2025 Math and AI 4 Girls Competition Results​

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Award Recipient List:

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Top 5: 

1st Place: Hayden Hughes, CT, 8th grade​

2nd Place: Aashita Mandiwal, UT, 8th grade

3rd Place: Ella Zheng, CA, 8th grade

4th Place: Violette Yang, MD, 8th grade

5th Place: Lisa Cao, MN, 8th grade

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6th-10th: ​​

6th Place: Arya Nayak, MA, 8th grade

​7th Place: Angie Zhu, MD, 6th grade

​8th Place: Youan Wu, IL, 7th grade

9th Place: Chloe Mao, MA, 7th grade​

10th Place: Chelsea Lu, NV, 8th grade​

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High Honors (11th-20th in order): 

• Sophia Chen, IN, 7th grade

• Elaine Zhou, CT, 8th grade

• Stella Hong, OK, 8th grade

• Melody Jing, TX, 8th grade

• Adwita Mandiwal, UT, 8th grade

• Jelena Dong, GA, 7th grade

• Liz Zhang, NC, 8th grade

• Abigail Chen, IA, 7th grade

• Julie Ye, CT, 7th grade

• Emma Yu, NY, 8th grade

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Rising Stars:

• Caroline Yang, MN, 5th grade

• Divisha Nirak, GA, 5th grade

• Claire Wang, CA, 5th grade

• Chloe Yang, CA, 6th grade

• April Xu, IA, 6th grade

• Chloe Yan, MD, 6th grade

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Discord Kahoot Winner:

Contestant with highest cumulative score across 3 Kahoots hosted in the MAA4G Discord

Emily Tan, GA, 8th grade

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The Visionary Award:

Given to the student who recieved the highest score on the interview section given to the top 10 participants, a 27.16 out of 30

Lisa Cao, MN, 8th grade

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The Computation Award:

Given to the student who received the highest score on the problem set, a 98 out of 100

Ella Zheng, CA, 8th grade

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The Inspire Award:

Given to the student who received the highest total essay score, a 37.4 out of 40:

Melody Jing, TX, 8th grade

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Special thanks: ​

Many thanks to our gracious sponsors, Jane Street and DE Shaw, for providing merchandise and funding, respectively.

Thank you to the below individuals from Jane Street and DE Shaw:

Jane Street: Marina Zambrano

DE Shaw: Jenny Lee, Joe Kuperschmidt, Julia Dodenhoff

 

Thank you so much to our guest speakers Dani Wicklund, Nicole Villavicencio Garduno, and Annie Zhu.

 

Additionally, thank you to Natalie Shell (founder) and Wendy Cheng (Board member).

 

This year's competition wouldn't be possible without our wonderful co-presidents, acting co-presidents, leadership team, and team members. These girls, a group drawn exclusively from previous year's top scorers, have been exemplary in their talent, passion and thoughtfulness. Thank you so much to the below individuals:

Co-Presidents: Maggie Bai and Chinmayi Goyal

Acting co-presidents: Angie Huang and Sophia Jin.

Leadership team: Ivy Guo, Andrea Chen, Minlu (Lulu) Wang-He, Alice Lee, and Vaidehi Ramachandrula.

Problem Set Team Members: Jiayu (Ellie) Su, Fiona Liu, Eileen Wu, Adya Garg, Avery Xu, Yunong (Melody) Wu, and Thanishkka Vijayabaskar.

Communications Team Members: Angelina Wang, Evelyn Qiao, Advika Asthana, Rory Hu, Michelle Zheng, Sahanya Pallikonda, Eva Lin

Marketing Team Members: Christina Lu, Michelle Lin, Manalee Chowdhury, Eesha Vanamala, Kaylee Jeon, Olivia Lee, and Helen Wan.

Additional thanks to Lily Ma, a 2024 member

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