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2025-2026 Champions
1st Place
Disciples of
Lhopital
Stevenson High School
Lincolnshire, IL
Atrey Iyer
Likhith Nimmanapalli
Hemanth Samayamantri
Coach: Paul Kim
2nd Place
Blue Leaf
Labs
Monta Vista High School
Cupertino, CA
Rohan Agarwal
Coach: Rishi Agarwal
3rd Place
Kolmogorov
Crew
Mission San Jose High School
Fremont, CA
Caleb Ma
Veer Mahajan
Aditya Ojha
Aditya Palit
Aashrith Yedavalli
Coach: Ai-Chen Liu
4th Place
DuPont Manual
Rams 1
DuPont Manual High School
Louisville, KY
Samuel Kingston
Sriram Achaththekoot
Edward Kim
Vishwaa Kannan
Aiden Gie
Coach: Jesudoss Kingston
2024-2025 Champions
1st Place
The Unit
Vector
Stevenson High School
Lincolnshire, IL
Shreyas Dandavate
Coach: Ken Heard
2nd Place
Pose
28
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Birmingham, AL
Dania Alzoubi
Harini Chakilam
Srihansi Sagi
Monisha Bommu
Prisha Sharma
Coach: Cecil Flournoy
3rd Place
DVS
1
Da Vinci Schools
El Segundo, CA
Zirak Engineer
Gabriel Chavez
Benjamin Chan
Calliope Chan
Coach: Justin Mitchell
4th Place
Da Two
Bananas
Ward Melville Senior High School
East Setauket, NY
Amanda Liang
Sarah Wu
Coach: Jie Yang
2023-2024 Champions
1st Place
Team
Calc
Stevenson High School
Lincolnshire, IL
Diana Tang
Qi Zhang
Coach: Qin Zhao
2nd Place
Team
JALA
Stevenson High School
Lincolnshire, IL
Lillian Wang
Jaden Chen
Audrey Hong
Aaroh Tak
Coach: Paul Kim
3rd Place
TOT
Nuclear
Newton North High School
Newton, MA
Karina Chung
Maya Figelman
Avnish Kumar
Davis Rattanavijai
Tsubasa Tamura
Coach: Michele MacDonald
4th Place
Risky
Business
Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science
Worcester, MA
Sophia Caramanica
Anthony DeRosa
Derek Desrosiers
Lindsey Paradise
Heidy Rodriguez
Coach: Kristen Burns
2022-2023 Champions
1st Place
Space
Junk
New Trier High School
Winnetka, IL
Julia Hudson
Coach: Hoyt Hudson
2nd Place
Memphis University School
Memphis Univ School
Memphis, TN
Amar Kanakamedala
Jeffrey Liu
Evan Wu
Henry Yu
Lou Zhou
Coach: Steve Gadbois
3rd Place
SC Data
Raider 3
Silver Creek HS
San Jose, CA
Abhinav Gorrepati
Shreyans Jain
Sarthak Jain
Vinay Singamsetty
Ryan Tabatabai
Coach: Imani Butler
4th Place
Team
11990
Stevenson HS
Lincolnshire, IL
Tyler Li
Alex Lin
Kevin Shen
Alexander Wang
Coach: Yi Yang
2021-2022 Champions
1st Place
The Supermodel-ers
Stevenson HS
Lincolnshire, IL
Jack Chen
Collin Fan
Aadit Juneja
Aayush Kashyap
Nathan Ma
Coach: Paul Kim
2nd Place
Team
Voyager
Mission Hills HS
San Marcos, CA
Ashwin Bardhwaj
Coach: Suresh Bardhwaj
3rd Place
Monte Carlo
Jello
Montgomery Blair HS
Silver Spring, MD
Aditya Chattopadhyay
Philip Guo
Jihwan Kim
Jason Liu
Dhruv Pai
Coach: David Stein
4th Place
The
Alexandrians
Thomas Jefferson HS
Alexandria, VA
Anand Advani
Shyla Bisht
Alyssa Gorbaneva
Owen Rollins
Lillian Sun
Coach: Aneel Advani
2020-2021 Champions
1st Place
Walter Payton
Team 2
Walter Payton College Prep
Chicago, IL
Lizzie Kujawa
Kristen Si
Rose Thorstenson
Andre Nandi
Coach: Scott Galson
2nd Place
Team
Gators
Castilleja School
Palo Alto, CA
Anushka Srinivasan
Reva Tagare
Siona Tagare
Coach: Kyle Barriger
3rd Place
Team
Westlake
Westlake City Schools
Westlake, OH
Jacob Rintamaki
Coach: Tracy Sidloski
4th Place
Community
AI
DuPont Manual High
Louisville, KY
Shreyas Kar
Shraman Kar
Coach: Sudip Kar
2019-2020 Champions
1st Place
Team
Atoms
High Technology HS
Lincroft, NJ
Gustav Hansen
Emily Jiang
Jason Yan
Coach: Ellen Leblanc
2nd Place
Team
10% Rule
Monta Vista High School
Cupertino, CA
Parth Asawa
Brandon Guo
Richard Liu
Eric Zhang
Coach: Joe Kim
3rd Place
Team
SANA
Whitney High School
Cerritos, CA
Amrita Vinjamury
Anastacia Son
Shravani Khisti
Nafeesa Karim
Coach: Stephanie Machado
4th Place
Team
Math Modeling
Mountain View HS
Mountain View, CA
Tony Xin
Katherine Wang
Henry Wang
Arjun Patrawala
Coach: Jesse Hunt
2018-2019 Champions
1st Place
LAHS
Team A
Los Altos High School
Los Altos, CA
Rushil Arora
Karina Halevy
Joshua Hejna
Shawn Huang
Maxwell Liu
Coach: Scott Murray
2nd Place
MLWGS
Team 7
Maggie L. Walker GS
Richmond, VA
Henry Coates
Nikhil Brahmapuram
Russell Graviet
Shivani Kundalia
Madoc Kimball
Coach: Dickson Benesh
3rd Place
MLWGS
Team 6
Maggie L. Walker GS
Richmond, VA
Mary Caroline Heinen
Ryan Kaplan
Derek Chen
Thomas Blue
Nicolas Ferree
Coach: Dickson Benesh
4th Place
APEX
Team 3
Waukee APEX
Waukee, IA
Rebecca Heidt
Coach: Jesse Hunt
2017-2018 Champions
1st Place
Six Sigma
Modelers
NC Schl for Science & Math
Durham, NC
Sam Ferguson
Abhhijit Gupta
Julia Wang
Coach: Jennie Hu
2nd Place
Team
Gators
Castilleja School
Palo Alto, CA
Reese Ketsdever
Niav Layton
Coach: Kyle Barriger
3rd Place
Team
Wheatley
The Wheatley School
Old Westbury, NY
John Li
Vedant Signh
Brandon Zhu
Coach: Robert Teseo
4th Place
Team
Alpha
Waukee APEX
Waukee, IA
Quinn Schroeder
Skye Seo
Coach: Jesse Hunt
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