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Daniel Mai Is the 2019 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Champion www.mathcounts.org Vol. 39 Issue 2 Daniel Mai is the 2019 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Champion Daniel Mai was set up for a nail-biting final match-up. He had traveled from his home- town of Acton, Mass. to Orlando, Fla. for his second appearance at the Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition. He had just emerged victorious from a notoriously long 11-minute semifinals match—one where neither he nor semifi- nalist Sam Wang from Virginia buzzed in with a correct answer for six questions in a row. He was up against Suyash Pandit, the underdog from Oregon who had won the first match of the day, plus his quarter- final and semifinal match-ups to qualify for the finals. Yet after his tough semifinals match, Dan- iel clearly found his groove during the final round, sweeping the board as he Above: From left: Runner-up Suyash Pandit, National Champion Daniel Mai answered the first three questions of the and Tracey Gray (Vice President, Communications & Public Affairs, Space & finals correctly. He cemented his victory Airborne Systems, Raytheon Company). when he successfully solved the last prob- Below: Actor, author and audiobook narrator Wil Wheaton hosts the lem of the 2019 MATHCOUNTS Compe- Countdown Round for the second year in a row. tition Series: What is the quotient of 5040 divided by the product of its unique prime factors? Level-headed on stage, 13-year-old Dan- iel knew the answer was 24—and it only took him 22.53 seconds to figure it out. Massachusetts coach Josh Frost de- scribes Daniel as humble and hardwork- ing, and it shows in his response to his success. How did he feel after the big win? “Very tired,” Daniel said. After such an action-packed weekend, his response was understandable. The 2019 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS Na- tional Competition began with three rounds of written tests on Sunday, May 12, requiring students to work both in- dividually and collaboratively in their four-person state teams. On Monday, May 13, the 12 students with the highest scores on the Written Competition advanced to the Countdown Round, hosted for the second year by actor, author and audiobook narrator Wil Wheaton. This final round challenged students in fast-paced one-on-one match-ups in which competitors had at most 45 seconds to answer each question. Rankings for the Countdown Round also were determined by the students’ scores on the Written Competition. Daniel was one of four individuals with the highest written scores who received a bye in the first match of the Countdown Round, along with Written Competition Champion Jeff Lin, an eighth grader from Lexington, Mass.; eighth grader William Chen from Fremont, Calif., and seventh grader Jessica Wan from San Juan, P.R. The two Countdown Round Semifinalists were Sam Wang and Ethan Zhou, both eighth graders from Virginia. The 12 Countdown Round participants. Back row from left: Rich Wang, Suyash Pandit, Eric Shen, Alan Kappler, Ram Goel and Karthik Vedula. Front row from left: Sam Wang, Ethan Zhou, Jessica Wan, William Chen, Daniel Mai and Jeff Lin. Daniel was one of 224 Mathletes from across the country who competed at the 2019 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS Na- tional Competition on May 12–13 at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista at the Walt Disney World Resort. National competitors represented all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Department of Defense and State Department. As the National Champion, Daniel received the $20,000 Donald G. Weinert Scholarship and will appear on “Live! With Kelly & Ryan” on June 7, where he will compete against hosts Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest in a math compe- tition. After that? Daniel has some ideas. His dream is “to find the cure for cancer. I want to do this to better society so that we can live longer and this way, society would have new innovations and progress faster.” With Daniel’s prob- lem-solving skills and ambition, winning the MATHCOUNTS Competition Series is just the beginning. Runner-up Suyash Pandit concedes to National Champion Daniel Mai. Massachusetts wins Team Competition 2019 NATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS The team from Massachusetts, led by coach Josh Frost, won First Place in the Written Competition. This was the first time that the Mas- NATIONAL CHAMPION: sachusetts team had won the Competition Series since 2013. Team Daniel Mai, MA members Kaylee Ji from Andover, Jeff Lin from Lexington, Daniel Mai • $20,000 Donald G. Weinert from Acton and Max Xu from Westford—all eighth graders—each won a $2,000 scholarship and a trip to U.S. Space Camp. Scholarship • Trip to U.S. Space Camp COUNTDOWN ROUND RUNNER-UP: Suyash Pandit, OR • $7,500 