2023 RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES MATHCOUNTS NATIONAL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
Channing Yang, a 13-year-old seventh grader from Sugar Land, Texas, won the Countdown Round by answering this question in 7 seconds: “Erika cuts one pound of fudge into pieces to share with her friends. She divides the fudge into seven small pieces and three large pieces. If each large piece is three times as large as each small piece, how many pounds does one of the large pieces weigh?”
Countdown Round Runner-Up
Oron Wang (NJ)
$7,500 Scholarship
Countdown Round Semifinalists
Edward Chen (IN)
Ashvin Sinha (FL)
$3,000 scholarships each
Written Competition Champion
Oron Wang (NJ)
$2,500 Scholarship
Countdown Round Quarterfinalists
- Varun Gadi (GA)
- Selena Ge (MA)
- Seabert Mao (CA)
- Liam Reddy (NV)
Countdown Round Participants
- Adam Ge (MA)
- Jason Lee (NC)
- Alex Sun (TX)
- Roger Zhen (TX)
Written Competition Runner-Up
Ashvin Sinha (FL)
Congratulations to Kevin Chen, Alex Sun, Channing Yang, Roger Zhen and coach Andrea Smith for earning the highest score in the Written Competition! Each student earned a $2,000 scholarship.
Second Place
Florida
- Eric Gao
- Roger He
- Ben Jiang
- Ashvin Sinha
- Coach: Pushpa Kurian
Third Place
Massachusetts
- Nikhil Byrapuram
- Christopher Cheng
- Adam Ge
- Selena Ge
- Coach: Josh Frost
Team members Jason Adeyemi, Dylan Andrews, AJ Mays and Adrienne Prater each won a $1,000 scholarship for their creative video about specially gifted students who solve a mystery when their classmates start going missing. The team, as well as their coach Junior Bernadin, are from Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, GA.
Congratulations to our 2023 Grand Prize Winners from the National Math Club—Normon S. Weir School in Paterson, NJ! This club was randomly selected from all the Gold Level Clubs to receive $300 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the National Competition. Clubs in the program reach Gold Level Status by completing a collaborative project, and Normon S. Weir School chose to conduct a data exploration.
The Countdown Round took place at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista at 10am ET on Monday, May 15. The top 12 scorers from the Written Competition raced against the clock and each other to determine the 2023 Raytheon Technologies MATHCOUNTS National Champion.
These star Mathletes will be the problem solvers, innovators and creative thinkers who take on the great global challenges of tomorrow...please join us in inspiring even more awesome students with a donation!
