Mathcounts students compete in Powell

Students from Thermopolis Middle School

recently competed at Northwest College in

Powell in the Mathcounts program, both individually

and as a team. The 10 students

competed against Lander, Lovell, and Powell

in four different rounds, the Sprint, Target,

Team and Countdown.

Josiah Butler, a seventh grader, scored sixth

overall and will be moving on to the state level

in Laramie this Saturday, March 4.

Each of the different rounds is slightly different

and has differing time constraints.

The Sprint round includes 30 math questions

and the student has 40 minutes to complete

them.

The Target round has just eight questions

which are distributed to the students a pair at

a time and they have six minutes to complete

each pair of problems.

In the Team round they are given 10 problems

and they work together for 20 minutes to

solve them. The top 25% of individuals, up to a

maximum of 10 students, then proceed to the

Countdown round where they compete headto-

head with oral math questions.

The TMS Mathcounts club has students

from fi fth through eighth grades and they have

been meeting every Friday night since October

to practice. The top 10 in the club were chosen

for the Mathcounts competition.

"Overall, we are very proud of our students

for all the hard work and effort they put forth,"

said coach Stephanie Czarobski, eighth grade

math teacher. "They did a great job this year,

and with such a young team we know they will

continue to improve every year."

Other coaches for the team include Emmy

Hergert, seventh grade math teacher and Catie

Deromedi, sixth grade math teacher.

Students who attended the competition in

Powell included Scotty Whipps, Owen Mc-

Cumber, Gavin Shumway, Lexi Overfi eld, and

Hannah Andreen, all sixth graders.

From the seventh grade class Josiah Butler

and Ryan Mosser competed in Powell and

eighth graders included Reagan Severance,

Elisa Weber and Maddie Stam.