Kangaroo Results in our center

We are happy about the outcome of the competition. 130 students registered for the Kangaroo participation in the BCA center. We  want to congratulate all our  Kangaroo students, and we want to emphasize that  the main result of the participation in Kangaroo Olympiad is not a score, but an exposure of your child to the great world of the thinker-style math problems.

We are also very proud for those Kangaroo students who made it to the list of top national and state winners. (This year, the official Kangaroo winners are those students who ranked within the first 10 scores in their grade nationally and those who ranked first in their grade in Washington state.) All the winners' names will be listed on Kangaroo web page after all awards ceremonies in all states take place.

According to the feedback we are getting from parents, most of you want to learn not only the scores of their children, but also some information about the overall performance of students in our BCA Kangaroo center. Moreover, there are a lot of students in our center who didn't make to the top winners, but had very impressive results. Therefore, at this web site we are listing the names and the results  of those students from our center who made it to the top-5 scores in the state. (The results are made public upon the the parents' approval)

First Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 100)	Name
1	8	65	Ivan Sheerson
2	9	63	Grisha Baimetov
3	11	61	Yash Mehta
3	11	61	Adora Wu
4	12	60	Aran Punniamoorthy
5	17	55	Advaith Bulusu
5	17	55	Dylan Denq
5	17	55	Marko Jojic

Second Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 100)	Name
1	13	72	Surya Gorantla
3	16	69	Mathias Foster
4	17	68	Sanjit Dandapanthula
4	17	68	Raymond Wang

Third Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 100)	Name
1	3	87	Avinash Jain
2	10	80	Damien Snyder
2	10	80	Timmy Wang
3	17	73	Pavel Braginskiy
4	22	68	Ana Jojic
5	31	59	Jake Lee

Fourth Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 96)	Name
1	2	93	Nigel Veach
3	12	83	Nathaniel Yee
4	14	81	Peter Zaika
5	20	75	Calista Chau

Fifth Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 120)	Name
1	8	100	Colin Tang
2	9	98	Daniel Hua
4	18	88	Adam Bi
5	20	86	Todor Dimitrov

 Sixth Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 120)	Name
1	8	103	Anya Meleshuk
2	24	87	Steven Liu
3	26	85	Richard Dong
4	29	82	Nicole Garakanidze
5	30	81	Anand Nambakam

Seventh Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 120)	Name
3	26	72	MichaelVaschillo
5	36	62	Sabrina Wang

Eights Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 120)	Name
2	30	75	Katia Nalimova

Ninth Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 120)	Name
1	33	57	Leah Garakanidze
2	36	53	Michael Petrochuk
3	39	50	Anton Goncharenko

Tenth Grade Winners

Place in State	Place Nationally	Score (out of 120)	Name
2	39	64	Timofey Kolechkin

Kangaroo on the Internet

The problems you will find in Math Kangaroo are appropriate for the students' grade. They require no special math skills beyond what's learned at school. But they are nothing like the run-of-the-mill problems the students normally tackle in class. They are creative and challenging. They require logical reasoning and out-of-the-box thinking

More details about the competition can be found at the Math Kangaroo website  http://www.mathkangaroo.org

Test samples can be found at:
http://www.mathkangaroo.org/2010page/Clark/clark/pdb/#Past
http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/kangaroo/index.php?kn_mod=samples

The booklets with the past competitions can be bought at the Math Kangaroo web site.

No first-grade test problems are available online or in store since a 1st-grade competition is offered for the first time this year. The 1st-grade problems will follow the 2nd-grade problem patterns.

About Math Kangaroo

Northwest Academy of Sciences is inviting ALL children (grades 1 up to 12) to participate in Math Kangaroo. Math Kangaroo is an international competition in solving mathematical problems. It is very popular in Europe and now is finding its way into the United States – including Seattle.

The problems you will find in Math Kangaroo are appropriate for the students' grade,. They require no special math skills beyond what's learned at school. But they are nothing like the run-of-the-mill problems the students normally tackle in class. They are creative and challenging. They require logical reasoning and out-of-the-box thinking

In addition, Math Kangaroo is unique in a few ways. Firstly, it is one of a very few individual math Olympiads. Students compete in Math Kangaroo on their own, without a team. Secondly, this is the only competition that is available for the younger-grade students.

The goal is to solve 24 multiple choice problems in 75 minutes. The tests are evaluated nationally, and the top winners, about 20-25% of the participants, receive special awards in May.

Participation fee is $20 per student. Each student receives a T-shirt, a certificate of participation, and a gift in addition to a competition booklet and a pencil on the test day.

Registration ends on January 20, 2010, or earlier if the center is full. Please go ahead and register at Math Kangaroo web site.

This year, Northwest Academy is organizing a local chapter of Math Kangaroo Competition.
The competition is taking place at Bellevue Children Academy: 14600 Northeast 24th Street Bellevue, WA 98007