Ana Moser ‐ 11th Place Region II Algebra II Log 1 Contest
1st Place BL Algebra II Log 1 Contest Max Piersante – 1st Place BL Geometry Fall McNabb Contest
2nd Place BL Algebra II Spring McNabb Contest Jacob Villarreal – 1st Place BL Algebra II Log 1 – 9th Place Region II Algebra II Log 1
6th Place BL Catholic Math League Adv. Math Contest 1st Place BL Algebra II Fall McNabb Contest Abi Sivatharman – 2nd Place BL Algebra II Fall McNabb Contest
Kristine Ehlinger – 4th Place BL Continental Math League Calculus Contest
Jacob Packard – 4th Place BL Continental Math League Calculus Contest
Danielle DuFresne – 3rd Place BL Continental Math League Calculus Contest
Courtney Newman – 1st Place BL Calculus Spring McNabb Contest
Caitlin O’Connor – AMC 12 Winning Team BL
Angella Blake – 3rd Place BL Texas Math League Contest
5th Place BL American Scholastic Math Assn. Senior Division Ze Lyu – 3rd Place BL Texas Math League
3rd Place BL American Scholastic Math Assn. Senior Division 1st Place Calculus BL Spring McNabb Contest Amanda Ehnis – 3rd Place BL Continental Math League Calculus Contest
1st Place BL and 29th Place in State in Texas Math League – 2nd Place BL Calculus Log 1 5th Place BL American Scholastic Math Assn. Senior Division Jackson Huff ‐ 1st Place BL Geometry Spring McNabb Contest
Lani DuFresne – AMC 10 Winner BL
1st Place BL Pre‐Cal Spring McNabb Contest Audrey Paetzel – 1st Place BL Pre‐Cal Log 1 – 22nd Place Region II Pre‐Cal Log 1 6th Place BL Texas Math League Contest ‐ 1st Place BL Pre‐Cal Fall McNabb Contest 1st Place BL Pre‐Cal Spring McNabb Contest Alex Cavasso – 3rd Place BL Catholic Math League Adv. Math Contest
4th Place BL American Scholastic Math Assn. Senior Division 1st Place BL Pre‐Cal Fall McNabb Contest Zach Zipper – AMC 10 Winning Team BL
Ashtyn Zapletal – 6th Place BL Texas Math League Contest
Maggie O’Connor ‐ 1st Place BL Geometry Fall McNabb Contest
Nick Ramirez – AMC 10 Winning Team BL
Mars Kalzia – 18th Place Region II Algebra II Log 1 Contest
Emily Sabetti – AMC 12 Winning Team BL
Benjamin Walter – 2nd Place BL Pre‐Cal Log 1 Contest
28th Place Region II Pre‐Cal Log 1 Contest Yonatan Girma – 2nd Place BL American Scholastic Math Assn. Senior Division 2nd Place BL Calculus Continental Math League – 2nd Place BL Adv. Math Catholic Math League 5th Place BL Texas Math League ‐ 1st Place BL Calculus Fall McNabb Contest Whitney Walter – 1st Place BL Pre‐Cal Fall McNabb Contest
Megan Metry – 1st Place BL Geometry Fall McNabb Contest
Nancy Pizano – 1st Place BL Geometry Fall McNabb Contest
Will Seidel – 1st Place BL Algebra II Spring McNabb Contest
Alex McMahan – 22nd Place Region II Algebra II Log 1 Contest
Michael Gao – AMC 12 Winner BL – Division I Champion and 1st Place BL Catholic Math League
1st Place BL and 29th Place Overall Texas Math League nd
2 Place BL and 21st Overall American Scholastic Math Assn. Senior Division 1st Place BL and 19th Place Region II Calculus Log 1 – 6th Place BL Calculus Continental Math Lg. Amanda Clements – 5th Place BL Catholic Math League Adv. Math Contest
Arielle Rodriguez – 2nd Place BL Calculus Fall McNabb Contest
Elliot Maceda – 4th Place BL Catholic Math League Adv. Math Contest
2014‐2015 MAT Officers – Angi Blake, Amanda Clements, Amanda Ehnis, and Rex Rychlik
Awards and Trophies for 2014‐2015
Awards and Trophies for 2014‐2015
AMC 10/12 Winners and Winning Team Members
Caitlin O’Connor, Lani DuFresne, Michael Gao, and Zach Zipper Not pictured – Emily Sabetti and Nick Ramirez Mu Alpha Theta Log 1 Contest ‐ BL Winners
Benjamin Walter, Audrey Paetzel, Jacob Villarreal, Ana Moser, Amanda Ehnis, and Michael Gao Region II Certificate Winners in the Mu Alpha Theta Log 1 Contest
Michael Gao, Audrey Paetzel, Benjamin Walter, and Mars Kalzia Not pictured: Alex McMahan Catholic Math League Adv. Math Contest – BL Winners
Jacob Villarreal, Amanda Clements, Yoni Girma, Michael Gao, and Alex Cavasso Not pictured: Elliot Maceda American Scholastic Math Assn. Senior Division – BL Winners
