Monroe Math Students Rank High in National Contest, with One Perfect Score

Many Monroe students in grades two through five excelled in the Noetic-Learning Math Contest and one, Justin Guinta, had a perfect score of 100, tying four other second graders for the highest grade in the entire country.

This is a contest that is offered to schools across the United States. The goal of the competition is to encourage young students' interest in math, to inspire them to excel in math, and to develop their problem solving skills.

Each test is comprised of 20 problem solving questions. Each question is worth 5 points. In this year’s Spring Contest 6,298 students participated. Students who score in the top 10% of the country receive a National Honor Role certificate and a medal.

Students who score in the top 50% of the country receive an Honorable Mention
Certificate. Students who score the highest for their team (grade level by school)
also receive a medal. For more information on this contest please go to noetic-
learning.com.

Spring 2011 Contest winners:

National Honor Roll, Fawn Hollow

Grade 2: Connor Tedesco, Anna Castro-Rodrigues, Meghan Braiewa

Grade 3: Thomas Insalco, Steven Lee,

Grade 4: Quinn Clay

Grade 5: Braedon Gentry, Alia Aguilar

National Honor Roll, Monroe Elementary

Grade 2: Sam Pearson

Grade 3: None

Grade 4: Alex Moreno, Peyton Sullivan, Jackson Kelman, Zachary Minch

Grade 5: Matthew Pearson, Vincent Sampieri, Ethan Bassett

National Honor Roll, Stepney Elementary School

Grade 2: Justin Guinta, Brenna Chopskie, Alexander Winters, Oliver Wells, Samuel Snyder

Grade 3: James Gillen

Grade 4: Sean Murray, Jared Smith, Kaleigh McGunnigle, Zachary Forte

Grade 5: Kyle Immel

Honorable Mention, Fawn Hollow

Grade 2: Brendan Dauk, Grace Shawah, Jessica Noce, Joshua Correll, Katie
Zimmer, Nicholas D’Auria, Abigail Kauke, Baden McLaughlin, Josie McGuire, Michael Ganino.

Grade 3: Joseph Lemm, Ryan Unger, Chiara Vaccaro, Emily Lange, Hayley Baron,
Kyle Cirillo, Mateo Perpetuo, Anita Pothinseky, Gavin Neumeyer, Molly Dauk, Sarah Pfau, Zion Walker.

Grade 4: Campbell Halloran, Gretchen Bunovsky, Joey Keegan, Gabe Wilkins, Jarrod Schulz, Lucas Cuseo, T.J. Rohach, Jack Roberge, P.J. Fox, Erin Ellbogen, Jessica Sokol, Sean Vargas, Shannon Cavanaugh.

Grade 5: Chloe Shawah, Brianna Mulloy, Harrison Loescher, Lian Bourret, Annika
Veeraraghav, Elias Levy, Rodolfo Matthews, Amaan Ashab, Anthony Mastroni.

Honorable Mention, Monroe Elementary

Grade 2: Nolan Downey, Tayt Broderick, Riley Gaffney, Jake Minch, Max Damone, Alyssa Lichvar, Gabi Nartowicz, Angela Cassera.

Grade 3: Deepti Gosukonda, Josie Sampieri, Maggie Dixon, Dylan D'Angelo, Jake MacFarlane, Theodore Gross, Evan Ross, Amanda Cohen, Michael Bunovsky, Noelle Swift, Kevin Moavero.

Grade 4: Forrest Gosnell, Molly Carriero, Alison Cross.

Grade 5: Emily Lane, Gina Dragonette, Liam McCarthy, Gabriel Rodrigues, Allie Lichvar, JP Coughlin, Emma Campos, Shane McPadden, Alexander Massaro, Colin Raymond.

Honorable Mention, Stepney Elementary School

Grade 2: Noah Dattilo, Miranda Conetta, Katherine Spangenberg, Connor Lardi, Katen Hodska, Sarah Hensel, Christopher Jascha, Carly Northrop

Grade 3: Evan Smith, Hunter Smith,Stephan VanGemert, Caroline Kopfmann,Eric Romansky, Zoe Helmke, David Dilks-Anderson, Ashley Willumsen, Jessica Damiani, Mackenzie Deering, Caitlin Malmberg, Jeffrey Nugent,Ethan Romano, Hailey Simons, Emma Michetti, Kyle Koscinski, Griffin Elliott, Hunter Socci, Abigail Clausen, Chloe Miller, Devin Vollono, Joseph DePalma, Montana Killoran

Grade 4: John Hanson, Rohit Sureshanand, Sneha Sureshanand, Margaret Didio,Violet Carlson, Madeline Winters, Joshua Memmesheimer, Bradley Grose, Leo Beyers

Grade 5: Nisha Honnaya, Donald Wheeler, William Santee, Tyler Chopskie, Kevin O'Connor