Monday, April 18, 2005

Episcopal students earned four first-place awards at the Mu Alpha Theta state convention April 6-8 at the Holiday Inn Select in Baton Rouge.

Irene Huang earned first place in the Algebra II Event and fourth place in the Individual Algebra Test. She was the Top Algebra Cipherer.

Stephen Cassidy earned first place in the Statistics and Probability Event, and Lindsay LeBlanc placed first in the Differential Calculus AB Event.

Chris Hobbs placed first in Descartes (Calculus AB) and eighth in the Calculus AB Individual Test.

Other individual award winners were: Stanley Chen, third place, Calculus BC Individual Test; Nikhil Helferty, fourth place, Algebra II Event; and Bret Wilson, fifth place, Calculus BC Individual Test.

The team of Jessica Ferreyra, Kenneth Leu, Stanley Chen and Bret Wilson placed third in the Calculus BC Team Event. Ali Zamin, Nikhil Helferty, Beau Downey and Irene Huang placed sixth in the Algebra/Geometry Team Event.

In the Gemini Team Event, Stephanie Bayne and Chelsea Gidden placed ninth. Stephen Cassidy, Michael Bujol, U.J. Santiesteban and Trey Miller placed 10th in the PreCalculus Team Event.

Episcopal also placed second in Scrapbook, second in the Algebra/Geometry Interschool Event, second in the Quality Sweepstakes, fourth in the PreCalculus/Calculus Interschool Event and eighth in the Overall Sweepstakes.