Past press releases

Seattle Tour Math Opportunity ft. IMO Team Coach & CMU Prof. Po-Shen Loh

Memorial Weekend is just around the corner! While you celebrate the holiday and enjoy the long weekend, we’d also like to let you know about an exciting math opportunity happening this weekend!

If you’re interested in listening to a brilliant, eloquent, and enthusiastic math orator, come to the national tour of the one and only Po-Shen Loh, math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, long-time coach of the USA’s International Mathematics Olympiad team, founder of the educational program Expii and the contact tracing app NOVID. Prof. Loh is visiting the Seattle area over this weekend—registration and information can be found here (5/27 Bellevue 7PM, 5/30 Seattle 10AM, 5/30 Seattle 3PM). The last session might already be full; make sure to sign up quickly for the other two to secure a spot!

SIMC Student Leadership Group (SLG) Applications are closed for 2022-2023!

If you are a high school student or rising 9th grader who wants to get involved in SIMC, apply to be member of our Student Leadership Group! The application form is here. If you are a current SLG member, and would like to rejoin us in 2022-2023, please fill out the form as well. This is a great time to reflect on the past and plan for the future! Due date is May 15, 2022.

PUMaC 2021* was held on March 2022. Congratulations to Washington Gold for winning 10th place in the Team Round and 12th place in the Power Round! We’d also like to give special thanks to our team captain, Alex Zhao, for leading team practices and achieve fabulous results in Team and Power Rounds!

HMMT (Harvard-MIT Math Tournament) February 2022 was held on Saturday, February 19th. Congratulations to Washington Gold Team 1 for placing 8th overall (Sweepstakes), as well as 8th on the Team Round and 9th on the Guts Round! We’d also like to give special thanks to our team captain, Edward Yu, for leading the Washington Gold Team 1 to achieve outstanding results in all team categories!

Student leaders Michael Yang, Alex Zhao, and Edward Yu bring you video solution walkthroughs to last year’s Washington Gold TST problems. Check out the videos! You’ll not only find out how to solve the problems but also get insights about intuition and problem creation!

The 2021-2022 SIMC Mock MATHCOUNTS has concluded. Thanks to everyone for participating! All individual and team scores are being sent via email; problems and answer keys have been posted here. We would like to congratulate the following competitors for their outstanding performance on the Mock MATHCOUNTS:

Top 3 Individual Winners:

(1) Immanuel Whang (8th grade, Lakeside School)

(2) Jeffrey Zhao (8th grade, Tyee Middle School)

(3) Mingyue Yang (8th grade, Tyee Middle School)

Top Team:

Team name: Axel Li

Team members: Jeffrey Zhao, William Xu, Mingyue Yang, Daniel Ge

The SIMC Camps Panel has concluded; if you have any further questions, feel free to contact us at seattleinfinitymathcircle@gmail.com.

The 2021 HMMT/PUMaC TST has been concluded; solutions can be found here. If you did not take the TST and want to take a look at the problems, you can find the problems here.

The TST took place online:

Time: 4pm to 5pm

Date: Sunday, September 5

The problems and solutions are available on this page.

We ran our Mock MathCounts competition on February 2nd, 2020 from 1:30 to 5:00 PM at Bellevue Library! The competition was modeled more or less exactly like the real MathCounts competition, including a 30 question Individual round, a 8 question target round, a 10 question team round, and of course, a Countdown round.

Date: Saturday, February 2nd, 2020

Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Bellevue Library’s Meeting Room 1

We hosted a talk given by Po-Shen Loh, renowned mathematician and US IMO team leader. The talk introduced a novel method for solving quadratic equations, then opened up into an open Q&A session. This event is sponsored by the Daily Challenge with Po-Shen Loh (https://daily.poshenloh.com).

Date: Saturday, December 21st, 2019

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Location: Bellevue Library’s Meeting Room 1

SIMC hosted our first Mock AMC 8 on Sunday, November 10th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM to do a practice AMC 8. The results can be found here.

Date: Sunday, November 10th, 2019

Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Location: Redmond Library

On Saturday, October 19, 2019, Alex Wei presented “How to cheese the AMC 8: How to score a 25 while only solving 20”. The lecture covered alternate ways to approach certain problems on the AMC8, especially those out of a mathlete’s realm of knowledge.

Date: Saturday, October 19, 2019

Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm

Location: Lake Hills Library