MNYMO Competition 2025
Our in-person competition will take place on Saturday, August 30th from 1–6:30 PM at the St. Paul Academy & Summit School Upper School Campus. Gather your team of 4–6 students for individual, team, and Estimathon rounds!
Register here!
Schedule
- 12:30–1:00 Competition Check-in
- 1:00–1:20 Opening Ceremony
- 1:30–2:10 General Round (Po-Shen Loh Parent Talk: Parenting and Education for an AI-Dominated World)
- 2:15–2:45 Mastery Round
- 2:55–3:30 Optional Estimation
- 3:40–4:00 Team Round
- 4:05–5:25 Guts Round
- 5:30–6:10 Po-Shen Loh Student Talk
- 6:10–6:30 Awards & Closing Ceremony
Format
Teams of 4–6 students compete in:
- General Round: 40 minutes, 20 short-answer problems (MATHCOUNTS to lower-AIME level).
- Mastery Round: 30 minutes, 8 short-answer problems (AMC to mid-AIME level).
- Team Round: 20 minutes, 10 short-answer problems (MATHCOUNTS to lower-AIME level).
- Guts Round: 80 minutes, 9 sets of 3 problems each, real-time scoring.
- Estimathon (optional): 30 minutes, 13 estimation problems. See how the Estimathon works.
Guest Speaker: Po-Shen Loh
Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics, education, and healthcare, all around the world. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and served a decade-long term as the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team from 2013–2023. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way to learn challenging math live online at comparable engagement to live-streaming entertainment, to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest.
As an academic, Po-Shen has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. His scientific research considers a variety of questions that lie at the intersection of combinatorics (the study of discrete systems), probability theory, and computer science. As an educator, he was the coach of Carnegie Mellon University’s math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. His research and educational outreach takes him to cities across the world, reaching over 10,000 people each year through public lectures and events, and he has featured in or co-created videos totaling over 25 million YouTube views.
Learn more about him and LIVE here.
Prizes
Top individuals and teams will receive prizes including medals and monetary awards. All camp and competition participants will receive a $25 discount code for any of the LIVE, by Po-Shen Loh courses (valid until December 2025) and will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a free LIVE, by Po-Shen Loh course, valued at $439-$599/seat. Additionally, all competitors will receive free t-shirts provided by Jane Street.
Problems & Solutions (2024)
Results (2024)
Division I (8th Grade & Above)
- 1st Place: Mark Shi
- 2nd Place: Aarush Achunala
- 3rd Place: Anshdeep Singh
- 4th Place: Archith Sridhar
- 5th Place: Sai Potini
Teams
- 1st Place: Allison Zhang, Mark Shi, Neysa Naveen, Shreeya Pratheep, Vansh Dhalgara, Vincent Lin
- 2nd Place: Aarush Achunala, Adhyayan Gupta, Anwesha Paul, Ishaan Konar, Taran Jadiyaver
- 3rd Place: Abhinav Rai, Elma Zhang, Lakshitha Potini, Sai Potini, Shiven Kharidehal
Division II (7th Grade & Below)
- 1st Place: Ahmed Ilyasov
- 2nd Place: Anchit Kumar
- 3rd Place: Max Wang
- 4th Place: Hu Hong
- 5th Place: Leon Yuan
Teams
- 1st Place: Adlai Jeevanathan, Ahmed Ilyasov, Jared Naveen, Summer Liu, Youchan Song
- 2nd Place: Hu Hong, Leon Yuan, Matthew Duanmu, Max Wang, Yilong Hou
- 3rd Place: Arthur Owen, Edward Owen, Jonathan Hong, Keshav Kharidehal, Krish Dhalgara
