Great Plains Math League Contest

Central Academy math students earned 1^st place in the Great Plains Math League contest held in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, October 3.  Twenty-nine of Central’s thirty-nine participants qualified for the state math championships to be held in April by virtue of their scores at this event.  Those students are:

12^th graders – Edel Aron, Granger Carty, Patrick Hiatt, Max Pilcher, Oliver Shimp, Ryan Utke and Noah Werling.

11^th graders – Harry Crane, Vaughn Hommerding, Rachel Schneider, and Kristina Smith

10^th graders – Akanksha Chilikuri, A.J. Fleming, Helena Gruensteidl, Zach Lin, Payton McBurney, Peter Oswald, Chris Palmer, Finn Pilcher, Nathan Rider, Andrew Shumway, and Jenny Thai

9^th graders – Ryan Burgett, Ankita Chatterjee, Natalie Galluzzo, Shivani Kumaresan, Abbott LaPrade, and Gabe Mintzer

7^th grader – Evan Hilton

Further, Central students captured eighteen of the thirty-six individual awards:

• Sprint Round 12^th grade:  Patrick Hiatt 1^st place, Max Pilcher 2^nd place
• Target Round 12^th grade:  Patrick Hiatt 1^st place, Edel Aron, Max Pilcher, Ryan Utke 2^nd place and Granger Carty 3^rd place
• Target Round 11^th grade:  Harry Crane, Kristina Smith 3^rd place
• Sprint Round 10^th grade:  Zach Lin, Nathan Rider 2^nd place, Andrew Shumway 3^rd place
• Target Round 10^th grader:  Zach Lin 2^nd place, Payton McBurney, Nathan Rider, Andrew Shumway 3^rd place
• Sprint Round 9^th grade:  Gabe Mintzer 2^nd place
• Target Round 9^th place:  Gabe Mintzer 2^nd place