Episcopal Team Places Second at Baton Rouge High Mu Alpha Theta Tournament

February 10th, 2020

Mu Alpha Theta

On Saturday, February 1st Episcopal placed 2nd in Division 1 at the Baton Rouge High Mu Alpha Theta math tournament. The tournament was attended by 222 students from 16 schools. Episcopal brought 39 students in grades 5th – 12th that competed in subjects from Algebra 1 to Calculus BC.

Individual Tests
Algebra 1
1st Luke Stelly

Geometry
2nd Joie Lee
Honorable Mention – Ahebwa Muhumuza

Algebra 2
2nd Joey Roth
Honorable Mention – Akshay Basireddy and Autumn Reynolds

Precalculus
2nd Joy Lee

Calculus BC
2nd James Christian
Honorable Mention – Arya Patel

Team Tests
1st Algebra 1 – Luke Stelly, Nate McLean, Autumn Baldridge Anshu Padigala

2nd Comprehensive Math 1 – Hayden Singh, Hayden Willett, Joie Lee, Rebekah Reid

3rd Comprehensive Math 1.5 – Scott McAdams, Akshay Basireddy, Shreya Kamath

2nd Comprehensive Math 2 – Tanvi Dhaka, Aadit Narayanan, Joy Lee, Eugene Jiang

1st Calculus A – Savannah York, Shuhei Niwano, Evan Jurkovic

2nd Calculus B – James Christian, Arya Patel, Elaine Gboloo

1st Lower Interschool

3rd Upper Interschool

Joan Moroney

Joan Moroney began teaching in 2007. She has taught Honors Geometry, Algebra II, and Honors Algebra II at Episcopal and is a co-sponsor of the Mu Alpha Theta math competition team. Before coming to Episcopal in 2014, Joan taught high school credit math courses to gifted students at Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge. She has a Bachelor of Science in secondary mathematics education from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in education from Louisiana State University in gifted education.

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