MATHCOUNTS Team Places 3rd
At the 2022 Northeast Ohio MATHCOUNTS virtual competition the Birchwood School of Hawken team consisting of Jordan Gordon, Joshua Gordon, Ben Miyares, and Angela D’Souza placed 3rd out of the 12 participating teams and each member has advanced to the state competition.
Individually, Birchwood had nine students to place among the top 50 students:
Jordan Gordon - 4th
Michael Zhu - 7th
Joshua Gordon - 15th
Ben Miyares - 22nd
Jasmine Chen - 28th
Jeremy Rotberg - 36th
Angela D’Souza - 38th
Emerson Krauss - 43rd
Arav Bhandari - 50th
Each year approximately 140,000 students from all 50 states, U.S. territories and the State and Defense Department school systems worldwide participate in the school MATHCOUNTS competitions, with about 40,000 students participating at the chapter competitions. The MATHCOUNTS Competition is a national middle school coaching and competitive mathematics program that promotes mathematics achievement through a series of fun and engaging “bee” style contests.
“The team’s success can be attributed directly to their hard work. They have been practicing challenging math problems on Thursdays and Saturdays since late September,” said Charles Debelak, Birchwood’s MATHCOUNTS coach. Mr. Debelak has been coaching the Birchwood MATHCOUNTS team for more than 38 years.
