Adeethyia Shankar 8th grader WMS heading to Nationals Mathcounts

On March 9, the 2019 State MATHCOUNTS competition was held at the University of Hartford. A team of middle school Mathletes® from Brunswick Middle School in Greenwich won first place. The top individual was Adeethyia Shankar, from Whisconier School in Brookfield.
Members of the winning team from Brunswick Middle School are: Glen Cahilly, William Ewald, Andrew Tu and Robert Ulmer and the coach is Kevin Landesman.
The second, third and fourth place teams are Irving A Robbins Middle School in Farmington, East Lyme Middle School in Niantic and Eastern Middle School in Riverside, respectively.
The top four individuals from the State Competition will represent Connecticut at the 2019 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition to be held in Orlando, Florida on May 12 & 13.
The four team members representing Connecticut at the 2019 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition are: Adeethyia Shankar, in first place, from Whisconier School in Brookfield, Mingwen Duan, in second place, from East Lyme Middle School in Niantic and Ryan Yang, in third place, from The Foote School in New Haven and Alan Wang, in fourth place, from Irving A. Robbins Middle School in Farmington. The coach is Kevin Landesman from Brunswick Middle School in Greenwich.
The top sixteen Mathletes competed in a Countdown Round where the Mathletes were paired in a fast-paced, oral competition, competing against each other and the clock to solve problems. The first, second, third and fourth place Countdown Round winners are Jiarui Peng from East Lyme Middle School in Niantic, Yunfei Zheng from Timothy Edwards Middle School in South Windsor, Andrew Xu from Dodd Middle School in Cheshire and Andrew Tu from Brunswick Middle School in Greenwich, respectively.
The State Competition is organized by the Connecticut Society of Professional Engineers, hosted by the University of Hartford and sponsored by Connecticut ASHRAE and Connecticut Engineers Education Foundation.
The University of Hartford’s College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) is proud of the continued partnership with MATHCOUNTS over the last thirty-five years. We strive to offer a unique experience for the young students participating in the competitions, continue to promote the importance of STEM in academics, and expose the students to the University at an early stage in their education.
In our increasingly technological society, those students who do not begin developing strong problem-solving, logical thinking and analytical abilities in middle school will face an uphill battle later in life if they wish to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. As the only nationwide math enrichment, club and competition program designed to improve math skills for U.S. middle school students, MATHCOUNTS prepares students for future career opportunities and success. More than 6 million students across the U.S. have participated in MATHCOUNTS programs.
The National Sponsors of MATHCOUNTS are Raytheon Company, Northrop Grumman Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, National Society of Professional Engineers, CNA Insurance, Phillips 66, Texas Instruments Incorporated, 3Mgives, Art of Problem Solving and NextThought. MATHCOUNTS was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and CNA Insurance.
Additional information on MATHCOUNTS is available at www.mathcounts.org.