A team of “mathletes” from Winburn Middle School won first place in the local MATHCOUNTS on Feb. 20 at the University of Kentucky, where 18 area schools participated in bee-style contests. The top-scoring individual and recipient of a full-tuition, four-year scholarship offer from UK and a $1,000 scholarship offer from Western Kentucky University was Jason Wang of Beaumont Middle School. Jason also received a $500 scholarship from Kentucky MATHCOUNTS.
The top three teams move on to this spring’s state competition:
- Winburn – William Ding, Lohith Tummala, Dylan Li, and Lynn Ye;
- Beaumont – Jason Wang, David Manche, Mohammad Rashad, and Fernando Macchiavello;
- Tates Creek – David Vulakh, Nicholas Clevenger, Ashley Su, and Rohan Rauch.
Several individuals from Fayette County Public Schools also advance: Joey Ilagan and Noah Katz of Tates Creek, Isaac Martin of SCAPA at Bluegrass, and Ayush Kumar and Brian She of Winburn.
The state MATHCOUNTS is slated for March 12 at the Clarion Hotel in Lexington. There, the top four individual scorers will be offered full-tuition, four-year scholarships to UK or the University of Louisville, and will move on to the Raytheon MATHCOUNTS national competition May 8 in Washington, D.C. Students who place 5th through 10th at state will receive a tuition scholarship of $1,500 per year to either UK or U of L.
The local contest was sponsored by the Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers’ Bluegrass Chapter, GRW Engineers, HDR Engineering, Palmer Engineering, Thelen Associates, UK, and WKU. Winners at participating FCPS schools included: Beaumont – Jason Wang; Carter G. Woodson – Caleb Mensah; Crawford – Michael Fraley; Edythe J. Hayes – Nathaniel Ainslie; Jessie Clark – Jonathan Goshima; Leestown – Hunter Abshire; LTMS – Caleb Hunley; Morton – Dong-Yun Kim; SCAPA – Isaac Martin; Southern – Roshawn Apreti; Tates Creek – David Vulakh; and Winburn – William Ding.
For questions, contact Natalee Feese in FCPS.