About Us

The Iowa City Math Circle is a program that brings together motivated students from middle school 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 in the 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 2026

Shannon Chen

Organizer

Shannon is a rising Senior 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.

Aiden Zhang

Math Head Instructor

Aiden is a rising senior at West High School. Outside math, he likes chess, cello and cross country in that order. And also eating, sleeping, and laying on the ground.

Maximilian Hing

Math Instructor, Coding Instructor

Maximilian Hing is a rising sophomore at West High School. Maximilian has been participating in math and science competitions since elementary school and teaching himself computer programming independently. In his free time, Maximilian likes to spend time with his brother and pets.

Tommy Gao

Math Instructor, Coding Instructor

Tommy Gao is a rising sophomore at West High School. He likes eating, sleeping, and laying on the ground.

Sharon Liao

Coding Instructor

Sharon is a rising senior at West High School. She has developed an interest in computer science through coding and learning several programming languages, including courses such as Harvard's CS50 and Berkeley's Data Structures courses. Outside of programming, you can also find her volunteering at the Iowa City Public Library, writing the next big news story for the West Side Story newspaper, and playing with her dog and little sister.

Rhianna Yang

Web Designer

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

Konnon Chen

Math Instructor, Coding Instructor

Former Team Members

Reece Yang

Instructor , Co-founder

Ananth Shyamal

Instructor , Co-founder

Divya Shyamal

Instructor, Co-founder

Kevin Yang

Course developer

Richard Yang

Organizer, Instructor

Richard studies at MIT. He has done math competitions since sixth grade, and physics olympiads since tenth grade. Richard enjoys running, rhythm games and model rocketry.

Alex Yao

Instructor

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.

Catherine Xu

Instructor

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.

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