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Based on results from the USAMO and the Team Selection Tests, the Leader and Deputy Leader have selected the USA team for the International Mathematical Olympiad, to be held in Madrid, Spain. The team members, their grade, school, city and state are: | |||
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| Paul Christiano | 12 | The Harker School | Saratoga | CA |
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Paul Christiano was born and lives in San Jose. He spends most of his time either playing piano, programming, or learning and doing mathematics and computer science. This year he also participated in the USA Computing Olympiad and placed 8th overall among US competitors. His interest in mathematics significantly predates his ability to form long-term memories, so he can't hope to explain its origin, but he credits his high school teachers and especially his parents with encouraging him to pursue that interest. Next fall Paul will attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | |||
| Shaunak Kishore | 12 | Unionville-Chaddsford High School | West Chester | PA |
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Shaunak is a graduate of Unionville high School in Kennet Square, Pennsylvania. He will be attending MIT this fall unless Harvard decides that they can’t begin the school year without him. He’s planning on studying applied mathematics, possibly biology or economics. He won the Princeton math Contest this year and presented a project on the spread of TB at the Young Epidemiology Scholars national convention. In his free time he enjoys running track, playing Frisbee, and playing video games. | |||
| Evan O'Dorney | 9 | Berkeley Math Circle | Danville | CA |
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Evan’s passions are music and math. "I constantly have notes in my head," he says; most often he either plays his music on the piano or writes it on music paper. He enjoys accompanying the children's choir at church. In his spare time Evan improvises at the piano, juggles, and invents board games. He likes doing Taekwondo with his friends. Evan triumphed at the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee after two years of intensely studying the dictionary. Even now he glances over the 2000-page tome looking for typographical errors. What Evan enjoys most is solving and making up math problems. For the past year he has created problems used in monthly contests at the Berkeley Math Circle. | |||
| Colin Sandon | 12 | Essex High School | Essex Junction | VT |
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Colin is a National Merit Finalist, a Siemens AP scholar, a 2007 ARML individual high scorer and a 2007 US Physics Team semi-finalist. His Vermont State math achievements include three-time MATHCOUNTS winner, individual winner of the Vermont Math League competition, two-time UVM competitive math exam winner (finished in top ten for eight years). Colin led his team to an undefeated 2008 season in the Vermont Math League and was a member of the 2007 Vermont State champion chess team. He enjoys computer programming, playing chess and go, and reading fantasy and science fiction. He will be attending MIT in the fall. | |||
| Krishanu Sankar | 12 | Horace Mann High School | Hastings On Hudson | NY |
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Krishanu will be attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall. He has just graduated from the Horace Mann School in New York City. A USAMO winner in 2007, he was also invited to attend the Physics Olympiad camp. He thanks his parents and brother for their encouragement as well as his math teacher, Christopher Jones, who was a great mentor and friend. Krishanu has been studying violin for seven years, is a brown belt in karate, and enjoys playing frisbee and video games. | |||
| Alex Zhai | 12 | University Laboratory HS | Urbana | IL |
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Alex has graduated from the University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois and will be attending Harvard this fall. He was a USAMO winner in 2006 and 2007, and also an IMO team member, earning a gold medal last year in Vietnam, and a silver medalist at the 2006 IMO in Slovenia. Alex received the National Latin Exam gold award during all four years of high school. In his free time, he plays chess and soccer, loves to read, and “learning unusual skills of limited utility” He thanks his 6th grade teacher, Mr. Hallas, who introduced him to competitions through MathCounts. |
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