ADDING PRESTIGE MIDDLE-SCHOOL MATH WIZARDS TRIUMPH.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer PALMDALE - Eighth-graders from Tropico Middle School and Desert Junior-Senior High took top honors at the 14th annual Junior Mathletes mathematics competition at Palmdale High School div style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 2em; width: 20em; text-align: right; font-size: 0.86em; font-family: lucida grande, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> '''Palmdale High School . It was the second consecutive win for Rosamond's Tropico and the fourth victory in a row for Edwards Air Force Base's Desert. Desert's eighth-grade team won among the small schools, while Tropico's eighth-grade team was the large-school winner. Tropico eighth-grader Brian Castillo Brian Castillo (born November 22, 1968) is an American musician/producer, and photographer born in Tacoma, Washington. Best known for his work with The Living Jarboe and In Gowan Ring, sometimes in a musician role and sometimes as a producer/engineer. was the winner of the Chuck Stoll Award, which goes to the student with the best cumulative score over three years of competition, and a $500 savings bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. . ``It feels great,'' Brian said Brian Said (born May 15 1973 in Valletta, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Sliema Wanderers in the Maltese Football League, where he plays as a defender. External links
More than 450 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from 25 middle schools participated in the Mathletes competition, which was held over three days in the Palmdale High School gymnasium. Students competed in teams by grade level and individually. Math problems consisted of geometry, algebra, and probability and statistical problems. In the seventh-grade competition, Joe Walker Middle School teams took the top three spots among large schools, tying with Piute for second place. Sacred Heart School Sacred Heart School may refer to one of these schools: In the United States
Acton School won the small-school, sixth-grade competition. Amargosa Creek Middle School won the large-school, sixth-grade competition. The large-school eighth-grade individual winner was Joey Thomas Joseph Elleweyn "Joey" Thomas (born August 20, 1980 in Seattle, Washington) is an American football cornerback who plays for the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL. Thomas was drafted out of Montana State University in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. of Joe Walker Middle School. The small-school eighth-grade individual winner was Katie Shanks of Desert. Other individual winners were Stephen Recker from Forbes Elementary School elementary school: see school. for small-school sixth-graders; Serena Martinez and Joshua Hills teammate Addison Greene who tied for large school-sixth graders; and Alex Ristich of Piute for small-school seventh-graders. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Sacred Heart The Sacred Heart is a religious devotion to Jesus' physical heart as the representation of the divine love for humanity This devotion is predominantly used in the Roman Catholic Church and also used in the Anglican Church. eighth-graders Alexandra Guzman, left, Phebe Gibson, Lia Bonamassa, Dylan Leslie and Kirsten Messmer work a math problem. (2 -- color) Teams of Antelope Valley area eight-graders compute and compete in the Junior Mathletes challenge Thursday at Palmdale High. (3 -- color) Lindsay Harvey, 14, an eighth-grader at Sacred Heart School in Lancaster, works on a math problem for the Junior Mathletes competition Thursday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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