Students Earn Honors At PI Math Competition

March 13, 2016

submitted article for NorthEscambia.com

The Pensacola Invitational (PI) is a local math competition for elementary and middle school students of Escambia and Santa Rosa County. It was founded with the goal of exposing local students to competitive math in a structure similar to that found at the high school level. Math teams from each school across the county are categorized by their current math class and top contenders for each category are awarded based on their performance in both individual and team round.

For the past seven years, Pensacola High School students have succeeded in making PI a completely student-run event. Because our students run the competition, we are able to make it free to all participants. A former PHS IB student founded the competition in 2009. Following in his footsteps, the organizers of PI have attended some of the top schools in the country. The first year the competition hosted about 30 students; it has since grown into a highly anticipated, 400+, two-county, student event, held this year on March 5th.

“Not only has this competition provided invaluable experience to middle and elementary school students in our area, it has also provided a beneficial leadership role for the students running it,” said PHS Math Teacher and the organization’s sponsor, Jan Sales. “The event runs from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. so PI organizers, Anish Gupta and Carla Dias, even found sponsors so to help them provide lunch to 400 competitors – and that was a lot of pizza!”

What’s next for the members of PI? Preparations for National Pi Day, of course. March 14 has become known as Pi day (3.14159265359…). They will be setting their alarms for 3:14 a.m. to take a moment and welcome in the day. They also urge everyone to treat themselves to something round to eat on Monday, such as a pizza pi, or an apple pi!

4th Grade

Individual

Honorable Mention

Jay- Presley Smith
Pea Ridge- Bradley Allen Kruger
W.H. Rhodes- Justine Stillings
SS Dixon- Tucker Ricks
SS Dixon- Noah Helms
WH Rhodes- Ben Kennington
Jay- Alyssa McKinley
Jay- Mallory Hagan
SS Dixon- Abigail Pettus
WH Rhodes- Bailey Underwood

1st-10th

10th place- WH Rhodes- Ethan Koivn
9th place- Pea Ridge- Haley Hernandez
8th place- Pea Ridge- River Foster
7th place- SS Dixon- Piper Bullock
6th place- SS Dixon- Blake Panepinto
5th place- SS Dixon- Jack Strother
4th place- WH Rhodes- Haydn Baker
3rd place- SS Dixon- Abby McMath
2nd place- WH Rhodes- Carly Goodman
1st place- Pea Ridge- Tori Froman

Team

3rd place- Pea Ridge Team 1
2nd place- SS Dixon Team 4
1st place- WH Rhodes Team 5

5th Grade

Individual

Honorable Mention

SS Dixon- Bethany Dean
SS Dixon- Abigail Henry
SS Dixon- Andrew Fendley
SS Dixon- Hudson Strotner
WH Rhodes- Jacob Gagné
SS Dixon- Isaac Bondurant
Jay- Adam Jones
SS Dixon- Dominic Caruso
WH Rhodes- Jesse Clark
EDS- Nicollete Redmond

1st-10th

10th place- Jay- Jody Godwin
9th place- SS Dixon- James Walker
8th place- WH Rhodes- Jackson Farless
7th place- Bagdad- Jerard Gilmore
6th place- Pea Ridge- Donovan Amann
5th place- Gulf Breeze- Sandra Tu
4th place- EDS- Elizabeth Owens
3rd place- SS Dixon- Meghan Thacker
2nd place- Pea Ridge- Piper Haney
1st place- Gulf Breeze- Brandon Collins

Team

3rd place- EDS Team 1
2nd place- SS Dixon Team 1
1st place- Pea Ridge Team 1

Elementary School Sweepstakes

3rd place- S.S. Dixon
2nd place- Pea Ridge
1st place- W.H. Rhodes

Math I

Individual

Honorable Mention

CLA- Dima Alsheikh
Woodlawn- Andrew Zouloufos
Jay- Megan Bethea
Ransom- Abby Gryskiewicz
Woodlawn- Maliya Gibson
Woodlawn- Samuel Fulton
CLA- Keiji Boozer
Sacred Heart- Scout Tillman
Sacred Heart- Joseph Hauerstein
St. Paul- Tyler Dejong

1st-10th

10th place- Brown Barge- Haden McBroom
9th place- CLA- Marco Ghiglino
8th place- CLA- Davyn Pan
7th place- Jay- Shawn Thompson
6th place- Ferry Pass- Nataniel Agustin
5th place- CLA- Arthur Odom
4th place- Ransom- Andy Tran
3rd place- EDS- Colin “King” Gold
2nd place- CLA- Wassim Khabou
1st place- Ferry Pass- Jason Konopka

Team

3rd place- Woodlawn
2nd place- Jay Team 1
1st place- Brown Barge

Math II

Individual

Honorable Mention

Woodlawn- Leah Elliott
Woodlawn- Dawson Higginbotham
EDS- Graybill Partington
Woodlawn- Carly Russ
Ransom- Liliana Rollins
CLA- Adele Dorion
Jay- Bethany White
EDS- Claire Litvak
CLA- Akeelah Reeves
CLA- Fares Rifai

1st-10th

10th place- CLA- Abigail Asmar
9th place- Woodlawn- Madison Jordan
8th place- Jay- Brody Johnson
7th place- CLA- Hima Humeda
6th place- Workman- Josiah Alexander
5th place- Workman- Kendall Frazee
4th place- Workman- Amara Schoppmann
3rd place- Ferry Pass- Mei Adcox
2nd place- EDS- Noelle Dorvault
1st place- CLA- Annie Pratt

Team

3rd place- EDS Team 1
2nd place- Woodlawn Team 1
1st place- CLA Team 1

Algebra I

Individual

Honorable Mention

CLA- Mehul Kapur
King- Isabella Carpenter
Ferry Pass- Amiyah Green
EDS- Lindsay Lurate
Brown Barge- Zander Preston
EDS- Georgia Seacrest
Brown Barge- Amy Zhang
Ferry Pass- Haylee Dove
Ferry Pass- Vyna Nguyen
Workman- George Thomas Prettyman

1st-10th

10th place- Woodlawn- Allison Linkous
9th place- Workman- Samuel Duong
8th place- CLA- Nicholas Skoufis
7th place- EDS- Hanh-Nhan Tran
6th place- Brown Barge- Rashidi Joseph
5th place- CLA- Luca Benny
4th place- Jay- Jacob Gonzalez
3rd place- EDS- Jett Zhang
2nd place- Brown Barge- Michael Dixon
1st place- Woodlawn-Tanner Struck

Team

3rd place- CLA
2nd place- Woodlawn Team 2
1st place- Brown Barge Team 1

Middle School Sweepstakes

5th place- EDS
4th place- Ferry Pass
3rd place- Brown Barge
2nd place- Woodlawn
1st place- CLA

Comments

3 Responses to “Students Earn Honors At PI Math Competition”

  1. Hanna on January 4th, 2017 7:52 pm

    Good job georg- er thomas nice work proud of you and isabella ^^ coming from workman if you’re wondering, im in the 8th grade there

  2. YAY! on March 14th, 2016 12:12 pm

    WAY TO GO AMARA!!!!!

  3. Kim Stefansson on March 13th, 2016 2:08 pm

    Thank you northescambia.com for running the whole article. For those who know the students behind Pensacola Invitational, this article was written by Carla Dias. Thank you, Carla for submitting your release to ECSD PRC so it could get to this site! KS

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