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ZANESVILLE, January 2020 — Several area middle school students earned top honors recently at the local Muskingum Valley Chapter MATHCOUNTS competition hosted by Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center.
A Tri-Valley Middle School team recently earned second place. Team members included Ben Beebe, Bode McCullough, Jack Morehouse, Eric Timm and Coach Kirstin Blair. Andrew Van Meter from Philo Junior High captured the top individual honor, and Brendan Bernath from Bishop Fenwick School won the Countdown Round.
Along with Van Meter, East Muskingum Middle School’s Tanner Caudill, Rushville Middle School’s Gus Swinehart and Sheridan Middle School’s Brandt Bailey will represent the local chapter as individual winners. The Tri-Valley team and the four individual winners will now advance to the state competition held in Columbus on March 7, 2020. The top four individuals from the state competition will represent Ohio at the 2020 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition in Orlando, Florida, May 10-12.
More than 100,000 students across the U.S. participate each year in the MATHCOUNTS Competition Series, a national math competition that aims to build confidence and problem-solving skills for students who participate. Programs like MATHCOUNTS are critical to preparing students to succeed in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) careers of the future.
The Muskingum Valley Chapter program is sponsored by APG Architects, LLC, Cambridge Packaging, Colgate-Palmolive, The Robert E. Fellers and Leona L. Fellers Foundation Trust, Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center (MVESC) and Zane State College. Gifted Education Coordinator Susan Larson and Math Curriculum Consultant Ruth Ware from the Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center provided leadership at the local levels for the MATHCOUNTS Competition.
The National Sponsors of MATHCOUNTS Foundation are Raytheon Company, Northrop Grumman Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense STEM, the National Society of Professional Engineers, 3Mgives, Texas Instruments Incorporated, CNA Insurance, Art of Problem Solving and NextThought. MATHCOUNTS was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and CNA Insurance.
[CAPTION: A Tri-Valley Middle School team recently captured second place at the MATHCOUNTS Competition hosted by Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center. Team members are (left to right): Coach Kirstin Blair, Eric Timm, Ben Beebe, Jack Morehouse and Bode McCullough. (submitted)]
About MATHCOUNTS Foundation:
MATHCOUNTS is a nonprofit organization that strives to engage middle school students of all ability and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs to expand their academic and professional opportunities. For more than 30 years, MATHCOUNTS has provided free, high-quality resources to educators and enriching, extracurricular opportunities to students to lay a foundation for future success. Materials and information are available at www.mathcounts.org.
About Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center (MVESC):
MVESC is a resource center for schools, agencies and communities in Coshocton, Hocking, Morgan, Muskingum, Perry and Tuscarawas counties and beyond. Covering more than 2,400 square miles in our direct service area, MVESC helps nearly 31,000 students learn and more than 2,000 teachers teach in the largest service region of all 52 ESCs in Ohio.
