2014 Purple Comet

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2014 Purple Comet at Bard (I think this is the first year we hosted the Purple Comet. Our records are pretty weak.)

Bard Math Circle Team 1 (Middle School, Mixed Team)
Katie Houston, Brian Wu
Answered 6 of 20 problems correctly, placed 67th out of 99 teams competing in the USA.

Bard Math Circle Team 2 (Middle School, Mixed Team)
Issa Leifer, Wyatt Gibbons, Camille Savarese, Balthazar Loglia, Nathaniel Parker
Answered 9 of the 20 questions correctly, placed 4th out of 8 teams competing in NY and 44th out of 99 in the USA.

Bard Math Circle Team 3 (Middle School, 401 and up)
Hunter Nelson, Daniel Rose-Levine, Douglass Appenzeller, Emily Appenzeller
Answered 6 of the 20 questions correctly, placed 42nd out of 66 teams competing in NY and 298th out of 591 in the USA.

Japheth Wood

I’m Japheth Wood (he/him), the Bard Math CAMP co-director, and a math professor at Bard College. CAMP (which is an acronym for Creative and Analytical Math Program) is a very special week of the year for our young math community. It's inspiring to see our students return year after year. This is our 11th summer of CAMP! We're back once again on the idyllic Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and thankful to the CAMP students, parents, and staff, for making this mathemagical week happen. Notably, we've (finally) had our first CAMP reunion this past June, an event that I know will grow to be an integral part of what we do.

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Frances Stern

My name is Frances Stern (she/her/hers)! I’ve been teaching math at CAMP since the first year, making sure our math theme has a connection to art and computer. It’s fun to show students math that they don’t see in school. I've retired from daily teaching but continue to teach for the New York Math Circle & students who are seeking more math in their lives. My hobbies include learning to draw, paint, & juggle, reading, walking & folk dancing. I’ve written 2 books for teachers and parents called “Adding Math, Subtracting Tension” (for different age-ranges of children). They pay as much attention to how to keep out of a fight (what many parents told me is a problem) as they do to math.

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