The team included Charlie Anderson, Nicole White, Tanner Wilson, Ethan Cox and Connor Sullivan.

CANTON -- Fifty-seven students from 12 regional high schools participated in St. Lawrence University’s 71st annual Pi Mu Epsilon Interscholastic Mathematics Contest, on March 25.

The Parishville-Hopkinton Central School team took the top spot this year, winning the Pi Mu Epsilon cup. The team included Charlie Anderson, Nicole White, Tanner Wilson, Ethan Cox and Connor Sullivan. White also earned second place in the senior competition.

The winner of the individual gold medal was Matt Ramm, a junior from Ogdensburg Free Academy. The silver went to Tanner Wilson, a junior from Parishville-Hopkinton Central School, and the bronze went to Ryan Tober, a senior from Franklin Academy in Malone.

Each school has the opportunity to send teams of up to five students. Students take an individual exam then work together as teams on a set of math problems.

St. Lawrence University students who are members of the Pi Mu Epsilon honorary society proctor and help grade the exams, so that results can be announced when teams return from having dinner at the University’s Dana Dining Center. Each team’s score depends on the top three scorers from a school in addition to the points earned in the team portion of the exam.

The annual contest is sponsored each year by St. Lawrence's Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, together with the campus chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honorary society.

Winners who later decide to attend St. Lawrence University are eligible to receive the Robert G. Cromie scholarship. The scholarship, named after a former math faculty member, is awarded to the top senior, while other scholarships are available for the top three non-seniors.