Students win local "MATHCOUNTS" competition
Contact: Lisa Deffendall • First Posted: Monday, February 26, 2007
A team of middle school “mathletes” from Lexington Traditional Magnet Schoolwon first place at the local MATHCOUNTS competition. The top-scoring individual at the local competition and the winner of the $500 Kentucky MATHCOUNTS scholarship was Jay Li from Lexington Traditional Magnet School.
The names of students on the top three winning teams advancing to the state competition are:
First Place: Lexington Traditional Magnet School (coached by Betsy Rickenbacker and Keith Durham)
Jay Li
Sandy Huang
Michael Bowie
Sadik Shahidain
Second Place: Winburn Middle School (coached by Devin Onkst)
Timothy Cui
Roshan Palli
Taylor Mitchell
Minghuang Liu
Besides, the first-place individual, other individual competitors advancing to the state competition are:
Michael Druggan of Southern Middle School (coached by Janet Duff and Myra Marshall)
Idrees Kahloon of Lexington Traditional Magnet School (coached by Betsy Rickenbacker and Keith Durham)
Yuki Inoue of Beaumont Middle School (coached by Jerry Broyles)
Adam Suhl of The Lexington School (coached by Gregory Gunn)
Kevin Xie of Lexington Traditional Magnet School (coached by Betsy Rickenbacker and Keith Durham)
Lingtong Sun of Morton Middle School (coached by Paul Sprague)
These students will participate in the 24th State MATHCOUNTS Competition that will be held in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 31st, 2007.
The third and fourth-place teams were from Morton Middle School and Beaumont Middle School, respectively.
There were 110 Mathletes from 16 area Middle Schools competing for a $500 scholarship and advancement to the State competition in March.
At the state competition, the top four individual scorers are offered full-tuition, four-year scholarships to the University of Kentucky or the University of Louisville. They will each advance to the National MATHCOUNTS Competition that will be held in Dallas, Texas in May.
Students who place 5th through 10th at the state competition receive an annual tuition scholarship of $1,500 per year to either UK or U of L.
MATHCOUNTS is a nationwide program designed to improve math skills among U.S. middle-school students who are at a crucial stage in developing and sustaining math interest and ability.
The competition was sponsored locally by the Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers’ BluegrassChapter.
For more information about the Kentucky MATHCOUNTS program, contact:
Natalee M. Feese – Mathematics K-12
Fayette County Public Schools
(859) 699-1439
Or
Marcie Fisher- MATHCOUNTS State Coordinator
160 Democrat Drive
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Phone 800.455.5573; e-mail: marcie@kyengcenter.org
View the MATHCOUNTS website at: www.kyengcenter.org or http://mathcounts.org/