Mar. 4, 2025 – NSML-5 & 2025-26 NSML Season Results

On Mar. 4, Stevenson traveled to Glenbrook South High School for the final conference meet of the year. At Meet 5, the Stevenson Sophomore team (perfect 75 points) and Junior team (57 points) both tied for first out of fifty-five teams on site! Overall, the Stevenson Math Team has the highest Meet 5 point total (258 out of 300 points), securing 2nd place for the 2025-26 NSML season with 1515 points!

The following students were recognized on Wednesday for their night-of performance on March 4:

Evgeniya Goryainova: 🥇 1st Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (25 points – Perfect Paper)
Eric Xiong: 🥇 1st Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (25 points – Perfect Paper)
Abhijyot Chadha: 🥇 1st Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (25 points – Perfect Paper)
Debarghya Das: 🥇 1st Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (25 points – Perfect Paper)
Amarjot Singh: 🥇 1st Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (25 points – Perfect Paper)
Angela Ho: 🥇 1st Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (25 points – Perfect Paper)

The following students and teams were recognized on Wednesday for their season-long performance:

Eric Xiong: 🥇 T-1st Place among Freshmen (119 points)

Amarjot Singh: 9th Place among Sophomores (107 points)

Eric Zhang: 🥉 T-3rd Place among Juniors (113 points)
Amritha Praveen: 6th Place among Juniors (108 points)
Dannan Li: T-7th Place among Juniors (107 points)
Jill Wang: 10th Place among Juniors (103 points)

Jonathan He: 🥉 T-3rd Place among Seniors (119 points)
Angela Ho: T-7th Place among Seniors (113 points)

Amber Dong: 6th Place for Oral Presenters (175 points)

Freshman Algebra I Team: 🥈 2nd Place (345 points)
Junior Algebra II Team: 🥇 1st Place (345 points)
Senior Precalculus Team: 🥇 1st Place (339 points)

Collectively, the Stevenson Math Team put together a great season, with a second-place finishing 66 points ahead of third-place Walter Payton HS. The Stevenson Math Team will take on the ICTM State Finals contest in April!

Feb. 28, 2026 – ICTM Regional Results

On February 28, Stevenson hosted the ICTM Regional Contest for Region 12. The Stevenson Junior and Junior-Senior 8-Person teams placed or tied for first across the entire state! The Stevenson team had a great day, with the following individuals/teams winning awards:

Evgeniya Goryainova: 🥇 1st Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Bowen Li: 🥇 1st Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Eric Xiong: 🥇 1st Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Lily-Claire Fan: 4th Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (38 points)
Roy Fang: 4th Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (38 points)
Claire Yu: 4th Place in Freshman Algebra I Contest (38 points)

Abhijyot Chadha: 🥇 1st Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Reuben Gonsalves: 🥈 2nd Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (34 points)
Debarghya Das: 🥉 3rd Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (32 points)
Adrian Gualdron: 4th Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (26 points)
Sheetansu Sahoo: 5th Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (24 points)
Alex Jiang: 6th Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (16 points)

Dannan Li: 🥇 1st Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Wenhan Li: 🥇 1st Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Eric Zhang: 🥇 1st Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Amritha Praveen: 4th Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (38 points)
Jill Wang: 5th Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (36 points)
Tony Zhou: 5th Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (36 points)

Jingyi Wu: 🥇 1st Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (36 points)
Richard Xu: 🥇 1st Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (36 points)
Andre Dreesen: 🥉 3rd Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (32 points)
Andrew Oakes: 🥉 3rd Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (32 points)
Tanav Ravella: 5th Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (30 points)
Kaden Jeon: 6th Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (26 points)

Freshman Algebra 1 Team: 🥇 1st Place (158 points)
Lily-Claire Fan, Roy Fang, Evgeniya Goryainova, Bowen Li, Eric Xiong, Claire Yu

Sophomore Geometry Team: 🥇 1st Place (132 points)
Abhijyot Chadha, Debarghya Das, Reuben Gonsalves, Adrian Gualdron, Alex Jiang, Sheetansu Sahoo

Junior Algebra 2 Team: 🥇 1st Place (158 points)
Dannan Li, Wenhan Li, Amritha Praveen, Jill Wang, Eric Zhang, Tony Zhou

