User:PowerOfPi

PowerOfPi joined AoPS on April 30, 2009. He owns a blog named Math World which has a mixture of math and his thoughts.

PowerOfPi is a sophomore who started competition math with the 2008 AMC 8 (in seventh grade), and ever since enjoyed math. He also enjoys chess, soccer, science, and programming.

AoPS Forum

PowerOfPi has contributed to a few resources on the AoPS forum.

• Tip of the Week - a new concept for middle school competition math was discussed every week
• Problem of the Day - started and mostly maintained by isabella2296
• MMC - with a few other users, another mock MathCounts competition ranging from School to State level

Math Competitions

PowerOfPi has participated in MathCounts, the AMC series, USAMTS, Purple Comet, Math Kangaroo, ARML, and other local competitions. He has some overall goals as well as goals for specific competitions and years.

(The below is primarily used for personal purposes as a way to keep track of competitions.)

Goals

Overall

• Perfect AMC 8 - achieved
• Perfect AMC 10 - failed, realized it was unreasonable
• Perfect AMC 12 - realized to be unreasonable
• Qualify for USAJMO/USAMO - either 1/3 or 2/2 (1/0 so far)
• Qualify for Red MOP - achieved

Specific

• Math Kangaroo
  • 2012 - 120, first place 10th grader in nation

• Purple Comet
  • 2012 - 25/30

• AMC 10
  • 2012 - 135

• AMC 12
  • 2012 - 126
  • 2013 - 135
  • 2014 - 141

• AIME
  • 2012 - 8
  • 2013 - 9
  • 2014 - 10

• MOP
  • 2012 - Red/Green MOP
  • 2013 - Blue MOP or close to qualifying
  • 2014 - HM USAMO

• USAMTS
  • 2012-2013 - Silver

Achievements

[updated on: March 17, 2012]

• MathCounts
  • 2009 - 5th place individual in state (after a tiebreaker for 4th), first place team in state
  • 2010 - first place individual and team in chapter (45) and state (42, Countdown winner), 63rd place individual in nation (33)

• Math Kangaroo
  • 2008 - 97, 9th place 6th grader in Canada, 1st place 6th grader in Winnipeg
  • 2009 - 83, 11th place 7th grader in USA
  • 2010 - 108, 1st place 8th grader in state, 3rd place 8th grader in USA
  • 2010 - 106, 1st place 9th grader in state, 3rd place 9th grader in USA

• Purple Comet
  • 2009 - 6/15
  • 2010 - 16/20, Honorable Mention
  • 2011 - 21/30

• AMC 8
  • 2008 - 20, first place individual and team in state, honorable mention
  • 2009 - 25, first place individual and team in state, perfect score

• AMC 10
  • 2010 - 124.5 (A)
  • 2011 - 129 (A)
  • 2012 - 127.5 (A)

• AMC 12
  • 2010 - 81 (B)
  • 2011 - 111 (B)
  • 2012 - 99 (B)

• AIME
  • 2010 - 6 (I)
  • 2011 - 6 (II)
  • 2012 - 7 (I)

• USA(J)MO
  • 2011 - 31 on USAJMO, Winner

• COMC
  • 2010 - 65-67, qualified for CMOQR
  • 2011 - 61

• CMOQR
  • 2011 - 40-50, qualified for CMO

• CMO
  • 2011 - 15, Division III

• USAMTS
  • 2009-2010 - 59/100, Honorable Mention
  • 2010-2011 - 43/60, Bronze Medal
  • 2011-2012 - 61/75, ?

• ARML
  • 2010 - 4, second place on team

• Science Fairs
  • 2011 - first in NE ND region, Fourth Award in Mathematical Sciences
  • 2012 - first in NE ND region

• National Science Bowl
  • 2011 - qualified (2 wins, 1 tie, 4 losses at NSB)
  • 2012 - qualified

• Grand Forks Math Track Meet
  • 2009 - first place individual and team in 7th grade

• UND Math Track Meet
  • 2009 - first place individual in 7th grade and team in 7th/8th grade
  • 2010 - first place individual and team in 7th/8th grade
  • 2011 - first place individual and team in 9th/10th grade
  • 2012 - first place individual and team in 11th/12th grade

• Tri-College Math Contest
  • 2010 - first place individual in 6th-8th grade
  • 2011 - first place individual and team in 9th/10th grade
  • 2012 - first place individual in 11th/12th grade