Newton South HS sophomore Elena Baskakova has qualified for the USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad (USAJMO) — a 9-hour essay/proof examination offered to the top 250 students in the AMC10 competitions run by the Mathematical Association of America. Elena placed in the Honor Roll of Distinction (top 1%) in AMC10 and scored well in the invitation-only second round, the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), earlier this year. She is a member of the NSHS Math Team and a participant in MIT PRIMES Circle studying Probability Theory. She competes with Western Mass ARML teams in high school tournaments.  Her ARML Stars team placed 11th in the Girls in Math at Yale competition and placed in the top 30 in HMMT February.