Team Facts & News
From 1986 to 2013, the United States Teams have brought home: 49 Gold Medals, 35 Silver Medals, 29 Bronze Medals, and 11 Honorable Mentions. — AAPT.ORG
Meet the Team
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Alexander Bourzutschky
Traveling Team
Silver Spring, MD
Montgomery Blair High School
Teacher: James Schafer
Senior
Bio:From an early age, I excelled at mathematics. I was learning algebra and long division earlier than most of my peers. I especially enjoyed word problems… read more
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Bio:This past year has been a dizzying roller coaster ride in which friction can be neglected. I've been fortunate to have all of the amazing opportunities … read more
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Bio:As a youngster curious about the world, I had fair success studying most topics I encountered. I possessed a general inclination towards math and scienc… read more
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Bio:In elementary school, I discovered the joy of making stuff. Around second or third grade, my dad took me to Fry's Electronics. We passed by the kits ais… read more
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Bio:If I only had one word to represent myself, I would choose "curiosity". I wouldn't be surprised if half of the words I spoke in my childhood were why's … read more
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Bio:My earliest childhood memories are of cozy evenings spent curled up in the family room learning math and science from my Dad, an applied mathematician. … read more
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Bio:I was first introduced to the beauty of problem solving in the 7th grade when I decided to try my hand at the MathCounts competition series. I realized … read more
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Bio:I'm excited to be invited back to camp for another year! I had a great time designing experiments in lab and learning more physics last year. I can't wa… read more
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Bio:I didn't know exactly what physics was in elementary school except for a cool science term that people used in newspapers and TV shows. My first experie… read more
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Bio:Unlike most people here, as a kid, I was more naturally talented in the humanities, especially in terms of reading skills and learning languages. At tha… read more
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Bio:When I was in kindergarten, one of my first interests in math came when I overheard my mom explaining negative numbers to my older sister. My sister did… read more
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Bio:Like nearly all the other finalists, my interest in physics began with my love of mathematics. It's tempting to say that I was attracted to math because… read more
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Bio:I have always been interested in math. From a very young age I was enthralled by the pattern recognition problems which my parents gave me. Math fascina… read more
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Bio:I've always been inspired by discovery. I live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where during World War II, some of the greatest scientific minds in the world … read more
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Michael Winer
Traveling Team
Silver Spring, MD
Montgomery Blair High School
Teacher: James Schafer
Junior
Bio:Who am I? I'm a person who likes his textbooks long, his equations short, his bagels well-done, and his meat medium-rare. I am one of the happiest peopl… read more
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Bio:My grandmother, once a math teacher, instilled in me an interest in math. To challenge myself, I began participating in contests such as MATHCOUNTS and … read more
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Bio:Here's a welcome surprise - my first task as part of the 2014 Physics Team is not to do physics but to write in coherent English, something that as a se… read more
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Bio:I've always been passionate about astronomy. As a kid, I peppered visits to the planetarium with questions about the moons of Jupiter and the Voyager sp… read more
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Bio:Back when I was a freshman, I wanted to be a lawyer. Pursuing STEM was far from my mind. I was only merely "decent" at math.
But I soon found I h… read more
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