HACC Announces Winners in 2018 High School Mathematics Contest

Competition at three HACC campuses includes 26 local high schools

May 16, 2018

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Hempfield High School finished first in the 28^th annual high school mathematics contest at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College. Students Cherie Chen of Lancaster Catholic High School and David Taglieri of Spring Grove High School tied for the individual first-place award.

The competition was held April 20, 2018, using interactive video at HACC’s Harrisburg, Lancaster and Gettysburg campuses. The students completed a series of mathematical problems coordinated by HACC’s math faculty. They had to calculate answers working as a team, individually and in relays.

Team awards also went to Lancaster Catholic High School, which placed second, and Spring Grove High School, which placed third.

In addition to the two first-place individual winners, the remaining top 10 finishers with the highest scores and their high schools were:

Place	Name	High School
Third	Runqi Zhang	Lancaster Mennonite, Lancaster campus
Fourth	Campbell Krulewski	Hempfield
Fifth	Luca Mahoney	Hempfield
Sixth	Brian Liu Aidan McBride Eli Plant Curren Schmitt	Central Dauphin Solanco Carlisle Hempfield
10th	Jacob Atkinson Gus Eberlein Mason Forer	Bishop McDevitt Camp Hill Cumberland Valley

This year’s participating high schools included:

2018 Math Contest Participating Schools
High School	HACC Campus
Annville-Cleona High School, Annville	Harrisburg
Bishop McDevitt High School, Harrisburg	Harrisburg
Boiling Springs High School, South Middleton Township	Harrisburg
Camp Hill High School, Camp Hill	Harrisburg
Carlisle High School, Carlisle	Harrisburg
Central Dauphin High School, Harrisburg	Harrisburg
Cocalico High School, Denver	Lancaster
Columbia High School, Columbia	Lancaster
Cumberland Valley High School, Mechanicsburg	Harrisburg
Dover Area High School, Dover	Gettysburg
Eastern York High School, Wrightsville	Lancaster
Elizabethtown Area High School, Elizabethtown	Harrisburg
Greenwood High School, Millerstown	Harrisburg
Harrisburg Christian School, Harrisburg	Harrisburg
Hempfield High School, Landisville	Harrisburg
Lancaster Catholic High School, Lancaster	Lancaster
Lancaster Mennonite School, Hershey Campus	Harrisburg
Lancaster Mennonite School, Lancaster Campus	Lancaster
Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School, Mechanicsburg	Harrisburg
New Oxford High School, New Oxford	Gettysburg
Northeastern Senior High School, Manchester	Harrisburg
Northern High School, Dillsburg	Gettysburg
Shippensburg Area Senior High School, Shippensburg	Gettysburg
Solanco High School, Quarryville	Lancaster
Spring Grove High School, Spring Grove	Gettysburg
Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville	Harrisburg

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