Donald Barry Wins Alfred Kalfus Founder's Award

On Saturday, June 4th, math instructor and math team coach Donald Barry was awarded the Alfred Kalfus Founder's Award by the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML).

The annual ARML competition brings together the nation's finest students for what some call the World Series of mathematics competitions.  The competition consists of a team round, a power question (in which a team solves proof-oriented questions), an individual round, two relay rounds (in which a contestant solves a problem and passes his/her answer to another team member, who uses this answer to solve another problem), and a super relay.

Each year, the ARML Board of Directors honors one individual with the Kalfus Founder's Award for long-term service in support of its annual competition.  Don was recognized for his outstanding work as lead question writer for the past 12 years.  Given the talent level and experience of the students who compete at this meet, writing and editing questions that are unique, challenging, and able to be solved in a short period of time is a formidable task.  Barry's book, American Regions Math League and ARML Power Contest 1195-2003, is a must-have for math team coaches around the world.

PA Computer Science Team Wins First Place

The Phillips Academy Computer Science team had a successful year, winning
the first-place title for the U.S. Northern Region in the American Computer
Science League's (ACSL) 2004-2005 contests.  On May 28, three members of
the team took part in ACSL's All-Star national contest in Emmaus,
Pennsylvania.  The P.A. team earned 5th place and was recognized at the
awards ceremony in the "Senior-3" category, the second-highest place finish
ever by Phillips Academy.  Students representing P.A. at the All-Star contest were Andrew Hsiao, Patrick Jiang, and Emma Wollman, who each won individual awards in the short questions category in addition to contributing to the team's success overall.  Our team also placed fifth in the country in the Continental Math League's national computer science contest in the Java programming language.  Phillips Academy's Computer Science club meets every week during the school year to practice problem solving and review the various contest categories.