USAMO Medalist Benjamin Gunby Profiled in D.C. Paper
| June 29, 2011 |
Local Washington, D.C., newspaper The Northwest Current recently profiled 2011 USAMO winner Benjamin Gunby (Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC). Gunby is currently preparing to compete for the USA team at the 52nd International Mathematical Olympiad on July 16-24 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Read the full article (pdf).
A gold medal-winner at the 2010 IMO, Gunby was also the winner of the 2010 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament and the 2010 American Regions Mathematics League. He was honored alongside the nation's best and the brightest at the 2010 White House Science Fair. He would like to thank his supportive family and his math teacher, Andy Lipps, who has been incredible for supporting mathematics at Georgetown Day School. He will be attending MIT in the fall.
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