High school students win honors at Math Day
Released: November 06, 2009
TOPEKA – Teams of students representing Washburn Rural High, Baldwin High and Maur Hill-Mount Academy, Atchison, won first place honors in their respective class designations at the recent 2009 Math Day competition at Washburn University.
Participating in the event were 159 students from 16 Kansas high schools, with awards determined on the basis of scores earned in a competitive examination.
Samuel Ho, a senior at Washburn Rural High School, earned the top score on the placement test.
Winners of team awards were:
Class 5A & 6A:
First place: Washburn Rural High (team members Samuel Ho, Hyunjee Kwak and Dylan Davis)
Second place: Topeka High (team members David Wang, Edward Collazo and Katherine Ebeling)
Class 4A:
First place: Baldwin High (team members Myeong Jeong, Brian Lamoreux and Allison Howard)
Second place: Hayden High (team members Sarah Keffer, James Doyle and Matthew McNary)
Class 1A, 2A & 3A:
First place: Maur Hill-Mount Academy, Atchison (team members Danhao Ma, Huanhe Dong and Benquing Bai)
Second place: Atchison County Community High (team members Trevor Lutz, Riley Hundley and Emily Warriner)
Winners of individual awards were:
First place, senior: Samuel Ho, Washburn Rural High
Second place, senior: Danhao Ma, Maur Hill-Mount Academy
Third place, senior: Huanhe Dong, Maur Hill-Mount Academy
First place, non-senior: David Wang, Topeka High
Second place, non-senior: Myeong Jeong, Baldwin High
Third place, non-senior: Meixi Wang, Lawrence Free State
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