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On Saturday, February 28th Episcopal placed 2nd overall at the Jesuit Mu Alpha Theta math tournament. The tournament was attended by 497 students from 29 schools. Episcopal brought 18 students in grades 7th  – 12th that competed in subjects from Algebra 1 to Calculus BC.

Individual Tests

Algebra 2              
1st place – Sylvia Weng
Honorable Mention – Dafi Weng

Trigonometry       
1st – Evan Sanders 

Calculus AB         
Honorable Mention – Andrew Richard 

Calculus BC         
1st place – Nate McLean
3rd place – Darren Weng  

Team Tests

1st place Algebra 2 Math Bowl – Lee Busekist, Nneoma Mbagwu, Sylvia Weng, Dafi Weng  

3rd place Calculus A Math Bowl – Andrew Richard, Jordan Harvey, Oscar Fenske

2nd place Algebra 1 – Akari Koyama, August Cloud, Devin Welden, Matthew Zhang 

2nd place Precalculus – Evan Sanders, Tarik Avci, Mason Catallo

1st place Calculus B – Maximo Santana, Darren Weng, Autumn Baldridge, Nate McLean

3rd place Upper Interschool

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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