Doral Academy Mu Alpha Theta places sixth at National Convention

 

 

Doral Academy’s award-winning math team missed out on nationals last year due to the pandemic and were very excited to get back to competition this year, even though it could not be held in person.

28 Doral high school students gathered at the Doral Academy campus for two days of rigorous testing on July 13 and 14. 

The testing covered a wide range of topics and levels, from Algebra I through advanced Calculus. Topic tests included more specific areas of math, such as History of Math, Matrices and Vectors, Physics, and many more.

The math team placed 6^th overall in sweepstakes. Their poster placed 5^th; the calculus team 4^th; precalculus 5^th.  Twenty seven awards were given to students for their performances on individual tests. 

Two students placed in the Chalk Talk category, where a student has to research a given topic and present a 7 minute talk going into depth on the topic and presenting it in a unique and interesting manner.  Nicholas Arce placed 6^th in the Theta Division and Amanda Miyares 7^th in Mu. 

 

Students who won three individual awards include:

Diana Bishop, outgoing president of the math club (Limits & Derivatives 6^th; Mu Applications 10^th; Number Theory 10^th);

Marc Marquez (Mu Math in Physics 13^th;  Integration 8^th; Area & Volume 7^th); and

Ronit Sohal (Matrices & Vectors 9^th; Alpha Equations & Inequalities 10^th; Analytic Geometry 12^th).

 

Students who won two individual awards include:

Alberto Alvarez (Mu BC Calculus 5^th; Integration 7^th);

Natalie Chung (Alpha Complex Numbers 10^th; Ciphering 20^th);

Nicholas Newman (Alpha Math in Physics 7^th; Complex Numbers 11^th);

Christian Villa (Mu BC Calculus 12^th; Integration  15^th).

 

Also winning individual awards: 

Catalina Caycedo (Theta Apps 14^th);

Aarush Chaubey (Trigonometry 7^th);

Steven Diaz (Mu Comprehensive 9^th);

Maria Gonzalez (Alpha Math in Physics 13^th); 

Vaishnavi Kappagantula (Alpha Sequences & Series 12^th);

Nicholas Ordonez (Alpha Combinatorics & Probability 10^th);

Manuel Rodriguez (Mu Math in Physics 14^th); 

Yash Saxena (Mu Apps 14^th).