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Nov
24
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- TCAPS
11/24/2009
Traverse City Area Public Schools is pleased to announce Traverse City Central High School and Traverse City West High Senior High School students have qualified as finalists in the Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition (MMPC). These students are among the top 1,000 students out of 8,000 students who took Part I of the Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition in October 2009.
TC Central High School MMPC finalists are:
Seniors Juniors
Tyler Broad Nicole Helmboldt
Adela Fedor
Luke Friedli Freshmen
Michael Roskelley Daniel Fedor
Spencer Thompson
Ellen White
Andrew Wynkoop
TC West Senior High School MMPC finalists are:
Seniors Juniors
Lisa Heppler Austin Cacciaglia
Aria Jelinek Amlan Nayak
Andrew McCartney
Samuel Messina
Levi Roth
Daniel Schmidt
Katrina Torgerson
Carolyn Vlach
Finalists will take Part II of the exam in December 2009. The Part II exam consists of five challenging problems to which the students must provide written explanations for their claims and mathematical proofs of the answers. The students with the top 100 scores on both parts of the exam will be invited to an Awards Day program in March 2010 at Saginaw Valley State University. The students with the top 50 scores will be presented with scholarships ranging from the bronze awards of $500 to $2,600 for the first place gold medalist.
Please contact John Failor at (231) 933-5738 or Diane Lyon-Schumacher at (231) 933-7770 or visit MMPC Web site at www.svsu.edu/mmpc for more information.
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