RENO - Harrison Kolar, an eighth-grader at Winnemucca Junior High School, excelled at the recent MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition, which took place Feb. 11 in Reno.
Kolar is one of 22 northern Nevada middle school students who qualified to compete in the upcoming MATHCOUNTS State Competition to be held March 10 in Reno.
A total of 90 math students from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades participated in individual and team events at the competition. The top individual score was achieved by Joseph Chou, a Davidson Academy eighth-grader.
The highest-ranked schools based on individual and team scores were the Davidson Academy of Nevada, Swope Middle School and Coral Academy of Science. These three teams, plus 10 more top-scoring students from five northern Nevada schools, earned the right to compete against the Southern Nevada Chapter at the state level. The top four students at the state competition will represent Nevada at the MATHCOUNTS National Competition to be held in Orlando, Fla., in May.
MATHCOUNTS was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the CNA Foundation as an incentive for young people to develop valuable math skills. MATHCOUNTS is privately funded by donations from the professional community.
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