Creative Communications Winner

The essay entitled “Math” that Mihir S wrote in the fall has been selected out of several thousand entries as one of the ten best submitted to the Creative Communications contest from students all over the United States and Canada. Mihir was the only student from Ohio and just the second student in Birchwood history to qualify for this honor. He will receive a free anthology and a $25 prize. Congratulations!

Student of the Week

Joan C has made us proud. She was the Sun Sentinel “Student of the week” in the February 16, 2012 issue. The story highlighted Joan’s sculpture “Twisted,” which received honorable mention from the 2012 Scholastic Art Exhibition.

Continental Math League Meet #4

Gold Award: Peter, Nate, Clive, Alexander I, Kavya,

Dhweeja, Vinayak, Ammar, Michael T, Avi, Maya D,

Michael H, Cameron K, Elizabeth P

Silver Award: Anthony, John H, Adam, Anna H, Prathna

K, Pheby, Grace X, Anika, Sahej, Laurie, Kevin S

Bronze Award: Christine B, Hana L, Haley, Caroline

V, Jack, Grace C, Rami

Math Olympiads Meet #4

Gold Award: Clive, Dhweeja, Kavya, Grace C, Anika,

Farah

Silver Award: Prathna, Vinayak, Hana, Michael T,

Nikhita, Mihir

Bronze Award: Alexander I, Alexander H, Naomi, John

H, Anna H, Adam, Pheby, Ammar, Megan P, Jack,

William, Sofia, Avi, Laurie, Maya D

MathCounts

At the MathCounts contest sponsored by the Society of Engineers, our team took 1st place against some of the best math programs in Northeast Ohio. In addition, we won the individual 1st place (go Clive C!) and several other places in the top 15. See the full story below...

First Place at the Regional Competition

Congratulations to Birchwood’s MathCounts team of

Clive, Nate, Kavya, and Dhweeja. They came in first

place at the Chapter Competition held at Cleveland

State University on March 10. This team will compete

at the state level on March 10 in Columbus, Ohio. In

addition, Vinayak K qualified to be a state competitor

after earning the sixth highest score. These five students

will vie against approximately 400 students at Columbus

State College to make be one of four finalists who

will represent Ohio in Orlando, Florida at the National

Competition.

I would like to make it a point for all of our younger

aspiring math competitors that these students are

not only good mathematicians, but perhaps more

importantly, they are extraordinary workers. They have

spent scores of hours outside of class honing their math

skills as they aspired to be the best. I am quite proud of

them for their efforts and achievements.

Power of the Pen

At the Power of the Pen competition our 8th graders brought home the 2nd place team trophy and the 7th graders, the 3rd place trophy! Katelyn V won 1st place as an individual. You have to read the list of other distinguished honors achieved by our writers below.

Birchwood students competed in Pepper Pike on

February 25, Saturday, at the district Power of the

Pen writing competition where they went up against

fifteen other schools. Students wrote three narratives

to three different prompts in forty-minute sessions.

Congratulations to all the participants who brought home

these coveted trophies and awards:

Third place for the seventh grade team: Anthony C,

Prathna K, Pheby L, Ammar L, Megan P, Michael T,

Haley Y.

Second place for the eighth grade team: Peter A, Clive

C, Joan C, Kavya R, Naomi W, Katelyn V.

Megan P placed seventh among the seventh graders,

while Naomi W, Joan C, and Katelyn V received the

tenth, third, and first place trophies.

“Best of Rounds” went to Megan P in Round 3, while

she and Ammar L each received an Honorable Mention

for the other rounds.

Thank you very much to Mark Gianetti and Antoinette

Abou Haidar who provided much needed help with

transportation and assistance in the tab room.

Continental Math League

3rd-4th Grade Math

Congratulations go out to our recent Continental Math

League medal winners. In the third grade, Shruthi R

earned a gold, while Stella C earned silver. Alex D and

Alex M both earned bronze medals. In the fourth grade,

Tejal P earned gold, Channin M, Farah S, and Annessa

W earned silver, and Jane N earned bronze medals.