Submitted by The Olympia School District
Local students from South Sound high schools scored high during the state championship round of a national math tournament on April 12, with the majority qualifying for the national tournament, to be held May 16 in Kansas City.
Olympia High School won the meet in terms of overall team scores, making them the 2014 Washington State Math Meet Champions.
“The overwhelming success of the students in this round of the math meet is a wonderful thing,” said Brian Walter, math faculty at Evergreen and one of the organizers of the event. “We’re delighted some local students will go ahead and compete in Kansas City at the highest level.”
The Evergreen State College, which offers a broad range of math programs, hosted the state championship round of the mathleague.org national high school math competition. Twenty students from Olympia, River Ridge, North Thurston, Henry Foss, and Capital high schools in the South Sound area competed, with fourteen qualifying for the nationals.
The meet was by invitation only, open to those students who qualified in the earlier tournament held at Evergreen last fall.
Here are the results of the meet:
1st place overall team: Olympia HS
2nd place overall team: Henry Foss HS
3rd place overall team: North Thurston HS
1st place Freshman/Sophomore team: Olympia HS
2nd place Freshman/Sophomore team: Henry Foss HS
3rd place Freshman/Sophomore team: North Thurston HS
1st place overall individual: Ernest Gu, Olympia HS
2nd place overall individual: Min Choi, Olympia HS
3rd place overall individual: Henry Hua, Henry Foss HS
12th grade – 1st place: Abby Santos, River Ridge HS
12th grade – 2nd place: Liam Lloyd, Olympia HS
12th grade – 3rd place: Hiep Can, Henry Foss HS
11th grade – 1st place: Ernest Gu, Olympia HS
11th grade – 2nd place: Min Choi, Olympia HS
11th grade – 3rd place: Dan Tran, North Thurston HS
10th grade – 1st place: Henry Hua, Henry Foss HS
10th grade – 2nd place: Daniel Grimm, North Thurston HS
10th grade – 3rd place: Theodore Jeremy Ong, Olympia HS
9th grade – 1st place: Warren Gu, Olympia HS
9th grade – 2nd place: Breanna Smith, River Ridge HS
9th grade – 3rd place: Morgan Wohosky, River Ridge HS