Scholarship COUNTDOWN ROUND SEMIFINALISTS: Sam Wang, VA Ethan Zhou, VA • $3,000 Scholarship each WRITTEN COMPETITION CHAMPION: Jeff Lin, MA • $2,500 Scholarship 1ST PLACE TEAM: From left: Tracey Gray (Vice President, Communications & Public Massachusetts Affairs, Space & Airborne Systems, Raytheon Company), Max Xu, Kaylee Ji, Jeff Lin, Daniel Mai, Jeff Lin, Kaylee Ji, Coach Josh Frost, John Daegele (Chair, MATHCOUNTS Board of Directors). Daniel Mai, Max Xu • $2,000 Scholarship each The Florida team, led by coach Pushpa Kurian, won Second Place. • Trip to U.S. Space Camp The team members were Wesley Chen, an eighth grader from Talla- hassee; Aaron Hu, a seventh grader from Tallahassee; Razzi Masroor, WRITTEN COMPETITION a seventh grader from Miami and Karthik Vedula, an eighth grader RUNNER-UP: Daniel Mai, MA from Tallahassee. The team from California, coached by Peta-Gaye Robinson, won Third Place. The team members—all in eighth grade— COUNTDOWN ROUND were William Chen from Fremont, Alan Lee from Palo Alto, Eric Shen QUARTER-FINALISTS: from San Jose and Andrew Wen from Fremont. William Chen, CA Jeff Lin, MA Jessica Wan, PR MATHCOUNTS Congratulates the 2019 Rich Wang, TX National Competitors COUNTDOWN ROUND MATHCOUNTS congratulates all 224 national competitors. Advanc- PARTICIPANTS: ing to the national level is an outstanding accomplishment, and ev- Ram Goel, OR ery Mathlete who participated this year should be incredibly proud of Alan Kappler, OR his or her achievements. Links to competition results, photographs Eric Shen, CA and the archived ESPN webcast are available at the MATHCOUNTS Karthik Vedula, FL website. All national competitors are listed below, with the following 2ND PLACE TEAM: Florida special recognitions. Two-Time National Competitor** 3RD PLACE TEAM: California Three-Time National Competitor*** ALABAMA DIST. OF COLUMBIA KANSAS MICHIGAN Sid Doppalapudi*** Robert Foster David Han Vikram Goddla** Carol Li Sherlock Grigsby II Naveen Kannan** Henry Jiang Justin Pan*** Jonathan Nixon Rebecca Xue Michael Lu Daniel Zhao Matthew Weitzner Nathan Zhang Jason Zhang** ALASKA FLORIDA KENTUCKY MINNESOTA Camden Armstrong** Wesley Chen Krishna Bhatraju Linden Li** EJ Bailey Aaron Hu Shaurya Jadhav Aurora Wang Alex Loomis** Razzi Masroor Luke Mo** Andrew Zhang Sean Raften Karthik Vedula** Joseph Vulakh Henry Zheng ARIZONA GEORGIA Yoobin Cha Ethan Gao Marcus Giorza** Richard Yu** Spirit Shaan Keole Kevin Yuan Sai Konkimalla** Andy Zhang ARKANSAS GUAM Ellie Feng Kevin Choi** Aaron Liu** Elizabeth Mamczarz Soren Schmidt** Jake Tae Dinesh Vasireddy Kangsan Yoon** CALIFORNIA HAWAII William Chen** Allison Eto Alan Lee Adam Inamasu Eric Shen Zachary Tyrrell From left: Luke, Joseph, Shaurya (at back) and Krishna find Andrew Wen Felicity Zhou** out they’ve won the Spirit Award. COLORADO IDAHO LOUISIANA MISSISSIPPI Srinivas Arun Jieming Mei Ryan Ding Dhanush Kondabathini Jackson Dryg Srikar Surapaneni Ethan Guo** Leo Mei Rishi Rai Zihongbo Wang** Julian Vertigan** Kenny Suzuki*** Ari Wang Kevin Xu Alex Wu Landon Tu CONNECTICUT ILLINOIS MAINE MISSOURI Mingwen Duan** Jeffrey Chen Albert Bai Yuvan Chali Adeethyia Shankar Nathan Ma Eamon Flint McGlashan Alex Chen Alan Wang Nate Maydanchik Karl Hokkanen Wilson Gao Ryan Yang*** Krishna Pothapragada Noah Manning Nicole Li** DELAWARE INDIANA MARYLAND MONTANA Perryn Chang Ray Li Joshua Hsieh Cadien Archer Anand John Minnie Liang David Li Yuan Du Mia Lu Grace Yang Nathan Shan** Edward Guthrie*** Jonathan Pei Harry Zheng Andrew Yuan Jonas Zeiler DEPT. OF DEFENSE IOWA MASSACHUSETTS NEBRASKA Mason Parker** SangHyuk Im** Kaylee Ji Nixon Hanna Faisal Ramzi Al Sewaidi** Anish Lodh Jeff Lin** Jason Jiang Seth Robles Ashley Seo Daniel Mai** Cole Welstead Brian Song Joe Su Max Xu** Kaleb Whitmore NEVADA OHIO SOUTH DAKOTA VIRGIN ISLANDS Frank Abbeduto** Riddhi Gupta Vanessa An Aisha Khemani Christopher Bao Eddie Kong Sampada Nepal Julien Loewenstein** Megan Davi Tanishq Pauskar Gianna Stangeland Ariel Paul Audrey Lim Michael Zuo Megan Zhu Ronit Totwani** NEW HAMPSHIRE OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT VIRGINIA Deetya Nagri Raymond Jiang** Jaeha Hwang Aiden Feyerherm Roxane Park Timothy Stroup Avi Kabra Alan Vladimiroff Garima Rastogi Daniel Wang Owen Lalis** Sam Wang** Anshul Rastogi*** Nathan Willcox Josh Shin Ethan Zhou*** NEW JERSEY OREGON TENNESSEE WASHINGTON Kishan Bava Ram Goel Bryan Ding Joy An*** Locke Cai Alan Kappler** George Hu Wilson Liu** George Cao Suyash Pandit** Henry Pitt Albert Weng Bryan Zhang Nividh Singh Alex Wang** Gene Yang** TEXAS WEST VIRGINIA Amy Chang Amy Lu** Aaron Guo Austin Luo Ray Tang Lauren Shen** Rich Wang Grace Yan UTAH WISCONSIN Most Improved Zachary Klein Alexis Hu Marianne Liu Kartik Ramachandrula Kiran Reddy Jake Rottier From left: George Hu, Henry Pitt, Bryan Ding and Brian Wei Kevin Song Coach Maggie Qian. 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