The MATHCOUNTS Chapter held its annual competition in person on Feb 26, 2022, at the University of Alabama. Five schools participated in the event, including Eastwood Middle School, Holy Spirit Catholic School, Northridge Middle School, Tuscaloosa Magnet Schools – Middle, and Westlawn Middle School.
We thank our sponsors and partners for their generous donation and strong support: the UA Center for Community-based Partnership (CCBP), College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, Tuscaloosa City Schools (TCS), Tuscaloosa county school system (TCSS), T-Town Friends, the Alabama Society of Professional Engineers (ASPE), and Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa. We thank Dr. Sibin Dai for purchasing t-shirts for MATHCOUNTS contestants and coaches using his MAA grant. We thank Ms. Aurora Ponta, MTLC Lab Director, for supporting us to use the MSB building as the venue for the competition.
The organizing team devoted tremendous efforts: Dr. Chuntain Wang and Dr. Yuanzhen Shao for registration, test tutoring, venue, and test scoring, and Dr. Shan Zhao for test tutoring and lunch service. Mrs. Rachna Agrawal did a fantastic job in fundraising so that we were able to sponsor three Collaboration Awards. The volunteers from the University of Alabama, the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences, made the event possible by helping with registration, tests, award ceremony, scoring, etc.
Collaboration Award Winners
The 2021-2022 MATHCOUNTS-Tuscaloosa Collaboration Awards are sponsored by the T-Town Friends, a private group of Tuscaloosa residents dedicated to supporting local STEM education. Three math teachers are presented with the Collaboration Award for their efforts to organize math teams and work with MATHCOUNTS Tuscaloosa for competition tutoring. The awardees are:
- Ms. Kathryn Versace, Northridge Middle School (NMS)
- Ms. Tyease Peoples, Eastwood Middle School
- Ms. Lauren Blair, Westlawn Middle School
Count-Down Round Awards
- First place: David Wang, NMS
- Second place: Sophia Guo, NMS
- Third place: Alex Zhu, NMS
- Fourth place: Ilai Gribelli, Tuscaloosa Magnet Schools – Middle
- Fifth place: Rosie Zhang, NMS
Written Test Awards
We presented individual awards grades based on students’ written tests. The 6th grade awards are:
- Alex Zhu, NMS, the first place
- Rachel Shu, NMS, the second place
- Jayden Yoon, NMS, the third place
- Aniketh Kalyan, Magnet School – Middle, the four place
- Haram Byun, NMS, the fifth place
- Andrew Nam, NMS, the sixth place
- Charles Dai, NMS, the seventh place
- Aeesha Mulani, Magnet School – Middle, the eighth place
| The 7th grade awards are:llai Cribelli, Magnet School – Middle, the first place Rosie Zhang, NMS, the second place Aditya Gupta, Magnet School – Middle, the third place Nick Sifuentes, Magnet School – Middle, the four place Chloe Moore, Holy Spirit, the fifth place Jimmy Stevenson, Eastwood, the sixth place Michael Rogers, Eastwood, the seventh place Lucian McWaters, NMS, the eighth place | The 8th grade awards are:David Wang, NMS, the first place Nathan Lee, NMS, the second place Sophia Guo, NMS, the third place Audrey Guo, NMS, the four place Jeffrey Zhao, Magnet School – Middle, the fifth place Nate Givens, Holy Spirit, the sixth place Sunny Shen, Magnet School – Middle, the seventh place Marielle Rumerio, NMS, the eighth place |
Team Awards
- First place: Northridge Middle School; Lead coach: Ms. Kathryn Versace
- Second place: Magnet School-Middle; Lead coach: Ms. Allison Sanders
- Third place: Holy Spirit Catholic School; Lead coach: Mr. Kevin King
- Fourth place: Eastwood Middle School: Lead coach: Ms. Lauren Blair
- Fifth place: Westlawn Middle School: Lead coach: Ms. Tyease Peoples
Students advancing to the state competition
Ten students advanced to the state competition from the Tuscaloosa Chapter as listed below. The selection was based on student performance from the official chapter competition that took place virtually on Feb 17, 2022.
- Nathan Lee, Sophia Guo, David Wang, Alex Zhu, YoungHyun Nam, Rachel Shu, and Rosie Zhang from Northridge Middle School
- Sunny Shen, Ilai Cribelli, and Jeffrey Zhao from Magnet School-Middle