KINGSTON, R.I. – May 1, 2017 – Barrington High School has become accustomed to winning the University of Rhode Island’s Calc-Bowl, having captured first place in the previous two years of the math quiz competition. Now it can add a third plaque to its trophy case after this year’s victory.

 

 

The first-place winners from Barrington High School are Michael Lamontagne, Conor McGartoll, Andrew Sheinberg, Jonny Zhang and Daniel Sheinberg.

 

 

 

Lincoln High School was second in the contest with team members Matt Mardo, Mike Matkowski, Ross Lancaster, Drew Abram and Matt Salemi competing for the team.

 

 

 

Third place ended in a tie between Cranston East High School and Barrington High School’s second team. Cranston East’s team members were Noah Gibb, Joe Murphy, Sean Su and Sean Curry. Eliot Laidlaw, Ingrid Kenyon, Michael Chung, Wanqing Li and Ryan Brady were on Barrington’s second team.

 

The event was organized and hosted by the URI Department of Mathematics and Mathematics Professor Li Wu. The high school students answered questions and solved problems at the pre-calculus and levels and competed for more than $1,000 in prizes. The URI Office of the Provost offered a $500 URI scholarship to each member of the winning team.

 

Wu organizes the competition every year with Mathematics Department colleagues, Professor and Department Chair James Baglama, and Associate Professors Tom Bella and Lubos Thoma, and Assistant Professor Vasilije Perovic. The event was sponsored by Belmont Fruit Market, Pi Mu Epsilon, a national mathematics honor society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, URI Department of Mathematics and Wiley, a global company provides content enabled solutions to improve outcomes in research, education and professional practice.

Sarah Saltiel-Ragot, an international student from Sciences Po Rennes in France and an intern in URI’s Department of Marketing and Communications, wrote this press release.