Wheatley Students Succeed at Long Island Mathematics Fair!

On Friday afternoon, 17 Wheatley students headed to Hofstra University in order to compete in the annual Mathematics Fair. Students competing included:

Grade 9

• Manav Bansal (“Taylor, Power and Geometric Series”)
• Anya Chabria (“Fractal Geometry: The Mathematics Uniting the Universe”)
• Sarah Hassan (“The Biostatistics and Epidemiology Involved in Determining Disease Patterns”)
• Viraj Jayam (“Projecting Onto the Generalized n-Sphere via Stereographic Projections”)
• Eric Ness (“System of Numerations through History”)

Grade 10

• Madison Ramos (“The Mathematics Behind Magic”)
• Diya Shah (“Boolean Algebra”)
• Rebecca Sparacio (“Determining the Association between Extracurricular Activity Participation and Performance on the SAT and ACT; An Observational Study”)
• Trenton Wong (“Approximating Pi”)
• Emily Yagoda (“The Math Behind Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies”)
• Sharon Zhong (“Finding the Figure for Foundational Failure”)

Grade 11

• Manan Shukla (“The Banach-Tarski paradox”)
• Vedant Singh (“Using Optimization to Increase Production Efficiency”)

Grade 12

• Sufia Ainechi (“The Tipping Point of Buildings”)
• Michaela Balboni (“The Fractal Component of Fibonacci’s Spiral and the Balboni Spiral”)
• Abhishek Kumar (“Performance of a Parallelized Restricted Boltzman Machine”)
• Justin Vega (“Using Mathematical Modeling to Calculate Neutron Cross-Sections Probability Distributions for Reactions on Zero-Spin Nuclei”)

While the aforementioned students were presenting their research, Maryrose Ambrose and Robert Teseo served as judges.

At the end of the competition, 9 Wheatley students earned Gold Medals, 3 Wheatley students earned Silver Medals and 5 Wheatley students earned Bronze Medals. Congratulations to the following medal winners:

Gold Medal Winners

• Sufia Ainechi
• Manav Bansal
• Sarah Hassan
• Viraj Jayam
• Manan Shukla
• Sharon Zhong

Silver Medal Winners

• Michaela Balboni
• Anya Chabria
• Madison Ramos
• Justin Vega

Bronze Medal Winners

• Abhishek Kumar
• Eric Ness
• Diya Shah
• Vedant Singh
• Rebecca Sparacio

Thanks to Mr. Teseo, we have some photos from the competition!