Knightly News

Episcopal placed 6th overall at the Louisiana Mu Alpha Theta State Convention held in Baton Rouge. Episcopal brought 23 students that competed against students from 18 schools.  

Individual Test Awards
Theta Geometry  – 10th Julia Brinker
Alpha Precalculus – 19th Ahebwa Muhumuza
Mu B – 11th Justin Dynes, 5th Kathy Hu, and 3rd Reagan Kyle

Area Test Awards
Theta Algebra 2 – 6th Luke Stelly
Alpha Trigonometry – 2nd Hayden Singh and 3rd Ahebwa Muhumuza
Open Functions –3rd Tanvi Dhaka
Open Statistics – 3rd Shuhei Niwano
Mu A Integration – 6th Ella Harper
Mu B – 5th Laura Gboloo

Game/Team Awards
Descartes Theta – 5th Luke Stelly
Descartes Alpha – 3rd Lauren McGrath  
Theta Geometry Gemini – 2nd Julia Brinker and Miniya Malone
Mu A Gemini – 4th Akshay Basireddy and Carter McLean
Mu B Gemini – 5th Justin Dynes and Shuhei Niwano  
Mu B Math Bowl – 3rd Kathy Hu, Ivy Jiang, Reagan Kyle and Thomas O’Connor  
Mu B Top Cipherer – Kathy Hu

Overall School Awards
5th Alpha Interschool
4th Mu Interschool
6th  Sweepstakes

Joan Moroney began teaching in 2007. She has taught Honors Geometry, Algebra II, and Honors Algebra II at Episcopal and is a co-sponsor of the Mu Alpha Theta math competition team. Before coming to Episcopal in 2014, Joan taught high school credit math courses to gifted students at Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge. She has a Bachelor of Science in secondary mathematics education from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in education from Louisiana State University in gifted education.

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