Senior Precalculus Team: 🥇 1st Place (136 points)
Andre Dreesen, Kaden Jeon, Andrew Oakes, Tanav Ravella, Jingyi Wu, Richard Xu

Freshman-Sophomore 8-Person Team: 🥇 1st Place (95 points)
Abhijyot Chadha, Neil Chatterjee, Kevin Chen, Alex Jiang, Jessica Jiang, Jotin Samayamantri, Eric Xiong, Claire Yu,

Junior-Senior 8-Person Team: 🥇 1st Place (100 points – Perfect Paper)
Rishab Konada, Dannan Li, Wenhan Li, Amritha Praveen, Tanav Ravella, Hemanth Samayamantri, Jill Wang, Richard Xu

Calculator Team: 🥇 1st Place (95 points)
Andy Chang, Reuben Gonsalves, Bowen Li, Wenhan Li, Tanav Ravella, Sheetansu Sahoo, Richard Xu, Eric Zhang

Freshman-Sophomore 2-Person Team: 🥇 1st Place (70 points)
Debarghya Das, Eric Xiong

Junior-Senior 2-Person Team: 🥇 1st Place (46 points)
Amritha Praveen, Eric Zhang

Oral Presentation Team: 🥇 1st Place (38 points)
Amber Dong, Payton Kim

Overall, Stevenson accumulated 1028 points, which was third-best statewide overall in the 4AA Division. All Stevenson teams will move on to the State Contest at ISU in April!

Feb. 5, 2026 – NSML Meet 4 Results

On February 5, Stevenson traveled to Lake Forest High School for the fourth conference meet of the school year. The Stevenson senior team had a perfect night, earning 75 out of 75 points! The freshman, sophomore, and juniors teams also took first place at each grade level among on-site teams! Oral presenters Amber Dong (Jr) and Payton Kim (So) took second place with 47 points!

Evgeniya Goryainova (Fr), Wenhan Li (Jr), Amritha Praveen (Jr), Jonathan He (Sr), Angela Ho (Sr), and Tanav Ravella (Sr) all had perfect papers!

Stevenson earned 299 points out of a possible 350 and is currently in sole possession of second place in the conference standings, leading the third-place Walter Payton team by 25 points.

Dec. 4, 2025 – NSML Meet 3 Results

On December 4, Stevenson hosted the third conference meet of the school year. The Stevenson junior and senior teams had a perfect night, earning 75 out of 75 points! The freshman team took first place among on-site teams with 69 points, and the sophomore team tied for first with 57! Oral presenter Amber Dong (Jr) took second place with 38 points!

Andy Chang (Fr), Neil Chatterjee (Fr), Saharsh Kaparthi (Fr), Eric Xiong (Fr), Amarjot Singh (So), Dannan Li (Jr), Likhith Nimmanapalli (Jr), Andrew Oakes (Jr), Amritha Praveen (Jr), Jill Wang (Jr), Eric Zhang (Jr), Tony Zhou (Jr), Jonathan He (Sr), Angela Ho (Sr), Jingyi Wu (Sr), Richard Xu (Sr), and Lylian Zhu (Sr) all had perfect papers!

Stevenson earned 314 points out of a possible 350. Stevenson is tied for second place with Walter Payton in the conference standings, trailing Whitney Young.

Oct. 29, 2025 – NSML Meet 2 Results

On October 29, Stevenson traveled to Vernon Hills High School for the second conference meet of the school year. The Stevenson freshman and seniors teams had a perfect night, earning 75 out of 75 points! The sophomore and juniors teams still took first place among on-site teams, and oral presenter Amber Dong (Jr) tied for second place with 45 points!

Andy Chang (Fr), Eric Xiong (Fr), Claire Yu (Fr), Alex Zhang (Fr), Amarjot Singh (So), Amritha Praveen (Jr), Jill Wang (Jr), Eric Zhang (Jr), Jonathan He (Sr), Angela Ho (Sr), and Tanav Ravella (Sr) all had perfect papers!

Stevenson earned 323 points out of a possible 350, tied with Whitney Young for the best performance of the night across the conference. Stevenson remains in second place in the conference standings, still 7 points behind Whitney Young.

