Hockaday Math Club Wins 1st place Sweepstakes Award
On January 14, sixteen Hockaday students competed at the 14th Annual Metroplex Mathematics Contest at St. Mark’s School of Texas. The students competed against more than 100 students from nine local schools including Cistercian, Science and Engineering Magnet School, Ursuline, Parish, Trinity Valley and Oakridge. They did an outstanding job representing Hockaday.
Congratulations to the following students:
Kelsey Chen: 3rd Place Algebra 2 Closed Elizabeth Guo: 3rd Place Geometry Open and 3rd Place Calculus Closed Wendy Ho: 3rd Place Precalculus Open Lin Lin Lee: 2nd Place Geometry Open Clara Shi: 2nd Place Algebra 2 Open Hockaday Team (Effie Guo, Elizabeth Guo, Wendy Ho, Lin Lin Lee, Clara Shi, and Elizabeth Zhou): 1st Place Team Test
Special congratulations to the Hockaday Math Team for taking 1st place in the Sweepstakes Award.
The Math Team recently competed in the Fall GDTCM McNabb, where other local schools including St. Mark’s, Cistercian, Greenhill, Science/Engineering Magnet, Plano ISD schools, etc. participate. Below are the results from our Hockaday team:
Algebra 1 Tied for 4th Place: Kelsey Chen, Lynn Jung 2nd Place Team: Kelsey Chen, Lynn Jung, & Angelina Wu
Precalculus 2nd Place: Hope Fu Tied for 7th Place: Cindy Lu Tied for 9th Place: Kristi Li Tied for 9th Place: Meghna Jain Tied for 1st Place Team: Hope Fu, Cindy Lu & Kristi Li
Calculus Tied for 4th Place: Elizabeth Guo 7th Place: Elizabeth Zhou Tied for 8th Place: Lin Lin Lee Tied for 10th Place: Amy Jia Tied for 10th Place: Sharon Zhang 2nd Place Team: Elizabeth Guo, Elizabeth Zhou & Lin Lin Lee
A special thank you to Jim Wohlgehagen for encouraging some of our 7th/8th grade students to participate in these two competitions. Congratulations to all!