The seventeenth American Mathematics Contest AMC 8 was held November 19, 2002, and Michigan again was near the top of the nation in school participation and student participation with 10,460 students from 154 schools taking the exam. A total of 562 Michigan students earned scores of 18 or higher and were cited as 2002 Michigan AMC 8 Honor Roll Students (those with scores of 19 or higher have additional USA Honor Roll standing), and a total of 459 students in grades six and below earned scores of 10 or higher to become 2002 Michigan AMC 8 Merit Roll Students (those with scores of 13 or higher also have USA Merit Roll standing).
This year, three Michigan students, including a sixth grader, achieved perfect scores of 25 on the AMC 8: Alan Huang, from Detroit Country Day Middle School in Beverly Hills, Alan Pezeshki, from the Indus Center for Academic Excellence in Troy, and Kunal Patel, from Smith Middle School, also in Troy.
The Edith May Sliffe Award recognizes the excellence of exam managers whose students are most successful on the AMC 8. This year’s Michigan recipients of the award were Kishore Ahuja, from the Indus Center for Academic Excellence, and Diane N. Lenderman, from Smith Middle School.
Three Michigan college students were honored by the Section for their outstanding performances on the 2002 William Lowell Putnam Examination. They were Vivek V. Shende (H, ranks 26–61), a UM-Ann Arbor junior from Beverly Hills; Brian L. Schroeder (I, ranks 71.5–99), an MSU senior from Okemos; and Joel R. Lauwsma (II, ranks 104–210), a junior attending UM-Ann Arbor, from Holland.
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