Sep. 25, 2025 – NSML Meet 1 Results

On September 25, Stevenson traveled to Walter Payton College Prep for the first conference meet of the school year. The Stevenson freshman, sophomore, and junior teams all had a perfect night, earning 75 out of 75 points! The senior team took second place among on-site teams, and oral presenter Amber Dong (Jr) tied for first place with 45 points!

Lily-Claire Fan (Fr), Ryan Guo (Fr), Bowen Li (Fr), Emma Lu (Fr), Eric Xiong (Fr), Claire Yu (Fr), Alex Zhang (Fr), Abhijyot Chadha (So), Debarghya Das (So), Sheetansu Sahoo (So), Dannan Li (Jr), Andrew Oakes (Jr), Amritha Praveen (Jr), Eric Zhang (Jr), and Jonathan He (Sr) all had perfect papers!

With 321 points out of a possible 350, Stevenson sits in second place in the conference standings, 7 points behind Whitney Young.

April 26, 2025 – ICTM State Results

On April 26, Stevenson traveled to Illinois State University for the ICTM State meet and placed 4th overall in the state with 923 points! The Stevenson Freshman-Sophomore 2-Person and Calculator teams placed first across the entire state, as well as Jonathan He in the individual competition!

The following students and teams were awarded on Saturday:

Wenhan Li: 5th Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (38 points)
Eric Zhang: 7th Place in Sophomore Geometry Contest (38 points)

Jonathan He: 🥇 1st Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (40 points – Perfect Paper)
Angela Ho: 9th Place in Junior Algebra II Contest (38 points)

Jaden Chen: 6th Place in Senior Precalculus Contest (38 points)

Freshman Algebra 1 Team: 6th Place (126 points)
Abhijyot Chadha, Debarghya Das, Adrian Gualdron, Sheetansu Sahoo, Amarjot Singh, Tristan Wu

Sophomore Geometry Team: 🥈 2nd Place (134 points)
Alex Gou, Dannan Li, Wenhan Li, Jill Wang, Eric Zhang, Tony Zhou

Junior Algebra 2 Team: 🥈 2nd Place (150 points)
Andre Dreesen, Jonathan He, Angela Ho, Kaden Jeon, Tanav Ravella, Richard Xu

Senior Precalculus Team: 🥉 3rd Place (130 points)
Jaden Chen, Aditya Gupta, Audrey Hong, Diana Tang, Lillian Wang, Mark Yang

Junior-Senior 8-Person Team: 🥉 3rd Place (95 points)
Jonathan He, Angela Ho, Audrey Hong, Tanav Ravella, Shreyan Sarkar, Diana Tang, Jingyi Wu, Richard Xu

Calculator Team: 🥇 1st Place (100 points – Perfect Paper)
Reuben Gonsalves, Angela Ho, Dannan Li, Amarjot Singh Lillian Wang, Richard Xu, Mark Yang, Eric Zhang

Freshman-Sophomore 2-Person Team: 🥇 1st Place (54 points)
Wenhan Li, Eric Zhang

Junior-Senior 2-Person Team: 🥉 3rd Place (52 points)
Jaden Chen, Jonathan He

Oral Presentation Team: 8th Place (42 points)
Jaden Chen, Tamoghna Dutta

From The Desk of Paul Kim: 2025_0429 MATH TEAM

Our last MATH TEAM meeting is tomorrow.

Last as in following all others in a sequence.  

Last as in savoring an event and “making it last” as long as possible

Last as in this will be the last MATH TEAM meeting for seniors for the rest of their lives.

… and in a crazy circle of life, we will start our math team meeting by proof-reading the junior high math contest questions that we wrote together.  It is how many of our seniors started their SHS MATH TEAM careers.  

Random food potluck! Let’s have some snacks. =). Please bring some snacks to share at our meeting!  Not required that you bring anything, but we will have a food table where you can drop off some food and grab some food!  =). Extra box of girl scout cookies?  Bring them!  You have a new sleeve of crackers?  Bring them!  Fruit?  Drinks?  Bananas?  Not-expired-halloween-candy?  Ummm yeah, you know we’d gobble it up.  =)

We will also have some awards to pass out.  

