Hanes Magnet Team Places First in MATHCOUNTS Competition

Benjamin Armentrout, John Hubbar, Joah Macosko, Jackson Vandergriff with coach Adam Cross

On Saturday, the team from Hanes Magnet School – coached by math teacher Adam Cross - placed first in the MATHCOUNTS competition at N.C. A&T State University.

Team members are Benjamin Armentrout, John Hubbar, Joah Macosko and Jackson Vandergriff.

Benjamin also placed first in the Countdown Round.

“Congratulations to the Math Counts team at Hanes for their outstanding performance,” said Velvet Simington, the school system’s k-12 Mathematics Director. “Also, a special thank you to Adam Cross for serving as their coach and continuing to promote their annual participation in MATHCOUNTS.

Problem-solving opportunities in varied and rich forms provide a catalyst to deeper mathematical understanding. Way to go!”

The Hanes students will be compete in the state competition in March.

The competition was sponsored by the North Piedmont Chapter of Professional Engineers of North Carolina. All middle schools from Alamance, Caswell, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham and Stokes where invited, and more than 120 students from 17 schools competed in four rounds of math tests to determine the winners.

The event sponsors were:

ASHRAE North Piedmont Chapter

Greensboro Engineers Club

North Carolina A&T State University

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems 

AC Corporation

IEEE Central NC Section

James M Pleasants CO, INC

KLEINFELDER

Xavier Barrett

Evonik Corporation

For more information about MATHCOUNTS please visit http://mathcounts.org