A* organized a free special camp in Bay Area on May 11-12 to warm-up A* USACO finalists for the USACO National Camp. In this condensed two-day camp, students had four former International Olympiads in Informatics exams. USACO Finalists will participate in the USACO National Camp between May 23 and June 1 at Clemson University in South Carolina. As A* Team, we wish success to our students, Steven Hao, Andrew He, Lawrence Li, Alex Pei, Brian Shimanuki and Tony Wang in the USACO National Camp.

2013 USAMO/USAJMO awards are announced. 48 students received Winners and Honorable Mention awards. Among them are 5 A* students:

• Andrew He, USAMO Winner
• Sean Shi, USAJMO Winner
• Lewis Chen, USAMO Honorable Mention
• David Yang, USAMO Honorable Mention
• Richard Yi, USAJMO Honorable Mention

Congratulations! For a complete list, please visit http://amc.maa.org/

2013 MathCounts National Competition was held on May 10th. Alec Sun from Massachusetts became the MathCounts champion and Massachusetts won the team competition. National champion Alec Sun and first runner-up Ashwin Sah are also selected to represent USA at this year’s Junior Balkan Math Olympiad (JBMO). A* student David Zhu qualified for the countdown round quarter finals. For more information, please visit http://mathcounts.org/

The following 6 students will represent United States in Junior Balkan Math Olympiad (JBMO) 2013:

• Alec Sun - MA
• Ankan Bhattacharya - MI
• Ashwin Sah - OR
• James Lin - MA
• Mihir Singhal - CA
• Swapnil Garg - CA

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