The Seventh Annual High School Mathematics Tournament at the University of Iowa was held on Saturday, March 8, 2003 from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. By all counts, it was a great success. The tournament received generous support from a variety of units and individuals; without this support, the event would not have been possible. I therefore want to begin by thanking those who contributed to its success: The College of Engineering; the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics and Actuarial Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the office of the Provost. I particularly want to thank Dean Gary Fethke and Professor Carol Fethke, and Mrs. Catharine Wegner, a 1934 Mathematics Alumna and long-time teacher of Mathematics, who helped endow the tournament.

This year’s competition brought together roughly 197 students from the following schools:

Ames High School

Cedar Falls High School

Central High School, Elkader

City High School, Iowa City

Columbus High School

Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne High School

Davenport High School

Decorah High School

Dubuque Senior High School

Home Schools

Iowa Falls High School

Iowa Mennonite High School

Jefferson High School

Linn-Mar Community School

Marshalltown High School

Mid-Prairie High School

Muscatine High School

Regina High School, Iowa City

Southeast Polk High School

Tipton High School

Vinton-Shellsburg High School

Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School

West High School, Iowa City

West Liberty High School

The students participated in a total of four "events". In two of these events (the "Sprint Round" and the "Target Round"), students answered mathematics test questions on individual tests. In the remaining two events (the "Team Round" and the "Relay Round") students worked in teams. Professors Oguz Durumeric, Paul Muhly, George Nelson, Walter Seaman, and Tuong Ton-That and University of Iowa student volunteers proctored the events. While the students were writing their exams, a team of Mathematics teachers from the participating schools graded the completed exams. Matt Johnson, an undergraduate in Computer Science, and Cindy Van Ark, a secretary in Mathematics, entered the results into an Access database.

At the awards ceremony, Professor Willard "Sandy" Boyd, past President and recent Interim President at the University of Iowa, congratulated the participants and gave a talk in which he encouraged students to think about good citizenship. He also praised the teachers who helped the students to participate in this, and similar events. Below is a summary of the results of the tournament.

SPRINT ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 120):

Grade 9 (large school) Joshua Moloney, Ames High School, Score: 101

Grade 9 (small school) Zeb Fisher, Vinton-Shellsburg High School, Score: 68

Grade 10 (large school) Kevin Plattner, Iowa City High School, Score: 103

Grade 10 (small school) Philipp Gaebler, Home Schools, Score: 83

Grade 11 (large school) Zeb Rocklin, Iowa City High School, Score: 101

Grade 11 (small school) Charles Fisher, Vinton-Shellsburg High School, Score: 83

Grade 12 (large school) John Hegeman, Iowa City West High School, Score: 115

Grade 12 (small school) Ryan McBride, Tipton High School, Score: 84

TEAM ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 100):

Junior Varsity (large school) Ames High School, Team 01 and West High School,

Team 01, Score: 50

Junior Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Team 01, Score: 40

Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Team 01, Score: 80

Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Team 01, Score 70

TARGET ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 80):

Grade 9 (large school) Nick Brady, City High School and Joshua Moloney, Ames High School, Score: 60

Grade 9 (small school) Taylor Sutton, Waverly-Shell Rock HS and Matthew Wheeler, Home Schools, Score: 40

Grade 10 (large school) Drew Klein, Iowa City West High School, Score: 70

Grade 10 (small school) Philipp Gaebler, Home Schools and David Rumsey, Iowa Mennonite School, Score: 50

Grade 11 (large school) Yoomin Lim, Iowa City West High School, Score: 70

Grade 11 (small school) Tony Ball, West Liberty High School and Evelyn Talmage, Home Schools, Score: 50

Grade 12 (large school) John Hegeman, Iowa City West High School, Score: 80

Grade 12 (small school) Karl Broer, Iowa Falls High School; Lauren Ross, Iowa City Regina and Mary Beth Tull, Columbus High School, Score: 50

RELAY ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 100):

Junior Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School - Team 01, Score: 25

Junior Varsity (small school) Central High School, Teams 01, 02 and Waverly – Shell Rock HS, Teams 01, 02, Score: 10

Varsity (large school) Decorah High School, Team 01 and Linn-Mar High School, Team 01, Score: 20

Varsity (small school) Columbus High School, Teams 01, 02; Home Schools, Team 01; Iowa Falls High School, Team 01; Tipton High School, Team 01 and West Liberty High School, Team 01, Score: 10

WINNING SCHOOLS-TOTALS OF SCORES (maximum = 400 for large schools and

small schools)

Junior Varsity (large school) Ames High School, Score: 193.50

Junior Varsity (small school) Central High School, Score: 126.67

Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Score: 266.34

Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Score: 212.67

At the awards ceremony, Professor Paul Muhly also announced that the twelfth grade winners in the Sprint Round (John Hegeman, Iowa City West High School and Ryan McBride, Tipton High School) and in the Target Round (John Hegeman, Iowa City West High School; Karl Broer, Iowa Falls High School; Lauren Ross, Iowa City Regina and Mary Beth Tull, Columbus High School) would each receive a prize of $100 from the endowment started by the Fethkes and Mrs.Wegner. Thanks to everyone who shared in the work of making this tournament run efficiently, and thanks most of all to the students who showed real initiative and determination in working on almost three and one half hours worth of challenging Mathematics problems on a beautiful Saturday morning.

Organizing Committee

Department of Mathematics

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52242