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Team El Marino: Clockwise, from left: Johanna Covarrubias, advisor; Principal Tracy Pumilia, Mathletes: Stanley Funnell, James Kocher, Cooper Komatsu (1st place), Oliver Marcus (4th place); Alice Horiba, advisor; Mathletes: Max St. Claire, Sophia Stuart, Ben Glick, So Niiyama, Cobi Rifkin, Rio Smith.
Culver City students fared impressively – especially Cooper Komatsu of El Marino Language School – at the sixth annual Los Angeles Countywide Math Olympiads Tournament, where 30 teams represented 21 schools.
Culver City boasted of two champions to go along with Mr. Komatsu’s success last week as runnerup in the County Spelling Bee to qualify for the state championships on Saturday, April 20.
Students were tested individually and in teams on higher-level math problems.
Two of the three winners are Culver City base:
- Cooper Komatsu, a fifth-grader at El Marino,
- Samir Mallya of Farragut Elementary, and
- Edward Kim of Margaret Landell School.
Finish second were Aiden Tepper (Mirman), Clay Skaggs (Center for Early Education), and Yvette Copeland (Mirman).
Ehight students received a score of 9 out of 10 and had another tiebreaker to determine third and fourth place.
Third place scores went to Brendon Han (Margaret Landell), Catherine Dickerman (Center for Early Education), Edward Park (Margaret Landell), and Ethan Hodess (Center for Early Education).
Oliver Marcus of El Marino placed fourth along with Charlie Brady (Grant), David Oh (Margaret Landell) and Maxim Zhulin (Welby Way).
In the team competition, five students had to work cooperatively to solve 10 problems in 20 minutes.
El Marino Language School took first place, solving 9 out of 10 problems.
One hundred and fifty mathletes learned were cheered on recently in the County finals at the Lin Howe Elementary auditorium.
In the individual contest, six students received a perfect score, 10 of 10. These six students competed in a tiebreaker to determine first and second place. The tiebreaker problem was one problem that needed to be solved in 4 minutes or less. The students were graded on speed and accuracy.
Four teams scored 7 out of 10, and they had to compete in a tiebreaker to determine second and third place. The team competition tiebreaker was two problems in 5 minutes. This was also scored on speed and accuracy.
