Mission Math Team
For the 2025-2026 year
Juntian Deng, President
Juntian is a senior at Skyline High School. He has competed in Mathcounts, placing 2nd in Utah in 2022 and advancing to the national competition. He has also participated in the AMC, AIME, ARML, Purple Comet, and SMT. Aside from competition math, Juntian enjoys playing basketball, swimming, programming, playing piano, and playing video games.
Sreeram Patcha, CEO
Sreeram is a junior at Skyline High School. He started competing in math competitions in seventh grade and has competed in competitions like Mathcounts, making the state competition twice, and the AMC’s. Apart from math, he enjoys playing tennis and playing video games.
Neil Raman, CTO, Director of Outreach
Neil is a junior at West High School. He has participated in math competitions such as AMC 8/10, Mathcounts, where he has qualified for state, and competitions through Mission Math. Outside of math, he enjoys competing in Science Olympiad, Science Fair, swimming, track, cross country, as well as HOSA, DECA, and FBLA, where he has qualified for nationals multiple times.
Agatha Hunnicutt, VP of Media Production
Agatha is a junior at West High School and has participated in math competitions since 5th grade. She has placed 1st in District Mathcounts and been on her school Mathcounts team 3 years in a row, becoming the 2nd place State team in 2023. She was on the AMC 8 National Honor Roll twice and scored in the top 1% on the Utah State Math Competition junior exam. Besides math, Agatha loves crocheting, watching TV shows, and spending time with friends.
Catriona Kawamoto, Director of Outreach
Catriona is a junior at the Waterford School. She has participated in math competitions since 5th grade including the AMC 8, AMC 108, and Mathcounts, where she reached the state level twice. Aside from math, she enjoys Science Olympiad and HOSA, where she has reached state and national recognition. In her free time, Catriona enjoys basketball, playing viola and jazz guitar, and ethics.
Lavanya Mohnani, CTO, Women in STEM Camp President, VP of Media Production
Lavanya is currently a junior at Hillcrest High School. A distinguished competitor on the AMC 8 and 10, she enjoys competition math, solving problems, and more importantly, sharing her love of math and STEM to young students in her local community. Besides math, Lavanya enjoys learning and practicing various forms of dance, and spending time with friends and family.
Kevin Ying, VP of Winter Competition
Kevin Ying is a junior at Skyline High School. He has competed in many math competitions such as the AMC 8 and 10, Mathcounts, ARML, the SMT, and the Purple Comet. He qualified for Mathcounts Nationals in 2023 as well as getting 8th in the state in 2022. He has made honor roll on the AMC 8 several times and he made the honor roll on the Stanford Math Tournament (SMT) in 2023. Aside from math Kevin enjoys playing tennis and participating in debate.
Atharv Khemka, VP of Winter Competition
Atharv is a sophomore at West High School. He has participated in various math competitions like Mathcounts, AMC 8/10, Utah State Math, Math Kangaroo, UMO, SMT, Purple Comet, ARML, and Mission Math. In 2023, he placed first at the district and chapter Mathcounts competition and was on the 2nd place team. He also placed at the 2024 Utah State Math Contest. Atharv also enjoys participating in science fair and has placed top 5 at USEF in Biology & Microbiology. Other than math, he loves swimming, reading and writing fantasy fiction, piano, policy debate, and hanging out with his friends.
Hailey Park, VP of Spring Competition
Hailey Park is a sophomore at Skyline High School. She started competition math in 6th grade. She’s competed in various math competitions such as Mathcounts, AMC’s, Utah State Math Contest, and Math Kangaroo. She qualified for Mathcounts Nationals in 2023 and placed top-5 twice in the Utah State Math Contest. In her free time, she enjoys playing violin and golf.
Andre Angeles, VP of Spring Competition
​Andre is currently a sophomore at West High School. He started competition math in 6th grade with Mathcounts and has competed in multiple competitions since then such as AMC8, AMC10, Utah Math Olympiad, ARML Local, and more. His successes include Top 5% for AMC8, reaching Mathcounts state, and 2nd at Mission Math’s 2024 Spring Competition. In his free time, he enjoys running, playing chess, listening to music and learning languages.
Rishi Patcha, VP of Summer Camp
Rishi is a senior at Skyline High School. He has competed in AMC 8, which he has made honor roll twice, Mathcounts, which he was on the second place team in state, and Snow College math contest.
Yicheng Deng, VP of Summer Camp
Yicheng is a sophomore at Skyline High School. He has competed at Mathcounts state multiple times and has competed in multiple other math competitions such as the AMC 8 and 10, ARML, and SMT. Aside from math he also enjoys playing tennis, playing basketball, programming, and video games.
Tanish Shetty, VP of Math Circle
Tanish Shetty is a sophomore at West High School. He has excelled in many prestigious math competitions like HMMT, Stanford Math Tournament including being part of the ARML team in 2024 and qualifying for AIME in grade 8. He is a 2x National MATHCOUNTS qualifier and a 2x Top 300 finalist in the Thermofisher/Broadcom Science Fair. He also enjoys coding and is in the USACO Silver division. Besides that, he also enjoys ultimate frisbee, pickleball, stock analysis , and tasting different hot sauces!
