On May 1, the Newton South HS and Newton North HS Math Teams placed third and fourth, respectively, among all large high schools in the New England Association of Mathematics Leagues Annual Tournament, behind Acton-Boxborough and Lexington.   Teams were invited to this regional championship based on their performance in state competitions (in which Newton South HS tied for second).  Ethan Xu was recognized for his perfect individual-round score of 18, while Bahvik Nagda and Captain Jason Ma were recognized for their scores of 17 and 15, respectively.  Other team members participating were Captain Jae Seung Lee, Andrew Shaughnessy, Zhe Wu, Evan Zeng, and James Rao.

Newton South HS Math Team

The Newton North Team included four seniors — Captains Anna Ellison and Kavish Gandhi, Julia Feinstein, and Bill Shen — who were part of the team that won the same NEAML meet in 2012, when these students were freshmen. This year, Kavish Gandhi was recognized for earning a perfect 18 on his individual rounds, and Julia Feinstein was recognized for her score of 14. Other members of the team were sophomores Christina Cong and Daniel Kleber and freshmen Alex Park and Tony Sun. The Newton North team is unusual among the top teams in the NEAML for having three or four girls on its team each time it competed in the last five years. The exceptional composition of this team was recognized in the Math Prize for Girls blog.