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Bowling Green students honored as international Cornell Math gold medalists
Summary
Board recognized Bowling Green City Schools students who earned gold medals and top scores in the Cornell Math Competition; program and student achievements described.
The Bowling Green City Schools Board of Education on Aug. 14 recognized students who earned gold medals and top team scores in this year’s Cornell Math Competition. Laura Weaver, the district’s gifted intervention specialist and gifted student coordinator, presented the awards during the meeting. Weaver said the district’s PACE (gifted) program competes in two seasons of the Cornell Math Competition and prepares students with weekly practice quizzes and other logic-based training. “My name is Laura Weaver. I’m the gifted intervention specialist and also the gifted student coordinator for gifted services,” she said as she described the program’s preparation and the competition format. The competition awards gold medals to the top scorer on each team and gives certificates to all participants; a perfect season score is 24 points. Weaver told the board that 2,403 students competed internationally this year, with 145 teams across grades 3–8. Bowling Green’s PACE students produced multiple top performers: Weaver listed individual gold medalists and said four Bowling Green students achieved perfect scores this season. She named the students presented at the meeting as Declan Coops, Jessa Donaldson, Nathan LaWare, Bridal Dennis, Aidan Zhu, Jonathan Tangen, Ruby Underwood, Quinn Cameron and Maisie Perkins and said some recipients will advance into accelerated middle- and high-school math courses next year. The district’s rookie and intermediate teams also posted high team scores, Weaver said: the rookie team scored 230 points, which she described as the highest team score among all international participants at that level, and the intermediate team scored 187 points. On the advanced level, Weaver said the district’s smaller team scored 126 points; the advanced-team plaque threshold was 135, so the district did not receive a plaque this year but still noted individual successes. Superintendent Ted Hazeland and board members joined in congratulating the students and presenting certificates. The board did not take any policy action related to the awards.
