The American Mathematics Competitions are sponsored by the MAA and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The AMC 8 Exam, given to students in grade 8 and below, is a 25-question, 40-minute multiple-choice contest with no penalty for guessing. A student’s score is the number of problems correctly solved. The 2005 AMC 8 Exam was taken by 6310 students from 80 schools in Michigan on November 14, 2006. The overall Michigan average score was 9.34.

Perfect scores were achieved by eight Michigan students, all eighth graders. They were Disha Bora, Mason Liang, and Perry Zong, all from Boulan Park Middle School in Troy; Raghav Subramaniam, from Boyd Larson Middle School in Troy; Lajari Anne and Allen Yuan, from Detroit County Day Middle School in Beverly Hills; Randy Jia, from ICAE in Troy; and Sai Namuduri, from Smith Middle School in Troy.

The Edyth May Sliffe Award recognizes the excellence of 50 exam managers whose students are most successful on the AMC 8. The 2006 recipients of the award in Michigan were Frank Sikorski, Smith Middle School in Troy, Jan Janigian, Hillside Middle School in Northville, and Margaret Hom, Boulan Park Middle School in Troy.

Special thanks are due to Raghunath Khetan of ICAE for his generous support of AMC10/12A. AMC 10/12A of 2007 was scheduled on February 6. Unfortunately, most high schools in southeast Michigan were closed for cold weather that day. After receiving phone calls and emails from students and their parents, I contacted the AMC national director, Professor Steven Dunbar, the evening before the contest. With Steven’s instruction, I contacted Raghunath for help, and he agreed without hesitation. On contest day, Raghunath drove back from Saginaw to handle the agitated crowd of parents and students. Everything went smoothly and everyone was satisfied. Because all public schools were closed on February 21, the AMC 10/12B date, many students would not have had the opportunity to take any AMC 10/12 this year without the support of Raghunath. Further, due to the structure of AMC competitions, one cannot move into higher-level competitions (AIME, USAMO) without qualifications through AMC10/12. Without Raghunath’s dedication, Michigan would have suffered a dramatic drop in AIME and USAMO participants this year.

Ada Dong, Oakland University

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