Amanda Ehnis, Angie Blake, Yoni Girma, Michael Gao, and Alex Cavasso Not pictured: Ze Lyu Continental Math League Calculus Contest – BL Winners
Yoni Girma, Jacob Packard, Kristine Ehlinger, Amanda Ehnis, and Michael Gao Not pictured: Danielle DuFresne Texas State Math League Contest – BL Winners
Angie Blake, Amanda Ehnis, Michael Gao, Ashtyn Zapletal, Yoni Girma, and Audrey Paetzel Not pictured: Ze Lyu Catholic Math League Adv. Math Contest – BL Certificate Winners
Yoni Girma, Michael Gao, and Alex Cavasso Fall McNabb Contest – BL Winners
1st Row: Jacob Villarreal, Yoni Girma, Alex Cavasso, Max Piersante 2nd Row: Abi Sivatharman, Alex Rodriguez, Whitney Walter, Audrey Paetzel, Maggie O’Connor, Megan Metry, and Nancy Pizano Spring McNabb Contest – BL Winners
Max Piersante, Lani DuFresne, and Audrey Paetzel Not pictured: Ze Lyu, Courtney Newman, Will Seidel, and Jackson Huff. Region II Plaque Winners in the Mu Alpha Theta Log 1 Contest
Jacob Villarreal and Ana Moser Continental Math League Calculus Contest – BL Calculus Key Chain Winners
Amanda Ehnis and Yoni Girma Summary of the 2014‐2015 Math Contest Results Sponsored by Mu Alpha Theta & the Math Department at Bishop Lynch High School AMC 10/12 For more than 60 years, students across the country have taken up the challenge of America’s longest‐running and most prestigious math contest, The American Mathematics Competition (AMC). Every year, at thousands of schools in every state, more than 350,000 students are presented with a set of questions rich in content and designed to make them think. For 2015 at BL, the AMC 12 Winner was junior, Michael Gao, and the AMC 10 Winner was sophomore, Lani DuFresne. Named to the AMC 12 Winning Team this year were seniors, Caitlin O’Connor and Emily Sabetti, and named to the AMC 10 Winning Team were sophomores, Nick Ramirez and Zach Zipper. National Mu Alpha Theta Log 1 Contest BL’s Mu Alpha Theta Chapter placed 43rd among 257 participating chapters worldwide in the Mu Alpha Theta Log 1 Contest, earning a Plaque for 7th Place in Region II, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Middle East. Mu Alpha Theta, The National High School and Two‐Year College Mathematics Honor Society, has more than 105,000 members in over 2100 schools worldwide. In individual competition in Region II, at the Mu (Calculus) Level, Michael Gao won 19th Place, at the Alpha (Pre‐Calculus) Level, Audrey Paetzel won 22nd place and Benjamin Walter, 28th Place, and at the Theta (Algebra II) Level, Jacob Villarreal won 9th Place, Ana Moser, 11th Place, Mariam Kalzia, 18th Place, and Alex McMahan, 22nd Place. Catholic Math League Advanced Math Contest Bishop Lynch placed 2nd in Division I and 9th overall in the Catholic Math League’s Advanced Math Contest, competing against 35 Catholic high schools nationwide. Michael Gao, a junior at BL, won the Division I Championship Trophy and placed 13th nationally among 625 student participants. American Scholastic Association Senior Division Math Contest Bishop Lynch won a 1st Place Award, placing 46th out of 219 registered schools worldwide, including schools in the United States, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Beijing, China, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Columbia, Czech Republic, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Macau, China, Malaysia, Morocco, Nanjing, China, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, China, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. After six rounds of competition Michael Gao, who missed only one problem, placed 21st among all participating students worldwide. Texas Math League Competition Bishop Lynch took 2nd Place in Region IV (Dallas County) and placed 10th overall in Texas, with 44 high schools participating in the competition. Amanda Ehnis and Michael Gao tied for 29th Place in Texas in individual competition.