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For the second year in a row, Hamilton’s Mathletics team has won the Snow Bowl competition, icing the competition from Colgate University, St. Lawrence University, and Skidmore College.

The Hamilton Mathletics team has won the Snow Bowl competition this year, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College, and St. Lawrence University. Skidmore won the cup last year, so the team is very proud to bring it back to Hamilton.

The Hamilton Mathletics Team took part in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition on Dec. 2. The competition took the form of a six-hour written exam, which the team had trained for throughout the fall semester.

For the second consecutive year Hamilton’s Mathletics Team has won the Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and St. Lawrence University. Each team’s top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam, given in December, were added together to determine the winner.

The Hamilton Mathletics team won first place in the annual Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and St. Lawrence University. Each team’s top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam, given in December, were added together to determine the winner. 

The Hamilton Mathletics Team sat for the William Lowell Putnam exam on Saturday, Dec. 5.  Coached by Associate Professor of Mathematics Andrew Dykstra, the team had trained for the exam throughout the fall semester and consisted of a record-high number of 20 students. The Putnam exam is the most famous undergraduate mathematics competition in the country.  The exam is so challenging that most years the national median score is zero out of 120 possible points

Fifteen students from the Hamilton Mathletics Team sat for the William Lowell Putnam exam on Dec. 7. The students trained for the exam throughout the fall semester under the direction of Assistant Professors of Mathematics Andrew Dykstra and Courtney Gibbons.

For the third year in a row, the Hamilton Mathletics team won first place in the annual Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and St. Lawrence University.  To determine the winner, each team in the competition added their top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam.

Twelve students from Hamilton’s Mathletics team competed nationally on Dec. 1 in the William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition.  The students  on this year’s team are Jeremy Adelman ’13, Julian Aronowitz ’14, Sitong Chen ’16, Yifei Chen ’13, Robert Huben ’15, Jessie Shelton ’15,  Sunrose Shrestha ’14, Justin Smith ’14, Josh Snyder ’13, Yonghun Song ’13, Peter Talpey ’14 and Evan Van Tassell ’13. They’ve trained for the competition throughout the fall semester with Assistant Professor of Mathematics Andrew Dykstra.

Students from the Hamilton Mathletics team won first place in the annual Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and Saint Lawrence University.  To determine the winner, each team in the competition added their top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam.