Local middle schoolers compete at MATHCOUNTS event

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Sixth- , seventh- and eighth-grade “mathletes” from Southern Indiana schools competed Feb. 10 in the Southwestern Indiana Regional MATHCOUNTS Competition at the University of Evansville.

The competition, which was sponsored by The Koch Foundation, Berry Plastics, CountryMark and the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers Educational Foundation included three rounds of written questions. The winners were:

Team winners

  • First place: Perry Heights Middle School, Evansville (Alta Kuhn, Taran Sheth, Emi Wilbourne and Jack Wilbourne)

  • Second place: St. John the Baptist Catholic School, Newburgh (Alex Folz, Nathan Hardesty, Liam Ragan and Avery Slade)

The four individual winners at the recent MATHCOUNTS competition were, from left, Taran Sheth, Abigal Bullington, Narem Raghavan and Jonathan Davis.
The four individual winners at the recent MATHCOUNTS competition were, from left, Taran Sheth, Abigal Bullington, Narem Raghavan and Jonathan Davis.

Individual winners

  • First place: Taran Sheth, Perry Heights Middle School

  • Second place: Abigail Bullington, Evansville Christian School

  • Third place: Naren Raghaven, Castle North Middle School, Newburgh

  • Fourth place: Jonathan Davis, Castle North Middle School, Newburgh

In addition to the written competition, the mathletes received a tour of the University of Evansville campus, ate lunch in the campus food court, and received t-shirts commemorating the event. The top eight mathletes participated in a "Jeopardy"-style competition for fun and prizes.

Bullington, Raghaven and the four members of the Perry Heights team qualified to compete in the state competition at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute on March 9.

More information on MATHCOUNTS can be found at www.mathcounts.org.

This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Local middle schoolers compete at MATHCOUNTS event