Steven Raphael '20 Wins National Merit Scholarship

In addition to being a National Merit Scholarship winner, Steven is a Student Government representative, a Math Clinic Assistant, and plays the trumpet in the Concert and Jazz bands. For his senior project, he created and is teaching a course called "Introduction to Computer Programming using Python" to a group of Roeper Middle School students. Steven plans to attend MIT in the fall where he will study Computer Science. 

 

His other accomplishments include:

- 1st place winner (3-way tie) of the 2019 Michigan Math Prize Competition 

 

- Member of the Michigan All-Stars Math Team which participates in high school math competitions around the country. This season the team placed:

    - 2nd overall at the 2020 Harvard-MIT Math Tournament

    - 3rd overall at the 2020 Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Math Competition

    - 4th overall at the 2019 Princeton University Math Competition

 

- 2020 American Mathematics Competition Distinguished Honor Roll

 

- 2019 College Board AP Scholar with Distinction

 

- 1st Place Winner of The American Mathematical Society's "Who Wants To Be a Mathematician" 2019 regional game

 

- 2019 USA Physics Olympiad - Silver Medal

 

- 2019 USA Computing Olympiad - Platinum Division

 

- 2018 Robofest World Championship - 1st Place Senior Division Team

 

- 2018 Math Olympiad Summer Program (MOP) attendee at Carnegie Mellon University

Thank you, Steven, for representing Roeper in in so many arenas and in such a distinquished way!