NYCIML

Dear coaches and students,

Welcome back to the NYCIML in 2010! Our new season is coming soon. The first Senior A and Senior B contests will be administered on Feb. 10. Please make sure that you receive the corresponding contests from our coordinators by emails. If you did not receive your contests yet, please contact us at exec@nyciml.org.

In addition, the results for last semester are done, feel free to check your scores through http://www.nyciml.org/contests/results/.

Good Luck!!

Webmaster
Huilin Wu

Dear Coaches and Students,

Final results for 2009 fall term in all divisions are almost done!! Updated results are post now. Please check them at http://www.nyciml.org/contests/results/.

As a reminder to coaches, if you did not submit your scores, please do so as soon as possible.

Hope you all have a great Christmas Holiday!

Huilin Wu
Webmaster

Dear Coaches,

As request, we have added a score format sample by email at http://www.nyciml.org/coaches/score-reporting/. If you are a new coach, please check it out for reference.

Also, the NYCIML old contests from Fall 1984 to Spring 1999 are ready to sell now. Please visit http://www.nyciml.org/contests/old-contests/ for our old contests purchase.

Thanks,
Huilin Wu
Webmaster

Dear Coaches,

The New York City Interscholastic Math League (NYCIML) will be sponsoring its annual citywide High School math team coaches’ training session at Stuyvesant High School (Room 407) on Professional Development Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2009. We would like to invite all high school principals and assistant principals of mathematics in schools that have math teams or are considering the formation of such a team to send their math team coach(es) to this series of workshops on Problem Solving. The materials provided will be valuable resources for the teachers in your department and will include problems and strategies applicable to all levels of mathematics, specifically, grades 9 – 12. There will be special presentations on starting a math team. Experienced coaches will have workshops on special topics to be taught to the math team.

If you will be sending one or more people to the November 3rd professional development session, please let us know by e-mail at exec@nyciml.org and indicate the number of people that will be attending. Please respond by Friday, October 23, 2009.

Date: Tuesday, November 3rd
Time: Breakfast will be served at 8:15 AM and workshops will begin promptly at 8:45 AM.
Location: Stuyvesant High School; 345 Chambers St. New York, NY 10282 (Rooms: 403, 405, 407)

We hope to see you there!

Thanks,
Eva Chan and Kevin Hwang
NYCIML Co-Presidents

Dear Coaches,

We are proud to introduce to you two new features coming out of our labs:

Dvision Talk: This is the place where you can communicate with coordinators and other coaches without using e-mail.  Everyone can read but account at nyciml.org is required to post comment.  Accounts have been set up for all coaches whose teams are registered with NYCIML for 2009-10 and whose registration included valid coach email and phone number.

Login Credentials

Your username is your first and last name written in lower-case without middle name or punctuation.
e.g., IF your name is Tim A. The’Beaver
THEN your username is timthebeaver

Your password is your username and the last 4 digits of your home phone number (if no home phone was provided at registration, use school phone)
e.g., IF your username is timthebeaver and your home phone is 718-000-1717
THEN your password is timthebeaver1717

If you have any questions regarding your login credentials or you are unable to log in, please contact us for technical support at webmaster@nyciml.org.

Old Contests: This is the place where you can download old contests you purchased from us.  Your Division Talk account will be granted access to the downloads once we have verified your purchase.

Cheers,
Kam

Kam Chuen Chan
Webmaster

Dear Coaches,

Welcome back to school! Remember the absolutely quiet classroom with everyone concentrating on his/her own question sheets? Did you see your students sweat when you shouted “15 seconds remain”? Did you hear them scream when you wrote the answers on the board and they forgot to simplify their answers? Have you decided who’s on the team this year? We hope that you are as excited as we are about the new contest season. Please don’t forget to register online by Monday, 9/21 and send the check to our Treasurer Justin Ma.

To improve efficiency and contest security, all contest material will be sent out via email with .pdf attachments on Sunday before the actual contest date.

Sample contest is now available on our website (www.nyciml.org) for your reference. Starting from last spring, we have implemented the fee waiver policy for new schools. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you are interested in joining us and would like to know more about the fee waiver policy.

We are looking forward to working with you and your students this year and we wish you all the best in the upcoming contest season!

Thanks,
Eva Chan and Kevin Hwang
NYCIML Co-President 2009-2010

Dear Coaches and Students,

Here is a good news for you. We now offer FREE contest samples from Spring 2006 to Fall 2007 on our website. Please check them out at   http://www.nyciml.org/coaches/contest-samples/.

In order to increase the interaction between you and our coordinators, we have set up specific email account for each coordinator. If you have any questions or comments regarding a specific division, you can send emails directly to the corresponding coordinator. For coordinators’ respective email addresses, please see “Coordinator Info” at http://www.nyciml.org/coaches/coordinator-information/.

Huilin Wu
Webmaster

Dear Students and Coaches,

In order to improve your experience at NYCIML.org, we are currently renovating our website. In particular, two new features are proposed:

1. An interactive score uploading page that meets the following criteria:
   • allows coaches to upload scores and manage team rosters
   • saves team names and student names for easier access
   • automatically posts uploaded scores within 24 hours to be viewed
2. A separate discussion page for each division that allows coaches and students to directly communicate with coordinators of their respective divisions

Please know that we greatly value your comments and suggestions.  Feel free to contact us at any time by email.

Thanks,
Kam Chuen Chan
Webmaster

Dear Math Team Coaches,

Thank you for your enthusiasm in participating New York City Interscholastic Math League last year. Now, the registration for the 2009-2010 season is open, please access at http://www.nyciml.org/contests/registration/ for your new registration.

To your notices, the rules for our contests have been changed, please check them out in “Division Structure and Problem Difficulty” and “Eligibility of Students and Number of Awards” at: http://www.nyciml.org/contests/rules/.

Last spring, we sent out Senior A contests by emails, and it was a successful trial for us. Therefore, in order to make the process more convenient, we are planing to send out the contest packets in all divisions by emails from this year. If you don’t like to receive contests by emails, please inform us via exec@nyciml.org after your registration.

On Behalf of The NYCIML Executive Committee,
Huilin Wu

To all rising college freshmen of the NYCIML,

Congratulations! You will be off to college in just a few months. We’d like to take this moment to invite you to join us, college students as well, in managing this league. What your position in the Executive Committee entails would be varied: from interacting with students of the league like myself to coordinating with coaches and question writers like Jae or Huilin, this year’s other freshmen members of the NYCIML. If you are interested in a great opportunity to interact with other alumns of the league and give back to this organization, please let your coach know.

Thanks,
Eliot Kim