For the fourth year in a row, Solanco High School student Aidan McBride has qualified for the national MathCON contest, which will take place in Chicago. In addition, Providence Elementary fifth-grader Isaac Esh has become the first Solanco elementary student to earn an invitation to the MathCON finals. Isaac scored 255 out of a possible 300 points, giving him a national ranking of 117 and placing him the 99th percentile of students who took the exam.
Over the past month, students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels competed in the 2019 MathCON competition. MathCON is an online mathematics contest that allows students to put their math skills to the test, competing in grade-level contests against math students around the country. The competition is separated into two parts. The first round is an online test, comprised of 40 multiple-choice questions that require students to apply what they have learned in their current grade's mathematics class to problems using their own ingenuity and insight. The second round is available to the students who qualify as the top finishers in the country based on the first round's test; the second round includes an in-person test in Chicago.
Three elementary students scored high enough on the exam to be placed on the waitlist for the national competition. Quarryville Elementary fifth-grader Nolan Huber scored 245 points and was ranked 158th in the country (97th percentile), Providence Elementary fifth-grader Blake Jenkins scored 240 points and was ranked 187th in the country (96th percentile), and Clermont Elementary fifth-grader Maddie Welch scored 240 points and was ranked 192nd in the country (96th percentile).
At the middle school level, a total of 96 students took the assessment. Smith Middle School seventh-grader Aliyah Kauffman and eighth-graders Yu Jiang Santiago and Emma Kline, along with Swift Middle School sixth-grader Joshua Craig, all qualified for the waitlist for the final round in the Chicago event.
Solanco High School ninth-grader Andre Mohler, 10th-grader Andrew Craig, 11th-grader Brandon Daniel, and 12th-grader Angel Daniel are alternates for Chicago.
For more information, including a list of students who earned honorable mention in MathCON, readers may visit http://www.solanco.k12.pa.us/?p=35877.
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