krishnamoorthy (2005)
• Alison Miller (2003)
• Brian Rice (2003)
• Dmitry Taubinski (2005)
• Ameya Velingker (2005)

Perfect AIME Scores

Very few students have ever achieved a perfect score on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME)

• Mathew Crawford (1992)
• Sandor Lehoczky (1990)
• Richard Rusczyk (1989)

Perfect AMC Scores

Perfect AMC 12 Scores

The AMC 12 is a challenging examination for students in grades 12 and below administered by the American Mathematics Competitions.

• Zachary Abel (2005)
• Ruozhou (Joe) Jia (2003)
• Joel Lewis (2003)
• Jonathan Lowd (2003)
• Thomas Mildorf (2004)
• Alison Miller (2004)
• Albert Ni (2003)
• Ajai Sharma (2004)

Perfect AMC 10 Scores

The AMC 10 is a challenging examination for students in grades 10 and below administered by the American Mathematics Competitions.

• Yifan Cao (2005)
• Zhou Fan (2005)
• Keone Hon (2005)
• Susan Hu (2005)
• Vincent Le (2006)
• Patricia Li (2005)
• Howard Tong (2005)

Perfect AHSME Scores

The American High School Mathematics Examination (AHSME) was the predecessor of the AMC 12.

• Christopher Chang (1994, 1995, 1996)
• Mathew Crawford (1994, 1995)
• David Patrick (1988)

MATHCOUNTS

MathCounts is the premier middle school mathematics competition in the U.S.

National Champions

• Daesun Yim (2006)

National Top 12

• Andrew Ardito (2005, 2006)
• Christopher Chang (1991, 1992)
• Joseph Chu (2004)
• Mathew Crawford (1990, 1991)
• Karlanna Lewis (2005)
• Daniel Li (2006)
• Patricia Li (2005)
• Daesun Yim (2006)
• Mark Zhang (2005)

Masters Round Champions

• Christopher Chang (1991)
• Daniel Li (2006)

National Test Champions

• Mathew Crawford (1990)

National Team Champions

• Mathew Crawford (1991) Alabama MathCounts
• Daniel Li (2006) Virginia MathCounts
• Mark Zhang (2005) Texas MathCounts

Word Power Challenge

The Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge tests vocabularies of middle school students. The following members of the AoPS community were scholarship winners at the national contest:

• Billy Dorminy (2005) 2nd place
• Joe Shepherd (2006) 1st place

See also

• Academic competitions
• Mathematics competitions
• Mathematics competition resources