WHS Math is Cool team places 4th

Nearly 500 students from around the state competed in the Math is Cool on October 21st in Spokane.  

Eight students from Wenatchee High School competed:Mackenzie Mahon, Teddy Thorson, Chase Bozett, Curtis Broberg, Devyn Walter, Arnie Techavimol, Mikael Hernandez, and Jordan Doerr.  

Chase Bozett (on the left) placed 6th in the precalculus group and Teddy Thorson (on the right) placed 7th!  Also, our 9-10th grade team placed fourth overall in their division.

"Math is Cool" competitions include both individual and team events. Individual events include completion of open-ended and multiple choice problem sets. Team events include open-ended problem sets, relays, pressure rounds, mental math and college bowl rounds. 

Math teacher Mallory Neher is the faculty advisor to the team. Physics teacherTodd Busse helped chaperone the trip for the 2nd year.

 Math is Cool is part of the "Academics are Cool" program which began in the spring of 1996 when Gregg Sampson, a mathematics teacher at Lewis & Clark High School (LCHS), organized a mathematics competition for sixth grade students in the Spokane area. He and members of the LCHS Math Team organized the events, wrote the competition items and implemented the competition at LCHS. The following school year (1996/1997), the competition was expanded to grades 4-12.