11th Annual ECC Undergraduate Mathematics Competition

11TH ANNUAL ECC UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
The 11th Annual East Central Colleges Undergraduate Mathematics Competition was
held on Saturday, April 5, 2008, at Muskingum College in New Concord, OH.
Dr. Pamela Richardson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, acted as faculty advisor to
the Westminster College student participants and accompanied the following teams to the
event:
• Team Converge: Aaron Zavora, Rachael Hayden, Megan Sherry
• Team Dense: Larissa Fortna, Lauren Graeser, April Scudere, Stephen Wheeler
• Team Ideal: Amanda Gentzel, Anthony Colwell, Ryan Brolley
• Team Kernel: James Bryan, Andrew Polack, Stephen Rossi
The competition consisted of students taking a three-hour exam in teams of
three or four, working as a group. The exam was written and graded by a
mathematician at Concordia College of Minnesota specifically for this
contest, and consisted of 10 problems, ranging from a problem or two that
nearly everyone should have been able to solve, to a couple which were of
Putnam level and were likely to separate out the most exceptional students.
Team Converge
Aaron Zavora, Megan Sherry, and Rachael Hayden
Team Ideal
Amanda Gentzel, Anthony Colwell, and Ryan Brolley
Team Dense
Larissa Fortna, Stephen Wheeler,
Lauren Graeser, and April Scudere
Team Kernel
Stephen Rossi, Andrew Polack, and James Bryan

ECC Participants
Row 1: Rachael Hayden, Megan Sherry, Lauren Graeser
Row 2: Andrew Polack, Aaron Zavora, Larissa Fortna, April Scudere, and Stephen Wheeler
Row 3: Anthony Colwell, Ryan Brolley, Stephen Rossi, James Bryan, and Amanda Gentzel
(L to R): Andrew Polack, Anthony Colwell, Stephen
Rossi, and Amanda Gentzel
(L to R): James Bryan, Ryan Brolley, Larissa Fortna,
Stephen Wheeler, Andrew Polack, and Amanda Gentzel