A total of 102 Michigan high school students, from 35 different schools, were honored for their achievement in the 50th Annual Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition at the Awards Day program held on Saturday, February 24 at Oakland University. This was the second year of the three-year term of director Eddie Cheng (Oakland U).

Daniel Frohardt (WSU) spoke on “Creative Counting”, and Hugh Montgomery (UM-Ann Arbor) lectured on “The Pleasures of Mathematics”.

The first-place Gold Award winner and Ford Motor Company Scholar was Alan Huang (Detroit Country Day). The second place Gold Award went to Yongwhan Lim (Ann Arbor Huron High School). The third-place Gold Award went to Neil Gurram (Detroit Country Day). Silver Award winners at the first level were: Allen Yuan (Detroit Country Day) and Sunil Agarwal (Troy High School); at the second level, Krithika Shanmugasundaram (Farmington High School) and Lee Gunderson (Ann Arbor Pioneer High School); at the third-level, Nicholas Fireman (Groves High School), Kevin Wu (Cranbrook Kingswood), and Wenxin Zhu (Canton High School). In addition 41 Bronze Awards were given, and 51 students received Honorable Mention.

The top 51 students received scholarships in amounts ranging from $250 to $2600. Thanks go to the corporate and other donors to the MMPC scholarship fund. The Honorable Mention winners received copies of the MAA publication From Erdős to Kiev, by Ross Honsberger. We would like to thank the MAA and the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics for their generous donations that covered a portion of the cost of these books.

Part I of the MMPC is a 40-question multiple choice test, which this year was administered on October 11. About 1000 participants from Part I were invited to take Part II on December 6.

The official Web site of the MMPC (www.math.oakland.edu/main/mmpc/index.html) contains information about the competition. Part I of the competition is given each Fall.

(Corrected version -- April 4, 2007)

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