Four Minnesota math students are going to Disney World in Orlando, Fla., to represent the state in the national MATHCOUNTS competition.
They were the top scorers among 115 students at the 26th annual state competition held Saturday at the Radisson Conference Center in Plymouth.
The winners were Jacob Neis, an eighth-grader at Chapel Hill Academy, Chanhassen; Roy Zhao, an eighth-grader at Wayzata West Middle School; Max Wang, an eighth-grader at Central Middle School, Eden Prairie, and Ian McMeeking, a seventh-grader at St. John the Evangelist, Rochester.
Eighth-graders Joseph Lombardi, of Dakota Hills Middle School, Eagan, and Joshua Fourre, of Central Middle School, Eden Prairie, will act as alternates. The top scoring team at the meet was Eden Prairie's Central Middle School, followed by Wayzata West Middle School, Osseo Junior High, Buffalo Community Middle School, Capitol Hill Magnet School in St. Paul, Dakota Hills in Eagan, Kellogg Middle School in Rochester, Willmar Junior High, Discovery Middle School in Alexandria and Rosemount Middle School.
The national competition will be May 7-10.
More information can be found online at www.mathcountsmn.org.
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