Varun Agarwal, VP of Math Circle
Varun Agarwal is currently a sophomore at West High School. He has participated in MathCounts and AMC 10. Outside of competition math, he does Science Olympiad, which he has made the state team in multiple times, and Debate, where he competes in Policy, as well as HOSA and FBLA, where he has placed first at state and qualified for Nationals. Outside of these competitions, Varun enjoys coding and doing hackathons as a part of his school's Coding Club, hiking, and playing games with his brother.
Shiva Murugappan, VP of Tutoring
Shiva is currently a sophomore at Hillcrest High school. In 7th grade he started doing Mathcounts and Mission Math competitions, transitioning to the AMC 8 and the AMC 10. Tutoring and helping others learn math are some of his favorite ways to stay involved with math outside of competitions. Other than math, Shiva enjoys playing Minecraft, spending time with his dog, and playing tennis and pickleball with his friends.
Wilson St. Martin
​Wilson is a senior at Hillcrest High School. He competed in Mathcounts, reaching state twice and nationals this last year in 2022. Additionally, he competed in the AMC 8, getting the honor roll and also going to represent Utah in the ARML contest. Aside from competition mathematics, he also is planning to join FIRST robotics competitions and debate. He enjoys all of these activities and others such as rock climbing, music, other STEM activities, and playing video games.
Ryan Li
Ryan Li is a senior at Skyline High School. He has competed in a wide selection of math competitions such as the AMC 8 and AMC10, Mathleague, Mathcounts, and ARML. Ryan has qualified for Mathleague Nationals before and has placed in state a few times. He has made honor roll on the AMC 8 multiple times. Disregarding math, some activities that he enjoys are all different types of racket sports, especially tennis, playing chess, violin, playing games, and trying out different activities.
Ananya Pallinti
Ananya is a sophomore at West High School and has been introduced to math from a young age. She has a prominent passion for math which has led her to compete in various math competitions, such as State Math Competition, AMC, MATHCOUNTS, Mission Math, and more! Apart from math, she really enjoys science, and competes in Science Fair and Science Olympiad. She enjoys taking part of clubs at her school such as HOSA, Biology Club, Chemistry Club and more!
Kaya Akkor
Kaya is a junior at Rowland Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has participated in competitions since 3rd grade including Mathcounts, AMC 8 and AMC 10. In addition, he has entered several competitions that were run by Mission Math Utah. Alongside math, some of his hobbies consist of tennis, video games, and chess.
Kethan Reddy
Kethan is a freshman at Hillcrest High School. He has competed in math competitions such as MATHCOUNTS, AMC 8, AMC 10, NSF, and Math Kangaroo. He also has participated and received recognition in many science competitions, including the University of Utah Science and Engineering Fair, where many of his projects focus on helping the environment. Outside of math and science, Kethan enjoys playing basketball, riding his bike, and learning about cars.
Mary Fedorov
Mary Fedorov is a freshman at Hillcrest High School. She has participated in many math and science competitions, including AMC8/10, MathCounts, Berkely Mini Math Tournament, North South Regional Contests, and Math Kangaroo. In AMC8 2025, she achieved the Maryam Mirzhakhani Certificate of Excellence. She placed first in her category at the University of Utah Science and Engineering Fair and in the 2025 Math Kangaroo. Besides math and science, Mary enjoys computer programming, reading, and fishing.
Adam Deng
Adam is a freshman at the Waterford School. He has participated in many math competitions including the AMC8, AMC10, Mathcounts, and Mission Math competitions. He has made Distinguished Honor Roll on the AMC8, Honor Roll on the AMC10, won first at a Mission Math competition, and was on the Utah Mathcounts Nationals team when they won 4th place. Aside from math, Adam enjoys playing golf, playing the violin, coding, traveling to different places, and playing video games.
Adwita Mandiwal
Adwita Mandiwal is a freshman at West High School. She has been involved with math and STEM since a young age, and has had success in many math competitions, including the AMCs, ARML, MATHCOUNTS, AIME, HMMT, SMT, and more. She placed top 10 at Mathcounts State for 3 years, coming 5th in 2025. She qualified for the AIME in 7th grade and made the honor roll for the AMC 8 3 times. She has also had success at science fair, qualifying for the Thermofisher JIC. Her interests branch beyond math, and she loves to run, read, debate, and write poetry.
Pranav Bagirathan
Pranav Bagirathan is a freshman at Hillcrest High School. He has participated in math and science competitions like AMC 8, Math Kangaroo, Mathcounts, Berkeley Math Tournament and NSF, competing at both state and national levels. Pranav's passion for problem-solving extends to science, where he has won the USEF science fair at the state level and qualified for the Thermofisher competition multiple times. Outside of academics, Pranav enjoys building Lego architecture and playing piano to Bollywood dance, Carnatic music, table tennis, and chess.
Aashita Mandiwal
Aashita is a freshman at West High School. She has participated in many math competitions, including the AMCs, AIME, ARML, HMMT, SMT, BMT, UMO, and more. In addition, she qualified for the USAJMO in eighth grade and is a 3x MATHCOUNTS National qualifier, ranking 14th nationally in 2024. She has also qualified for the G2 Math Summer Program and the Thermofisher JIC Top 300. Outside of math, Aashita loves crocheting, participating in debate and mock trial, playing basketball, running, and piano.