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A, B and C students The N Math Club went to five
joined Academic De contests which were
cathlon. held from Missouri
They participated in O to South Dakota.
regionals in late January. These contests contained
There were three levels of subjects from physics to
competition: Regionals at com puters and of course
Creighton Prep, State and m ath.
Nationals in Baltimore. “We P “The people who get in
placed pretty high in the volved in Math Club u su
ally w ant to sharpen their
super quiz which was our
m ath skills for contests and to
goal,” Senior Carisa Leise help them in college and later on
said. in life,” Senior Marc Lombardo
They met two or three said.
times a week from Septem The Math Club entered many
ber through the first half of "We were real excited contests throughout the year
January, then every day for su c h as UNL M ath Day,
a couple of weeks before the after we won the Creighton Math Day, Dakota
com petition to be better State, the Nebraska State Fair
prepared. Sprouts Tournament. and Northwest Missouri State.
By far the best contest for the
Leise was on Academic For winning the tourna Math Club was the Dakota State
Decathlon when she was a Contest where the team brought
sophomore but not as a jun ment we received home a 2nd place trophy in the
ior because there was no frosted cookies which large schools division. ‘T his was
team. “It was a lot of fun my a really good contest for us be
sophomore year, so 1 de were pretty good.” cause a lot of the team placed
cided to do it this year since Freshmen Jackie Kohles well,” Senior Mike Sail said.
there were enough people JUSTIN GURETZKY
interested,” Leise said. and Mindy Siedschlag
MELISSA JOHNSON
Contemplating their next move in the
Annual Sprouts Tournament are Sopho
more Brandon Meisinger and Junior
Jeff Shannon, photo by AMY MARSH
