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38 students at Lansing High School participated in the 63rd annual American Mathematics Contest 12, and/or the 13th annual American Mathematics Contest 10. The contests were held on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. The students competed for local, regional and national student and school awards.

The contest, which covers high school mathematics, is given in participating schools. Its purpose is to spur interest in mathematics and develop talent through the excitement of friendly competition at problem solving in a timed format. In 2011, over 220,000 students from 4,200 schools participated in the AMC 10 & AMC 12 contest.

The top scorer at Lansing High School for AMC 12 was Agi Csaki (junior).  Team members accompanying Agi include Trevor Wheeler (junior) and Cristian Zaloj (senior).  Top scorer for the AMC 10 was freshman Elena Gupta.  Team members accompanying Elena include freshmen Kathryn Miller and Matt Robinson.

According to Prof. Steven Dunbar, who serves as Director of the American Mathematics Competitions, the AMC 12 (first offered in 1950), and the AMC 10 (first offered in 2000), are part of a series of contests sponsored each year by The Mathematical Association of America, through their program, the American Mathematics Competitions.


The AMC offers the only math competition series in the country leading to the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), the United States of American Junior Mathematical Olympiad (USAJMO) and the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program (MOSP).

From this group of students, the AMC sends the highly competitive USA Team to the prestigious annual International Mathematical Olympiad.

The AMC is located at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and receives support from the Akamai Foundation, Academy of Applied Sciences, American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges, American Mathematical Society, American Statistical Association, Art of Problem Solving, Awesome Math, Casualty Actuarial Society, D.E. Shaw & Co., IDEA Math, Jane Street, Math for America, Mu Alpha Theta, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Pi Mu Epsilon, Society for Industrial and Applied Math, W. H. Freeman and Company. The Contests are given across the U.S.A., Canada, and in many schools abroad.

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