Northern California Championship
mathleague.org is pleased to announce that the second annual Northern California championship meet for high school math students will take place this year on April 24, 2010 at Amador Valley High School. Students and teams may qualify to attend the championship meet by scoring at least 50% on any event at one of our local qualifying rounds or through an optional mail-in round available to mathleague.org member schools. Although these contests are designed for high school students, junior high students may compete at both the qualifying meets and the championship meet. You can find out more about the tests offered at these contests by looking over the information in the high school section of our site at http://mathleague.org/hs.php. Information about the mail-in round will be emailed to schools once they have purchased a membership for this school year. In addition to practice materials available for purchase on our website, we also have a set of practice tests available for free download so your students can prepare for our contests and get used to the format.
The mail-in contest can be taken at your school anytime before March 15, and the qualifying meets (consisting of Sprint, Target, Team, and Relay rounds) will be held at the following locations throughout Northern California this school year:
- 2009-10-10, San Jose State University (SCI 142), San Jose
- 2009-11-14, University of California (2040 Valley LSB), Berkeley
- 2009-12-12, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton
http://www.avmathteam.org/nccqm
(Contact: Kevin Kiyoi, kkiyoi@pleasanton.k12.ca.us)- 2010-01-09, Stanford University (Bldg 380), Stanford
- 2010-01-16, UC Davis, Sacramento
www.sacmath.com
(Contact: Jeff Soesbe, sacmathcontests@gmail.com)- 2010-02-13, San Jose State University (starts at 2:30pm, WSQ 109), San Jose
- 2010-03-13, Diablo Valley College (starts at 2:30pm, MA101), Pleasant Hill
Qualified students will be invited to compete at the Northern California championship:
- 2010-04-24: Amador Valley HS (starts at 7:30am, map), Pleasanton
Links for registering are at the bottom of this page. More events will be added to this list as they are confirmed. If none of the listed locations are convenient for you, please contact us at mathleague@mathleague.org to discuss how you may host a qualifying meet for your school and the others in your area. Please note that students attaining the 50% cutoff score in any event at any contest are eligible to take all tests at the championship meet.
Registration for most of these events will begin at 8:30am. Testing will run from 9:00am to 12:30pm, and results should be announced around 1:00pm. Note: the February and March contests will begin at 2:30pm, with testing from 3:00pm to 6:30pm and results immediately following. Registrants for each of these contests will be sent confirmation, along with information about the specific campus location of the contest, by email. Registration fee for each contest will be $10 per student and may be paid online or upon arrival at the contest. Please arrange to have an adult chaperone present if your school has six or more students registered; these adults may be asked to help proctor or grade tests, and may be teachers or parents. You may register your students for any of these contests by going to http://mathleague.org/register.php. Registration will be accepted up to five days before each contest; after that, late entries will be accepted only if there is space available (email us at mathleague@mathleague.org to check on availability if this applies to you). It is possible for your students to attend multiple qualifying rounds in order to maximize their chances of qualifying for the championship meet. Note: The December qualifying meets are franchise contests being hosted by organizations other than mathleague.org. They will still offer official mathleague.org tests and may be used to post tryout scores for the ARML team, but you will need to contact the tournament organizers directly for information regarding registration fees and start times.
Looking toward next year, mathleague.org will be setting the dates for next year's contests in May. We always strive to avoid scheduling conflicts with other contests. Any requests for specific dates, or information about other contests we should coordinate scheduling with, should be emailed by May 1 to mathleague@mathleague.org. If your school is interested in hosting a qualifying round for next year, feel free to contact us anytime for more information.
Click here to register for one of the local qualifying meets. Attending one or more of these meets is one way to qualify students for the championship meet.
Click here to sign your school up as a mathleague.org member. Membership is required for students at your school to compete at the championship meet, and will also give your school the opportunity to take the mail-in contest in your school as an additional opportunity to qualify for the championship meet.
