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CORVALLIS - Students from high schools across Oregon recently earned medals at the 19th annual Oregon Invitational Mathematics Tournament at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

More than 230 high school students participated in the event, hosted by the OSU Department of Mathematics and the OSU Department of Science and Mathematics Education. The students qualified for the state competition through outstanding performances in earlier regional competitions or by achieving a qualifying test score. Students competed in five categories: algebra one, geometry, algebra two, advanced one (precalculus), and advanced two (calculus). Additional options for participation were provided for team and individual problem solving, puzzles, games, estimation, and poster competitions.

Students with a score among the top 10 in each category received a medal from the Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Other prizes included five $1,000 scholarships to the OSU College of Engineering, a $500 scholarship from CH2M Hill, a $100 scholarship from the Houghton-Mifflin Publishing Company, $20 gift certificates to the OSU Bookstore, graphing calculators from Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instruments, and books from Borders.

Winners in the competition included:

• ALBANY
  Jean-Huei Yau, West Albany High School, ninth place, algebra two test; Andrew Struther, West Albany High School, most participation, problems and games
• ASHLAND
  Chris Lipoli, Ashland High School, eighth place, geometry test; Ethan Townsend, Owen Thomas and Chris Lipski, all of Ashland High School, Giant Tangrams test, problems and games; Thomas Owen, most participation, problems and games; Ethan Townsend, Ashland High School, second place, advanced two test
• BAY CITY
  Chris Josi, Neah-kay-Nie, most creative, poster contest, and origami jumping frog, problems and games
• BEAVERTON
  Jessica Mannen, Valley Catholic, fourth place, geometry test; Frank Chiou, Valley Catholic, ninth place, geometry test; Kasra Omid-Zohoor, George Little and Thai Li, all of Beaverton High School, fourth, fifth and sixth place in advanced one test; Kimberly Fong, Southridge High School, best of show in poster contest
• BEND
  Katie Coil, Summit High School, fifth place, geometry test; Erin Sullivan, Bend High School, first place, algebra two test; Aaron Rice, Mountain View High School, third place, advanced two test; Tom Sweat, Mountain View High School, eighth place, advanced two test; Michael Forte, Summit High School, eighth place, advanced two test; Nick Trowbridge, Kristen Bitter, Joanna Lee, Josh Day and Caitlin Deane, all of Summit High School, giant soma cubes, problems and games; Simon Van Neste, Sunriver Prep, fourth place, algebra one test
• CORVALLIS
  Ellen Hyde, Crescent Valley High School, first place, geometry test; Diana Garity, Corvallis High School, second place, algebra two test; Lauren Higdon, Crescent Valley High Schoool, tenth place, algebra two test; Nicholas Ahn, Corvallis High School, third place, advanced one test; Avery Anderson, Nicholas Myers and Adam Cole, all of Corvallis High School, fifth, sixth and seventh place, advanced one test; Evan Thatcher and Colin Shear, both of Corvallis High School, ninth and tenth place, advanced one test; Julian Rosen, Crescent Valley High School, first place, advanced two test; Jacob Eccles and Nick Alexander, both of Corvallis High School, ninth and tenth place, advanced two test; Ellen Hyde, Crescent Valley High School, yahtzee, problems and games; Kevin Yeh, Crescent Valley High School, best math content, poster contest; Daniel Freilich and Laurel Staton-Smith, both of Corvallis High School, sixth and seventh place, algebra two test; Emily Chi, Crescent Valley High School, eighth place, algebra two test
• EUGENE
  Rowe Kasey, Marist High School, first place, algebra one test, and most participation, problems and games; Rachel Kincade, Marist High School, seventh place, algebra one test; Kevin Lewis, Marist High School, third place, geometry test; Wenqi Shao, South Eugene High School, first place, advanced one test
• FORT KLAMATH
  Dale Brown, Hosanna Christian School, second place, algebra one test; Dale and Brian Brown, Hosanna Christian school, estimation golf, problems and games
• GRESHAM
  Megan Suyehire, Gresham High School, sixth places, algebra one test
• KEISER
  Stephanie Hatley, McNary High School, second place, geometry test
• KLAMATH FALLS
  Joshua Dalton, The Triad School, tenth place, algebra one test
• MEDFORD
  Joy Yoo, Cascade Christian, fifth place, algebra two test
• MYRTLE POINT
  Caleb Carpenter, Myrtle Point High School, eighth place, algebra one test
• PORTLAND
  Holden Sweeden, Benson Poly, fourth place, advanced one test; Michael Smith, Cleveland High School, second place, advanced one test
• ROCKAWAY
  Alyson Riulta, Neah-kah-Nie, third place, algebra one test; Jason Werner, Neah-kah-Nie, fifth place, algebra one test
• ROSEBURG
  James Kunert, Umpqua Valley Christian, ninth place, algebra one test; Robert Congdon, Umpqua Valley Christian, sixth place, geometry test; Kyle Fullerton, Roseburg High School, eighth place, advanced one test; Rose Wieland and Gavin Johnson, Roseburg High School, giant soma cubes, problems and games; Kyle Fullerton, Raymond Chan, Kami Mecham, Kyle Mecham, A.J. Flammany, and Robert Kruse, all of Roseburg High School, giant box puzzle, problems and games
• SALEM
  Ryan Rasmussen and Walt Woods, Sprague High School, third and fourth place, algebra two test