Middle School Math Team Competes in First Tournament of the 2023/2024 School Year

September 25th, 2023

Middle School math team at tournament

Episcopal brought 17 students in Prealgebra through Geometry to compete at the Catholic High Middle School Tournament. They competed against 185 students from 10 schools.

Individual Awards

Prealgebra – Honorable Mention – Eiuske Akiyama and Jack Wallette

Algebra – Honorable Mention – Lila Awad, Tarik Avci, and Rowan Berry

Geometry –

2nd place – Evan Sanders

3rd place – Maoya Nakahara

4th place – Harper Inzer

5th place – David Gboloo

Team Awards

2nd place Prealgebra – Jack Wallette, Eiuske Akiyama, Laura Mapes, Hannah Robinson

5th place Algebra 1 – Tarik Avci, Lila Awad, Robert Bradford

3rd place Geometry – Mason Kelly, Maoya Nakahara, David Gboloo, Evan Sanders

Relay

4th place Prealgebra – Eiuske Akiyama, Laura Mapes, Hannah Robinson

4th place Geometry – Evan Sanders, Maoya Nakahara, Jack Wallette

3rd place Geometry – Zoey Hodges, David Gboloo, Anna Kurz

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Joan Moroney

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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