About Us

The Iowa City Math Circle is a program that brings together motivated students from elementary to high school to discuss and explore math and coding outside of the classroom. Snacks will be provided during every camp session. Students who want to broaden their math and coding skills can join our instructors (at no cost!) for lots of fun and learning this summer!

Math Camps

Two weeks of challenging problem solving, designed to prepare students for competitive math.

Coding Camps

Two weeks of hands-on coding experiences, teaching students the basics of Java, and resulting in a fun personalized project.

Math Materials

Five years worth of study materials for math competitions, all available for free.

Meet Our Team

Summer 2025

Shannon Chen

Co-Organizer

Shannon is a rising Junior at West High School. She's been participating in competition math since elementary school. She's a part of her school orchestra and show choir. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her dog.

Catherine Xu

MATH

Catherine Xu will be a senior at West High this fall. She is a 2x MathCounts Nationals Qualifier, 2x JMO Qualifier, 1x USAMO Qualifier, and has qualified for AIME 4x. When not doing math, she enjoys running or solving puzzles.

Alex Yao

CODING

Alex is a student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is enthusiastic about open-source software, robotics, cybersecurity, and more. Alex enjoys programming and playing the clarinet.

Aiden Zhang

Math

Aiden is a rising junior at West High. Outside math, he enjoys distance running, playing cello, and clobbering his friends in chess.

Mike Zeng

Coding

Konnon Chen

Coding

Sonya Zhu

Assistant

Rhianna Yang

Web Designer

Rhianna will be a sophomore this fall at West High School. She is going to be West Side Story print edition designer. She enjoys playing the flute, coding on Scratch, drawing, and reading books.

Former Team Members

Reece Yang

Instructor , Co-founder

Ananth Shyamal

Instructor , Co-founder

Divya Shyamal

Instructor, Co-founder

Kevin Yang

Course developer

Flora Zhu

Instructor

Tina Hong

Instructor

Amit Bhatt

Instructor

Erin Chen

Instructor

Blog

Recent posts by the Iowa City Math Circle

Thank you for a great first ICMT!

Congratulations to everyone that participated! The problems and solutions are now all available on our website. We will email all competitors certificates of participation shortly. Book award winners will receive their printed copies of the Read more…