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Rashkis students win math awards

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Staff

Rashkis Elementary School student Albert Kim received the George Lenchner Medallion from the Math Olympiads, a nonprofit public foundation devoted to engaging children in creative problem-solving activities.

Kim, a fifth-grade student, received the award for his perfect score on all Math Olympiad contests this year. He was one of only 46 children out of 90,000 elementary students around the world who participated in the Math Olympiads to receive this award.

Rashkis fifth-graders Kristina Choi, Nathaniel Lai, Jai So and Thomas Wang and fourth-grader Jopsy Bayog won silver award pins for scoring in the top 10 percent of all participants. Kim also won a trophy as the team’s high scorer. Wang won the team honorable mention trophy for earning the second-highest team score. Bayog won a trophy for being the top-scoring fourth-grader.

In addition, the Rashkis Math Olympiads team was named to the fifth-grade National Meritorious Achievement List for being in the top 20 percent of all fifth-grade Math Olympiad teams participating this year.

Fifth-grade team members include Chris Cai, Marc Chiurco, Catherine (Sohyeon) Cho, Kristina Choi, Albert Kim, Nathaniel Lai, Madison Lewis, Evan Moore, Hyun Park, Rabina Sawhney, Jai So, Austin Wang, Thomas Wang and Aidan Zimmermann. Fourth-grade team members include Christopher Balog, Brooke Bauman, Jopsy Bayog, Isabel Bravo, Louie Chiurco, Seoyoon Choi, Carter Collins, Abhishek Dasgupta, Kevin Huang, Paul James, Danny Kaminsky, Kayla Kern, Seong Hoon (Peter) Kim, Allison Lai, Hannah Marchuk, Veronica Munn, Kakeru Nagai, Hallie Orr, Dana Park, Linnea Van Manen, Charlotte Waechter and Kendra Zhong.

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