Middle, high school students compete in math contests

April 11, 2024

Rutherford County Schools

Below is a list of winners from the MTSU Middle Grades Math Contest held at MTSU Thursday, April 4. For middle grades, the top 20 students for each grade level are awarded.

Team Awards

6^th Grade Math: Central Magnet School (first) and Thurman Francis Arts Academy (third)

7^th Grade Math: Blackman Middle School (first)

8^th Grade Math: Thurman Francis Arts Academy (first) and Central Magnet School (third)

Individual Awards

6^th Grade Math

1^st Place - Max Co (Central Magnet School) and Taein Hwang (Central Magnet School)

3^rd Place - Angela Zhuo (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

5^th Place - Ester Brodski (Central Magnet) and Asher Jeong (Siegel Middle)

11^th Place - Anhad Jain (Central Magnet)

12^th Place - Malcolm Butler (LaVergne Middle)

18^th Place - Hayden Anderson (Siegel Middle)

19^th Place - Kene Okafor (Blackman Middle)

7^th Grade Math

2^nd Place - Sahaj (Blackman Middle)

3^rd Place - Ricardo Ortega (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

5^th Place - Layla Saunders (Oakland Middle)

9^th Place - Viviana Hwang (Central Magnet) and Ryan Mau (Blackman Middle School)

11^th Place - Sutton Hammond (Blackman Middle)

12^th Place - Ryan Coon (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

13^th Place - Maddox Patel (Central Magnet)

14^th Place - Layla Cartwright (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

18^th Place - Wyatt Sellars (Siegel Middle)

20^th Place - Esther Moo (Smyrna Middle) and Maria Murcia (Blackman Middle)

8^th Grade Math

2^nd Place - Austin Baker (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

3^rd Place - Aiden Reade (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

4^th Place - Lee Stroup (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

5^th Place - Jacob Johnson (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

6^th Place - Chukwudi Obi (LaVergne Middle)

7^th Place - Havilynn Burton (Central Magnet)

9^th Place - Caleb Smith (Whitworth Buchanan)

10^th Place - Marleigh Parker (Central Magnet)

16^th Place - Owen Oslund (Siegel Middle)

20^th Place - Alex Cheuvront (Siegel Middle)

The TMTA (Tennessee Mathematics Teachers Association) High School contest was held Tuesday, April 2 at MTSU. The list of winners is below.

Algebra 1

6^th Place - Lucas Ye (Central Magnet School)

Geometry

Tied for 4^th Place - Alexander Akin (Central Magnet School) and Austin Baker (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

6^th Place - Richie Gong (Central Magnet School)

7^th Place - Jason Lin (Central Magnet School)

10^th Place - Jacob Johnson (Thurman Francis Arts Academy)

Algebra 2

2^nd Place - John Gamble (Central Magnet School)

3^rd Place - Aiden Hayes (Blackman High School)

6^th Place - Meridian Jackson (Central Magnet School)

7^th Place - Van Breedlove (Central Magnet School)

Statistics

2^nd Place - Ethan Wahl (Central Magnet School)

3^rd Place - Henry Black (Riverdale High School)

4^th Place - Matthew Smith (Central Magnet School)

5^th Place - Anna Niedzielski (Central Magnet School)

6^th Place - Braydon Johnson (Holloway High School)

7^th Place - Kaylee Victory (Central Magnet School)

8^th Place - Kate Wilkinson (Holloway High School)

9^th Place - Joseph McBee (Holloway High School)

10^th Place - Fatima Bernal (Holloway High School)

Precalculus

1^st Place - Daehyun Cho (Central Magnet School)

2^nd Place - Zixin Wang (Central Magnet School)

3^rd Place - Anirudh Kodukula (Central Magnet School)

Tied for 4^th Place - Wylene Co (Central Magnet School) and Zhi Yang Wu (Central Magnet School)

5^th Place - Rebecca Jerkins (Central Magnet School)

7^th Place - Ruba Tobasei (Central Magnet School)

9^th Place - Alex Nguyen (Central Magnet School)

Calculus

1^st Place - Benjamin Xiao (Central Magnet School)

2^nd Place - Jacob Anderson (Central Magnet School)

4^th Place - Cohen Jennings (Central Magnet School)

5^th Place - Aditya Dwivedi (Central Magnet School)

8^th Place - Ian Kelley (Central Magnet School)

10^th Place - Sophia Stringfield (Central Magnet School)