First Annual CCS Tournament of Mathletes
The Cabarrus County Schools Gifted Education Department
hosted the first Tournament of Mathletes on Saturday, April 1 at
Patriots Elementary School. Throughout the year highly advanced
math students participated in their school Math Olympiad Teams.
This spring, the top five scorers from each school were selected
to represent their school at the district Tournament of Mathletes.
Students participated in the individual event, in which they were
asked to solve 10 challenging problems in 30 minutes, completely
on their own. All five students from each school worked together
during the team event in which they had 20 minutes to solve 10
problems. We congratulate all of the teams and mathletes for their
amazing math talents and perseverance that brought them to the
tournament!
Individual Event Winners:
1st Place: Ayush Paul: Cox Mill Elementary
2nd Place: Srivalli Kantamneni: Coltrane Webb Elementary
3nd Place: Hector Ayala Garcia: C.E. Boger Elementary
Team Event Winners:
1st Place: Cox Mill Elementary
(members: Gracie Forrester, Ayush Paul, Supriya Akella,
Advaith Karthik, Dharshan Prabakaran)
2nd Place: C.E. Boger Elementary
(members: Cate Depken, Lauren Rynk, David South, Hector
Ayala Garcia, Cooper Burris)
3rd Place: Pitts School Road Elementary
(members: Morgan Gregory, Matthew Giffin, Lauren Haston,
Andrew Hooker, Chloe Newton)
RRES Students Receive Shoes That Fit
Students from Rocky River
Elementary School enjoyed
a day out at Concord Mills
sparked by the Shoes That
Fit program. The outing
was filled with shopping at
Rack Room Shoes, lunch at
Burger King, and topped
off with a surprise visit to
Sea Life Aquarium.
Special thanks to Rack
Room Shoes, Burger King,
and Sea Life Aquarium for helping to arrange this awesome event for our
students. And of course, a huge thank you to Shoes That Fit!
Shoes That Fit help children in need in thousands of schools across America,
including Rocky River Elementary. Over 1.4 million pairs of new shoes
and other necessities have been raised and distributed and that number
continues to grow. Most importantly, Shoes That Fit is helping kids improve
their self-esteem and fit in at school by eliminating one of poverty’s most
visible and debilitating marks.
Parent Teacher Magazine • May/June 2017 • 3