Miami Springs Senior wins 18 awards at State Competition!

Miami  Springs Senior  High School  Math  State Convention Miami Springs Senior High School Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society  attended State Convention in Orlando  April 17-20.  Over 1200 serious math  students reprenting 51 schools participated in a series of individual and team  tests on topics ranging from  Differential Equations  to  Matrices and Vectors. 

Miami Springs  won 18 awards, including 1st place in scrapbook, 3rd place in  Interschool, and 7th place in poster. Frank Rodriguez, a senior, won four awards, including 2nd  place out of 212 students taking the test in Calculus BC, 7th in  Calculus Applications out of 253 students, 13th in Differential  Equations, and 10th in Squirty Chicken , which is an award given  based on his placing in all competitions this year on
the calculus  level. Tyler Thomas, a junior, won three awards:  6th in Analytic Geometry;  18th out of 294 in Alpha Individuals, and 18th in Alpha  Logs and Exponents.

Oscar Sanchez, also a junior, placed 11th   out of 300 in Calculus Integration and  14th out of 212 in Limits and Derivatives. Evan Williams, in addition to leading the school to 3rd place  in the Interschool Award, placed 16th  in the Gemini test, and was elected to  the position of Vice President of the state organization, Florida Association of  Mu Alpha Theta, FAMAT.  He will  serve in this official capacity for a period of one year, along with officers  elected from different schools throughout the state.  This is the first time that Miami  Springs Senior High has had a student on the state FAMAT board. He is also the  President of the Miami Springs chapter for the 2008-2009 school year.

Ismaily Ortega, the outgoing president of the math club, placed  16th on the Gemini test along with Williams, and was instrumental in  the first place award won by their mandala themed scrapbook, and the  7th place won by poster. Aracelis Chamorro placed 10th out of 184 in  Quadrilaterals.  Mayra Reyes placed  14th in Matrices and Vectors.  Anthony Fernandez placed 13th in Alpha Logs and Exponents, and  Alejandro Lugo and Danielle Lefebvre placed 7th in poster with the  theme of "Leading the green revolution, one problem and a time". Teachers and parent attending the convention along with the 35 students  from Miami Springs Senior High were Sam Koski, Libby Manning, Luis Trabanco,  Beatriz Llerena, Lisa Wever and Chrystiana Fernandez.
 
Evan Williams in the first student from Miami Springs Senior High to be  elected to the FAMAT (Florida Association of Mu Alpha Theta) state board. He  will serve as Vice President for the 2008-2009 school year for the state  organization, as well as President of his school chapter.