MATHCOUNTS
Students Win Nevada Math Competition
Plenium Builders Good Works Committee is proud to sponsor the competition.
(Reno, March 10th) — A team of middle school Mathletes® from Davidson Academy in Reno took top honors in the team competition at the Nevada State MATHCOUNTS® Competition. The top individual was Julian Kuang, an eighth grader also from Davidson Academy in Reno.
The winning team was from Davidson Academy in Reno led by coach Carol Smith-Nichols from Davidson Academy in Reno. The Second-Place team was from Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas Windmill in Las Vegas.
The top four individuals will represent Nevada at the 2024 Raytheon Technologies MATHCOUNTS National Competition in Washington D.C. May 11-13, 2024. The four Nevada national mathletes are Julian Kuang from Davidson Academy in Reno, Maxwell Tsai from Davidson Academy Online - Las Vegas, Culhan Ma from Tao Homeschool – Las Vegas, and another student from The Adelson School in Las Vegas.
More than 100,000 students across the U.S. participate each year in the MATHCOUNTS Competition Series, a national math competition that aims to build confidence and problem-solving skills for students who participate. Programs like MATHCOUNTS are critical to preparing students to succeed in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers of the future.
The Northern Nevada MATHCOUNTS program is sponsored by Wood Rodgers, Plenium Builders, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Comstock Section, Nevada MATH, the Society of Women Engineers – Sierra Nevada Section, The Associated General Contractors Reno Chapter, and the National Society of Professional Engineers Nevada. Leadership at the local levels of the MATHCOUNTS Competition Series is provided by members of the Society of Women Engineers Sierra Nevada Section.
The National Sponsors of MATHCOUNTS Foundation are RTX, U.S. Department of Defense STEM, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman Foundation, the National Society of Professional Engineers, 3Mgives, Texas Instruments Incorporated and Art of Problem Solving. MATHCOUNTS was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and CNA Insurance.
About MATHCOUNTS Foundation:
MATHCOUNTS is a nonprofit organization that strives to engage middle school students of all ability and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs, in order to expand their academic and professional opportunities. Middle school students exist at a critical juncture in which their love for mathematics must be nurtured, or their fear of mathematics must be overcome. For more than 30 years, MATHCOUNTS has provided free, high-quality resources to educators and enriching, extracurricular opportunities to students to lay a foundation for future success. Materials and information are available at www.mathcounts.org. Follow @MATHCOUNTS on Twitter.
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