Thanks to our student coaches!

The photo above shows many Albany Area Math Circle veterans celebrating at our year-end picnic after a terrific year of working with younger students as middle school math circle mentors, MATHCOUNTS coaches, and running summer math camps for middle schoolers. (You can click on the thumbnail for a better view.)

Students pictured are from left to right:

Eric Wang (Shenendahoah HS junior, Acadia/Gowana/Koda MS MATHCOUNTS coach)

Dave Bieber (Niskayuna HS junior, Van Antwerp MS MATHCOUNTS coach, founder and leader summer middle school math camp)

Matthew Babbitt (homeschool 8th grader from Fort Edward, heeg MATHCOUNTS coach, middle school math circle mentor)

Schuyler Smith (homeschool sophomore from Ballston Lake, middle school math circle mentor)

Jay White (homeschool sophomore from Schenectady, heeg MATHCOUNTS coach)

Dana McLaughlin (Guilderland HS sophomore, middle school math circle mentor)

Andrew Ardito (homeschool junior from Coxsackie, AAMC captain, mentor/group-leader middle school math circle)

Zagreb Mukerjee (Guilderland HS senior, heeg MATHCOUNTS coach, middle school math circle lead mentor)

Bea Malsky (Guilderland HS sophomore, middle school math circle mentor)

Markus Salasoo (Niskayuna HS senior, summer math camp co-founder, middle school math circle mentor)

Liz Simon (Guilderland HS senior, lead mentor middle school math circle)

Jason Xu (Niskayuna High School sophomore, middle school math circle mentor)

Anagha Tolpadi (Niskayuna High School junior, Iroquois MS MATHCOUNTS coach, middle school math circle mentor)

Lindsay White (homeschool senior from Schenectady, heeg MATHCOUNTS coach)

Felix Sun (Shenendahoah HS sophomore, Acadia/Gowana/Koda MS MATHCOUNTS coach, middle school math circle lead mentor)

Not pictured:

Haejin Hwang (Guilderland HS sophomore, middle school math circle mentor)

Noah Rubin (Guilderland HS sophomore, middle school math circle mentor)

Wyatt Smith (homeschool freshman from Ballston Lake, middle school math circle mentor)

Luke Trouwborst (homeschool junior from Schenectady, heegMATHCOUNTS coach)

Thanks to all of you who have generously shared your talents and your enthusiasm for challenging mathematics with so many terrific younger students this year!