The math team will be participating in the state competition Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
13 students will be competing. Those students are seniors Patrick Liscio, Rudy Newman, Theodore Truong, Colleen Persaud, and Joe Cohen; juniors Gregory Fil, Tina Conis, Peter Kundzicz, Smita Jain, and Nancy Ho; sophomores Peter Yim, and Shavina Chau; and freshman Ahsan Lodhi.
Math team head coach and math teacher Robert Nortillo believes that math team continually qualifies for state because of the talented students.
“We have very talented math kids on the math team, and we work hard to prepare,” Nortillo said.
Students will be competing in the junior/senior eight-person team, calculator team, and individual competitions that include oral, algebra two, and geometry.
Jain, who will be competing in the junior/senior eight-person team as well as algebra two, was pleasantly surprised when she found out she made it to state.
Nortillo has high hopes for his team.
“We want to get a couple of top ten finalists on team events, and for our oralist, we are hoping for top three, maybe first place,” Nortillo said.
Liscio, who will be competing in the oral and junior/senior eight-person team categories, agrees with Nortillo.
