Registration for HMI 2026 is now open! The deadline is February 12th.
We had about 330 participants from 15 schools at HMI 2019. There were 58 competing teams and 1 non-competing team.
1st: Daniel Kim (Miller)
2nd: Angela Liu (Harker)
3rd: Leonardo Jia (Redwood)
4th: Jasper Elsley (Bret Harte)
5th: Skylar Mao (Redwood)
1st: Nikhil Mathihalli (Redwood)
2nd: Neel Kolhe (Miller)
3rd: Heidi Lu (Harker)
4th: Aniketh Tummala (Harker)
5th: William Zhang (Harker)
1st: Stephen Xia (Harker)
2nd: Lisa Fung (Redwood)
3rd: Arjun Barrett (Harker)
4th: Alex Lan (Harker)
5th: Kavan Doctor (Peterson)
1st: Harker 6D
Audrey Cheng, Juliana Li, Angela Liu, Katerina Matta, Kashish Priyam, Aarush Vailaya, Jonathan Xue
2nd: Miller 6F
Daniel Kim, Sasidh Kunapuli, Kevin Liu, Jiahe Lu, Andrew Luo, Annie Peng, Christine Zhou
3rd: Redwood 6L
Isha Agarwal, Hayden Fu, Kirby Fung, Leonardo Jia, Alan Lu, Alexander Lu, Skyler Mao
1st: Miller 7G
Neel Kohle, Anuj Chordia, Patrick Huang, Ruiqi Liu, Annabel Qin, Matthew Zhang, Ryan Zhou
2nd: Harker 7E
Emma Gao, Angelina Hu, Ansh Sheth, Julie Shi, Michelle Wei, Aniketh Tummala, William Zhang.
3rd: Redwood 7K
Sam Bai, Levana Lai, Nicole Lee, Dhruv Nemani, Nikhil Mathihalli
1st: Harker 8F
Arjun Barrett, Brian Chen, Amruta Dharmapurikar, Alex Lan, Krish Maniar, Stephen Xia, Annli Zhu
2nd: Coral Las Vegas 8D
Christopher Bao, Mason Graves, Parth Joshi, Edwin Ma, Sean O-Lea, Shenlone Wu
3rd: Miller 8H
Pranjal Chatterjee, Arushi Gupta, Edwin Law, Luke Li, Andrew Peng, Akshara Taraniganty, Daniel Wang
We asked the contestants to estimate the total number of googly eyes in the ‘HMI 2019’ sign.
With an estimate of 2596 googly eyes, Megan Brezlin from Peterson Middle School was the closest to the actual number of googly eyes, 2603.