OJH students qualify for state TMSCA meet
Olney Junior High’s Math and Science team competed in their first state qualifying Texas Math and Science Coaches Association (TMSCA) meet on Saturday, Feb. 17, bringing home Sweepstakes honors with the most cumulative points of all schools in attendance. Thirty-seven students traveled to City View Middle School to compete against seventy- five other sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students from six local schools. Both the Math and Science Teams earned second place, the Calculator Applications Team achieved third, and the Number Sense Team brought home fourth place. In addition, 27 of the 37 in attendance scored well enough to earn a trip to the state contest.
“Students must earn a previously determined qualifying score to get their ticket to the State Meet in San Antonio on April 13,” Rhonda Geter, TMSCA coordinator for OJH, said.
Individual students earning top ten in their grade level; Eighth Grade: Number Sense: Mackenzie Berngen sixth, Shaine Grard ninth Calculator Applications: AJ Solano fourth, Jacobi Esquivel fifth Mathematics: Jasmine Bryan fourth, Grard fifth, Mackenzie Berngen seventh, Jacob Bryan fourth, Esquivel ninth Science: Mackenzie Berngen seventh, Fernanda Cardenas eighth, Shaine Grard ninth Seventh Grade: Number Sense: Jett Brock sixth Calculator Applications: Harris Sullivan second Mathematics: Brock first, Odin Savard fourth, Sullivan sixth, Pedro Gonzalez seventh Science: Savard first, Grace Jeske and Sullivan tie for fourth, Brock fifth, Angel Ferrer-Franco ninth Sixth Grade: Number Sense: Trent Berngen first, Zeph Tejada third, Jaxon Badford fifth Calculator Applications: Tejada first, Libby Lane fourth, Leigha Hampton fifth, Laney Kimbro sixth, Jaxon Bedford seventh, Emerald Edgington 10th Mathematics: Tejada second, Miles Branum fifth, Bedford ninth Science: Kate Santibanez first, Clara Symank third, Kimbro fifth, Branum seventh, Trent Berngen eighth The following 27 students qualified for the state meet: Mackenzie Berngen, Bryan, Cardenas, Esquivel, Grard, Crayton Nash, Solano, Jackson Spurlock, Brock, Abram Dinwiddie, Ferrer-Franco, Oaklan Hopkins, Jeske, Savard, Sullivan, Wesley Symank, Zayden Adkins, Trent Berngen, Branum, Edgington, Hampton, Kimbro, Lane, Markel Long, Santibanez, Symank, and Tejada.