Three Discovery Middle School students earned medals at MathCON, the prestigious national math competition that took place in Chicago on April 23, 2016. 

Seventh grader Grace Waddell earned a Bronze Medal. Grace finished in the top 20 among the thousands of students at her grade level. 

Eighth graders Seunghoon Sun and Lyvia LI each finished as a Silver Medalist. They placed in the Top Ten among all gold and silver medalists. 

Fourteen other Discovery students qualified to participate and traveled to the Chicago event.  They are: 

• 6th Grade: Eric Yun and Hunter Striegel

• 7th Grade: Peter Sullivan, Ethan Yoder, Reagan Hoke, Anya Tang, Camden Kaminsky and Shubham Lahane

• 8th Grade: Tara Devaraj, Andy Kaboski, Dustin Smith, Jeffrey Du, Rajeev Datta and Noah Lang

Mathcon is a popular math competition for students in grades 5-12. More than 45,000 students from 330 schools in 42 different states take the qualifying test. Based on those test results, only the top 100 students from each grade level compete at the national finals. 

Camden Kaminsky, Discovery 7th grader, reported that participating in the MathCON competition was a great experience for him.  All the students, coaches, and chaperones who were involved expressed their pride in the group’s effort and the individual outcomes!