RMS Mathletes Crush 2017 Marmion Junior High Math Contest
Approximately 200 students from 40 public and private schools in Illinois participated in this year’s Marmion Junior High Math Contest on Nov. 18, 2017. RMS had two teams of five students—and every student placed!
Contest Breakdown
Individual Competition Winners
- Sameer Komoravolu
- Steve Lin
- Avanthi Obadage
Team Competition: First place – RMS Team 1
- Sameer Komoravolu
- Grant Lerette-Kauffman
- Steve Lin
- Sanjay Dave
- Nick Virelli
Team Competition: Third place – RMS Team 2
- Avanthi Obadage
- Adhish Rajan
- Mayank Aggarwal
- Kevin Huang
- Andy Despe
To make it to the Marmion Junior High Math Contest, RMS students in the “Mathletes Club” competed in a “Math Off” competition during practice. Mathletes practice with their coach, Chris Ozarka, every Friday after school from October through May. Mr. Ozarka is a math and computer science teacher at Batavia High School.
The Marmion contest is divided into two rounds and topics ranged from Pre-Algebra through Geometry. The first round is an individual competition where each student completes a 20-question written test on his or her own. The second round is a team competition where groups of five students work together on a different 20-question test.
Overall, Rotolo Middle School’s “Team 1” took second place in the contest while
“Team 2” came in fourth. This was a first in the history of the contest—one school having two teams place in the top five.
Way to go RMS Mathletes!
