The 2022 Math and AI 4 Girls Award Ceremony will be on Saturday, June 18th, 2022 at 2PM EST.
Many thanks to our gracious sponsors: HPE, Automation Anywhere, JPMorgan Chase and D.E. Shaw. We would also like to thank our partners, MathCounts and AI4ALL.
Finally, this year's competition wouldn't be possible without our wonderful team members: Yunseo Ha, Kira Lewis, Chinmayi Goyal, Maggie Bai, Snigtha Mohanraj, Andrea Chen, Ivy Guo, Daria Bondarenko, and Sailalitha Kodukula. These girls, a group drawn exclusively from last year's top scorers, have been exemplary in their talent, passion and thoughtfulness.
Award Recipient List:
Top 10:
1st Place: Amritha Praveen, IL, 6th grade
2nd Place: Kira Lewis, NY, 8th grade
3rd Place: Advika Asth
Maggie Bai
Maggie is a junior at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. She has been passionate about math since a young age, and discovered her passion in competition math when she was in 5th grade. Since then, she has participated in competitions such as MathCOUNTS, the AMC series, AIME, and more.
Maggie joined Math and AI 4 Girls as an 8th grader, and has since then been inspired enormously by the team, and the many young girls who have submitted entires for the competition. She hopes that this competition can have a positive impact in making math and AI more accessible to young girls.
Chinmayi Goyal
Chinmayi is a sophomore at Yorktown High School in New York. She is very passionate about math and science, and has competed in various competitions such as the USAJMO, Math Prize for Girls, and has won in the top ten in the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament and Yale Girls in Math.
Outside of math, she enjoys playing her clarinet, writing, and is an editor of her school’s newspaper. She is also an active member of her school’s Science Olympiad and has won multiple gold medals at the regional and state level. She enjoys teaching competition math in her local math circle, and is passionate about empowering girls.
Natalie Shell
Natalie Shell is a current sophomore at Stanford University, planning to major in Computer Science. In addition to conducting research at Stanford's AI4ALL program, MIT's RSI program, and Harvard's Hoffman Lab, she recently interned at SpaceX, on the Starlink Direct to Cell team.
Natalie founded Math and AI 4 Girls because she believes that Math and AI should be open to anyone with talent and passion regardless of their background and experience, and she hopes this nonprofit will play a role in removing barriers and achieving greater participation for girls and other underrepresented groups in Math and AI.
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Ivy Guo
Problem Set Co-Leader
Ivy Guo has been participating in math and programming competitions for many years and has achieved top scores in the AMC series and at Math Prize for Girls. Outside of math she loves attempting various craft projects.
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Sophia Jin
Problem Set Co-Leader
Sophia Jin is a freshman at Iowa City West High School who is very passionate about mathematics and STEM. She is a member of the Math and AI 4 Girls Problem Set team. Sophia hopes to encourage young girls to love math and science.
Adya Garg
Problem Set Team Member
Adya Garg is a freshman at Briar Woods High School and the Academies of Loudoun in Virginia. She has had a love for math and STEM since 3rd grade and wants to inspire others to discover the beauty of math. She placed 3rd at MATHCOUNTS States and has qualified for the AIME and Math Prize for Girls. She has also participated in ACSL and USACO. Outside of math, she enjoys playing basketball and listening to music.
Angie Huang
East Ridge High School
Angie Huang is a freshman who has been participating in math competitions since 5th grade. She is a two-time aime qualifier and placed 5th in MATHCOUNTS State. Outside of math, she is a debater and plays both piano and tennis.
Vaidehi Ramachandrula
Problem Set Team Member
Vaidehi is a freshman at Brookfield Central High School and has been passionate about STEM since her younger days. She enjoys participating in Math competitions, Science Bowl, and FTC. In her spare time, she loves dancing(for over 10 years!), singing, and learning new languages. She has always believed that girls should be encouraged to participate in the STEM fields at a younger age, and is proud to be a problem set developer for this competition!
Avery Xu
Problem Set Team Member
Avery Xu is a freshman at Ardsley High School and is enthusiastic about STEM. Her hobbies also include swimming, painting, origami, and violin. She is proud to be joining the MA4G team and hopes to meet other girls who also love math and AI!
Andrea Chen
Communications Leader
Andrea is a sophomore in AAST at Bergen County Academies, and has been participating in math competitions since 5th grade. She attended HCSSiM (yp17!) and is a three-time AIME qualifier. Outside of math, she is an oboist and enjoys learning physics and coding.
Katrina Liu
Communications Team Member
Yunseo Ha
Alabama School of Math and Science
Hello! My name is Yunseo (I go by Yun) and I am a sophomore attending the Alabama School of Math and Science. Anything relating to math, physics, engineering, fascinated me, and I also love to tinker with Arduinos and making CAD models! I am passionate about inclusivity in diversity in STEM, which is why I am so happy to be a part of the MAA4G team. Some of my other hobbies include playing the guitar and chess!
Minlu Wang-He
Marketing Team Member
Minlu Wang-He is an energetic 8 th grader at Auburn Junior High School. She enjoys reading, problem solving, and STEM. She placed 6th in the MATHCOUNTS State competition, and 2nd nationally in Math Kangaroo. She made Top 300 in the Thermo Fisher Junior Innovator Challenge with her project about reducing sprinkler water waste using a novel nozzle design. In her free time, she plays tennis and volunteers at the local library, as well
as reading copious amounts of YA Fiction.
Helen Wan
Marketing Team Member
Helen Wan is a high schooler in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was a top placer at MATHCOUNTS state, a Colorado Science and Engineering Fair state first place winner, and a Thermo-Fisher JIC top 300 finalists. She loves learning physics and math because of the logical process and explanation behind each answer. Apart from academics, Helen does various sports including cross country, swimming, and tennis.
Snigtha Mohanraj
Marketing Team Member
I have had a passion for STEM since a young age, and I am specifically very passionate about scientific research and have been conducting independent research projects regarding water quality for several years. I am also a climate activist within my community and work with several climate groups.
Lily Ma
Marketing Team Member
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Samhitha Kovi
Chief Technical Officer
Samhitha (Sam) Kovi is a freshman at Lambert High School in Georgia, who has been participating in math competitions since 3rd grade, placing top 5 at the MATHCOUNTS State Competition and qualifying for AIME twice. She participated in the 2022 MAAI4G competition and placed in the top 16. She believes that it is important to empower more girls to pursue STEM in the future. In her free time, she enjoys public forum debate, reading books of all genres, listening to classic rock, and practicing martial arts.
Alice Lee
Technical Officer Team Member