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LHWHS Senior Schindler Places Third in U.S. Math Competition

Schindler Max

Schindler One of Four to Represent U.S. Team
At International Competition in England

Max Schindler, a senior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, placed third, out of all students in the United States, in the North American Computational Linguistics grueling five-hour qualification test.  Schindler and the other three members of the U.S. team will head to Manchester, England in July 2013 for the international competition.  Schindler is the first student from Ladue Horton Watkins High School to earn a position on the U.S. team for any International Olympiad since 2006.

LHWHS Second in U.S. in Online Math Competition

Math Madness

Ladue Horton Watkins High School (LHWHS) recently placed second in a national pilot test of the Interstellar online math competition associated with American Mathematic Competitions (AMC).   LHWHS’ team was comprised of Yang Liu (sophomore), Max Schindler (senior), and Victor Wang (senior.)

Read the full story as it appeared in USA Today on March 24, 2013…

LMS Math Team Excels at Regional Mathcounts Competition

The Ladue Middle School (LMS) Math team participated in the Mathcounts Regional Competition on February 16, 2013.  The following students represented LMS: Ben Phung, Justin Chen, Albert Lui, Alex Tan, Hans Chan, Seema Patil, Barath Palanisamy, Patrick Hwang, and Kevin Jiang.

LMS Students Qualify for State MathCounts Competition

On Saturday February 18, 2012, Ladue Middle School took 10 Mathletes and one Alternate, in the 6th-8th grades, to the Regional MathCounts Competition held at Florissant Valley Community College. LMS participants were: Spencer Chen, Hans Chan, Jeffrey Wang, Alex Tan, Justin Chen, Stephanie Zhong, Olivia Long, Tom Liu, Albert Liu, Patrick Hwang, and Barath Palanisamy (Alt). Over 130 participants from schools all over the St. Louis region participated in the competition. 

LHWHS Junior Wang Wins the Gold in Math

Wang Victor

Ladue Horton Watkins High School Junior Victor Wang, representing the U.S.A. Team at the Romanian Master of Mathematics competition in Bucharest, won an individual gold award on March 3, 2012.  The U.S.A. team finished fourth with Wang’s score being a significant contributor.