Mathletes Place at Louisiana MA0 State Convention

This past weekend, 724 students from 33 schools traveled to Baton Rouge to compete in the annual Louisiana Mu Alpha Theta State Convention. The Brother Martin Crusader Mathletes had an excellent showing earning multiple awards, placing seventh in Overall Sweepstakes and third in Quality Sweepstakes. “I think our guys did a great job! I’m really glad that in my final year in Mu Alpha Theta, we were able to do better than we had done in any of my other years in MA0. It’s really nice to see the club grow, and I just hope that whoever I hand the reins over to will be able to help our MA0 success increase without bound,” said Jonathan Gacharna, Club President.

The Brother Martin Mu Alpha Theta Club won the following Awards at the 2017 Louisiana Mu Alpha Theta State Convention:

7th Place in Sweepstakes (overall performance award)
3rd Place in Quality Sweepstakes (The top six schools earn a Sweepstakes Trophy. Of the remaining schools, the ratio of Sweepstakes Points divided by the Number of Students competing creates their Quality Sweepstakes Score.)

Door Prizes:
Good Dinosaur Pop-Up Egg: Emmanuel Levy
Dinosaur Pillow Pet: Ryan O’Rourke

Area Tests:
Theta – Geometry-Scott Hew – 11th Place
Mu A – Differentiation-Justin Levy – 12th Place
Mu A – Integration-Les Levy – 8th Place
|Mu B- Joseph Aguda – 2nd place and John Paul Ledet – 5th Place
Open – Functions -Jeremy Baier – 5th Place
Open – History of Math -Josh Bedran – 1st Place
Open – Puzzlements – Patrick Newburger – 3rd place and Michael Barkemeyer – 4th Place

Individual Tests:
Mu A – Justin Levy – 12th Place and Jonathan Gacharna – 17th Place
Mu B – Thinh Nguyen – 10th Place

Games:

Descartes:
Alpha Y Ho – 1st place and Trey Andrews – 2nd Place
Mu A -Hunter Mathas – 2nd place and Les Levy – 8th Place
Mu B- Jackson Vicknair – 6th Place

Gemini:
Mu A -Team of Austin Kain and Thang Nguyen – 3rd Place
Hustle -Team of Jeremy Baier, Aaron Daniels, Brett Hildreth, and Justin Chambers – 9th Place
Team of Justin Levy, Alex Genois, Dillon Rousset, and Scott Hew – 10th Place

Ciphering / Math Bowl:
Alpha Team of John Buchert, Scott Johnston, Kyle Kaough, and Thomas Le – 12th Place
Mu A -Team of Jacob Detiege, Jonathan Gacharna, Andrew Grefer, and Ryan O’Rourke – 3rd Place
Mu B -Team of Joseph Aguda, Michael Barkemeyer, John Paul Ledet, and Thinh Nguyen ‘18 – 6th Place

Interschool:
Mu -Team of Joseph Aguda, Jeremy Baier, Michael Barkemeyer, John Paul Ledet, Thinh Nguyen, Jackson Vicknair, Jacob Detiege, Jonathan Gacharna, Andrew Grefer, Austin Kain, Les Levy, Justin Levy, Hunter Mathas, Patrick Newburger,Thang Nguyen, Nathan Nguyen, Ryan O’Rourke, and Branden Stewart- 3rd Place

For Overall Sweepstakes, the Crusaders (193) were only for points away from sixth place (197) and 12 points away from fifth place (205).

“I think we’ve got a great group of guys returning next year. We’re going to build upon our successes in 2017 and come back even stronger in 2018. We’ve already started working on plans to make next year an even stronger year in MA0, especially at the 2018 State Convention.”- Jeremy Baier, Club Vice President

“What an exciting experience! I’m really glad that we performed as valiantly as we did, especially the Mu A Math Bowl Team. My only regret is that I didn’t join MA0 until my senior year. I really want to urge underclassmen to join this amazing club!”- Ryan O’ Rourke, MA0-Rookie

“I was so lucky to be a member of the State Board this year. Every one of us worked really hard to put on a great Convention for all students across the state of Louisiana. I know that I am putting State MA0 in good hands by handing things over to Aaron Daniels.”- Hunter Mathas, State MA0 Secretary-Treasurer

“I am really excited about everything that we can do next year. I think 2018 will be even better than 2017. I want to thank Mr. McClain, Mr. Skyta and Mrs. Brocato for being with us all year and doing a great job of raising our math skills to the point where we had as much success as we did at the Convention.”– Aaron Daniels, 2017-2018 State MA0 Secretary-Treasurer