The Britton-Hecla Mathcounts program recently participated in several Aberdeen area contests. The national middle school program is sponsored locally by the 3M corporation with engineers volunteering to organize and run the events.
Wednesday, Dec. 9 was the Holgate Countdown Competition for seventh and eighth graders. Teams were seeded one to four in a double elimination bracket. Ruthie Moeckly won her bracket, Chaz Vietor placed second, Jaelee Grupe placed fourth, and Noah Schuster placed fifth. Their team earned fifth place. Bo Micko placed fourth in his bracket in the seventh grade division. His teammates were Luke Bosse, Drew Heitmann, and Cayson Callazo.
At the Roncalli Invitational Contest Nov. 8, students did two different individual tests and a team test with the top individual scorers moving to the Countdown Round where both Grupe and Callazo ended up in ninth place. Lincoln Kilker, Baylee Bender, and Charles Schuller joined the other seventh and eighth graders in the competition there.
Four teams of sixth graders went to an introductory contest a few weeks ago at Holgate. Tanasia Tisher placed ninth in the countdown round. Other participants were Liam Peters, Talon Dinger, Blaydon Downs, Lillian Boyko, Mia Kilker, Avery Leonard, Alexis Bolzer, Yadid Ortega-Quezada, Easton Eimers, Jackson Medhaug, and Kylan Sasker.
