Kirby School District 140 claimed eleven awards at the annual South Cook Math Bowl held at Prairie State College on May 11th and May 12th.
"This is quite an accomplishment when you consider more than 200 contestants from 30 school districts competed each day in this year's event," said Gifted Resource teacher Karen Cronk.
The South Cook Math Bowl is an annual competition which has the best math students from elementary schools in the south and southwest suburbs vying against one another in both individual and team events. In District 140, the three students with the highest math test scores per grade were selected to participate in the contest, with two competing and one serving as an alternate. Teacher Susan Murphy believes that the success of their math team is a direct result of the dedication, time, and effort the students and their teachers put forth preparing for the competition.
"District 140 did phenomenally well in both the team and individual events. We could not be more proud of the Kirby School District 140 students’ achievement in this academic event," noted teacher Sarah Osborne.
Individual Winners: Charlotte Gallivan- 3rd place for 1st grade; Nathan Beitia - 4th place for 1st grade; Thomas Crehan- 6th place for 2nd grade; Jack Radtke- 3rd place for 3rd grade; Alexander Maliwat - 5th place for 4th grade; Kazuma Choji - 1st place for 4th grade; Raphael Talusan - 2nd place for 5th grade; Ryan Talusan - 1st place for 8th grade.
Team Awards: 3rd/4th Grade Team - 2nd place: Erin Kammerzell, Jack Radtke, Alexander Maliwat, Kazuma Choji; 5th/6th Grade Team - 5th place: Sean Kammerzell, Raphael Talusan, Patrick Keating, Anthony Stella; 7th/8th Grade Team - 6th place: Christin Sanchez, Sara Beitia, Nathan Shin, Ryan Talusan.
District 140’s 2017 MVP Awards went to Alexander Maliwat and Ryan Talusan. Alternates selected for this year’s competition were Dominic Russo, Dominick Lokes, James Abraham, Isabella Rogers, Liam Johnson, Alex Ceja, Chloe Krueger, and Althena Yu.
