Middle School Students Show Off Stupefying Math Skills
Published Februray 3, 2020
Middle school students across the district took a trip to Hogwarts for the Harry Potter-themed Mini Mu competition January 25.
Students solved pre-algebra, algebra and geometry problems without the need of a magic wand. With categories like Deathly Equations and the Sorcerer’s Cone, it was proven that math doesn’t have to be boring. The competition was put on by Brentwood High’s Mu Alpha Theta chapter.
Listed below are the students who were recognized in their categories:
Prisoners of Algebra
- Eric Chen, Brentwood Middle
- Sunay Agarwal, Page Middle
- Katie Wang, Brentwood Middle
- Brayden Zhang, Woodland Middle
- Andrew Gan, Brentwood Middle
- Daniel Guo, Brentwood Middle
- Neel Jain, Sunset Middle
- Aditya Shreekanth, Woodland Middle
- Katherine Perez, Brentwood Middle
- John Choi, Brentwood Middle
Sorceror's Cone
- Luke Haws, Brentwood Middle
- Sophie McAtee, Woodland Middle
- Shaunak Moghe, Brentwood Middle
- Rajveer Chaudhury, Sunset Middle
- Patrick Xu, Woodland Middle
- Rinaz Jamal, Grassland Middle
- Sophia Wang, Woodland Middle
- Jacob Dong, Brentwood Middle
- John Beck, Woodland Middle
Chamber of Equations
- Adam Rakhmanov, Woodland Middle
- Claire Zhang, Brentwood Middle
- Nathan Hoggard, Spring Station Middle
- Gordon Sheng, Brentwood Middle
- Desmond Thomas, Woodland Middle
- Mary Moore, Woodland Middle
- Brodi Melzony, Sunset Middle
- Varun Kilaru, Woodland Middle
- Joseph Larson, Woodland Middle
- Edwin Chen, Heritage Middle
- Fred Xiao, Brentwood Middle
- David Sirko, Brentwood Middle
- Prithvi Patil, Woodland Middle
Deathly Equations
- Katie Wang, Brentwood Middle
- Andrew Gan, Brentwood Middle
- Brayden Zhang, Woodland Middle
- Manu Kalasikam, Sunset Middle
- Sunay Agarwal, Page Middle
- Eric Chen, Brentwood Middle
- John Choi, Brentwood Middle
- Aditya Shreekanth, Woodland Middle
- Katherine Perez, Brentwood Middle
- Pranav Sathu, Brentwood Middle
Half-Blood Plane
- Teruyoshi Kurasawa, Sunset Middle
- Riya Koranne, Page Middle
- Camden Walker, Woodland Middle
- Sophie McAtee, Woodland Middle
- Luke Haws, Brentwood Middle
- Shaunak Moghe, Brentwood Middle
- Saisarath Ravilla, Page Middle
- Patrick Xu, Woodland Middle
- Aryan Kabaria, Sunset Middle
- Maria Chaklasi, Brentwood Middle
Order of Operations
- Abigail Kaupilla, Woodland Middle
- Desmond Thomas, Woodland Middle
- Mary Moore,, Woodland Middle
- Gordon Sheng Brentwood Middle
- Ellison Abromowitz, Brentwood Middle
- Edwin Chen, Heritage Middle
- Joseph Johnson, Brentwood Middle
- David Sirko, Brentwood Middle
- Fred Xiao, Brentwood Middle
- Ruhee Gupta, Woodland Middle
- Shawn Kumar, Woodland Middle
- Nathan Hoggard, Spring Station Middle
- Claire Zhang, Brentwood Middle