Disclaimer: 42Fifty staff members Sasha Pankuch and Jayden Doty are members of Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society but did not participate in the creation of this article.
The OH chapter Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society, did an outstanding job presenting its most anticipated event of the year: The Junior High Math Competition.
“The math competition is a junior high math competition that we hold every year and it’s our biggest event,” Mu Alpha Theta Historian Jordan Trader said.
Students from the five middle schools in the district were competing against each other, in both a team and individual setting, taking place around the main gym, language hall, and freshmen hall at OH.
“It is a friendly competition between the five Junior Highs that is broken into two parts per grade level–an individual test and then a team test,” said Traughber math teacher, Julie Benoit.
This year, young brains from different grades placed in the math competition, winning prizes and awards for their proficiency on the exams.
Mu Alpha Theta prepared to ensure everything was ready for the competition, prepping on what questions to ask, and organizing the event as a whole.
“ almost all of our meetings we have been making test questions, checking answer keys, and basically putting the members in jobs that they would want to do to help with the competition such as proctoring or entertaining,” Trader said.
The vice president was in charge of running the competition but also left plenty of room for any additional help from the members. Everyone in Mu Alpha Theta had a role in the competition to make sure the competition was up to its standards.
“To make sure everything was ready I just checked with the vice president and double-checked everything he did,” President Connor Johnson said. “I stayed in communication with our sponsor and other board members and just made sure we are all ready.”
Mu Alpha Theta has been confidently hosting the Junior High Competition for years, never failing to deliver, and being a true role model for future high school students who may be interested in joining the honors society someday.
“The competition will tell us about the message of the math honor society, which is to get people excited and engaged in math,” Trader said.
“The competition does this by engaging the junior high kids in math and the math competitions so that hopefully by the time they get to high school they are interested in math and then becoming part of the honor society as well.”
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