NSML awards, math modeling awards, ictm awards, amc/aime awards, and even “best question” for each junior high event award!

We will also announce our e-board for next year!

We will also take a moment to recognize our seniors… 

It should be super fun!  Math!  Random food!  And a time to celebrate each other. 

1500-1502 

all grade levels

3:31 – 4:32

Now go and stuff some food in your backpack!

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From The Desk of Paul Kim: 2025_0415 MATH TEAM

Mathamos!!!

April 15 is Tax Day.  Besides voting, Tax Day is one of the most intimate interactions Americans have with their government. 

April 15 is MATH TEAM.  Besides math class, MATH TEAM is one of the most intimate interactions students have with mathematics.

Many of your teachers (and parents) are hoping to collect a nice return.  In MATH TEAM, we are preparing for a nice return to the podium as we get ready for the state tournament. 

This Tuesday will (very likely) be our second-to-last MATH TEAM Tuesday of the year!  Don’t write this one off!  Come ready to itemize your strategies and audit your accuracy.  We will spend most of our time grinding through the fine print of the state math code to squeeze out all the value we can for the 2025 annual year.

More deadlines!  As we announced this week in our Tuesday MATH TEAM, our applications are open for both eboard and modeling teams.  Applications are due Monday night – April 14 at 11:59 pm.  
• eboard application
• modeling team application
Be sure to get your paperwork in on time to avoid late payment penalties!

No exemptions from effort.  No loopholes out of hard work.  No withholding your brilliance.  Success is dependent on the gains you are making through your independent work and corporate earnings.

Yes, you heard it right.  This week is our second to last meeting.  Next week we are off due to the ACT.  Then we anticipate April 29 to be our last MATH TEAM Tuesday of the year.  We will use that time to proof the junior high contest, pass out awards, announce the new e-board, celebrate seniors, … and share some snacks. =)

You’ve invested your time and effort all year… let’s maximize our yield in these final days.

See you on Tax Day, April 15

1500/1502 Soph/Sr
1506 Jr
1508/1510 Frosh

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fineprint: yes, I filed my taxes just now

From The Desk of Paul Kim: 2025_0408 MATH TEAM

We stars!  Great we are. Dare we be sweet! Career we be fast!!! Fear creed be great!  Defy fear!  We get great reward!  We serve great. We better!  Weeeee!!!!!

Ok… there’s actually a lot of info we need to get out.  I’ll take the sling off and type the rest of this email with two hands.

1.   Believe it or not there are only 2 more Tuesdays before state!  This week, next week, and then we lose a week because of ACT testing.  In that light, we will likely sit for a full-length exam this Tuesday (some grade levels will be doing other things).  It is helpful to sit for a full length exam with peers around you in a pseudo-stressful environment as we prepare for state.  Whether or not you sit for the competition, it will be good to do rigorous math for 50 minutes… or as close as we can get.  It is the same reason why practicing the WHOLE ACT in one sitting is better than practicing just a little here and there.  Good luck to those taking the ACT this week… max out that math section!!!

2.   Believe it or not, we will have fewer MATH TEAM Tuesdays than there are fingers on your left hand!

3.   Believe it or not, we will be looking for new e-board members for MATH TEAM!  That’s right.  We decided that ALL of our senior leaders: Jaden Audrey, Diana, and Lillian, will no longer be fit to lead us next year.  They will not be asked back.  Yup.  We’re cutting them lose.  So long!  Adios!  Bu-bye!   We will describe the process to apply for our e-board in our meeting this week.

4.   Believe it or not, our math modeling season is done.  Our Junior team of Richard, Jonathan, Angela, Tanav, and Kritik made it as semi-finalists in the Modeling the Future Challenge and through the triage round of the M3Challenge.  Super achievements!  Congrats to our juniors!  Our senior modeling team of Lillian, Audrey, Diana, Jaden, and Catherine finished as semi-finalists in the M3Challenge and scooped up a tidy $1500 in scholarship money.  Congrats to our seniors!  This means we will be looking for the next generation of modeling teams.  We will describe the process to apply as a modeling team in our meeting this week.

See you Tuesday!
1508/1510 to start for all!
3:32-4:35

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