Math-O-Lympics Winners Announced

DAYTON -- The annual Dayton Public Schools Math-O-Lympics competition was held Dec. 8 at Thurgood Marshall High School, with students in grades four through eight vying to win in a number of numerical and structural competitions. Twenty-one schools competed in this year’s contests, and the following teams were victorious:

Fourth- through sixth-grade group

First Place   

• World of Wonder PreK-8 School (Keith Tracy and Audrey Cleveland, coaches)
• Fourth-grade students: Gordon Ross and Azuria Littlejohn
• Fifth-grade students: Levester Broadnax and Khori Robinson
• Sixth-grade students: DeFranco Nelms and Kayla Spearman

Second place   

• Westwood PreK-8 School (Anna Wright and Leslie Cunningham, coaches)

Third place   

• Eastmont PreK-8 School (Michael VanTine and Sylvia Ervin, coaches)

Fourth place   

• Charity Adams Earley Girls Academy (Karen Jeffries, Kelli Vukovic,
• Megan Christy, Chiara Brown, and Shannon Chester, coaches)

Fifth place   

• Edison PreK-8 School (Robert Hundley, coach)

Sixth place   

• Valerie PreK-8 School (Marcella Barrett and Dana Darling, coaches)

Seventh- and eighth-grade group

• First place    Stivers (Jane Abourezk, coach)

• Seventh-grade students:  Jonathan Farrow and Noah Foskuhl

Eighth-grade students: 

• Omari Gaskins and Shanna Harvey
• Second place    Valerie PK-8 School (Marcella Barrett and Dana Darling, coaches)
• Third place    Meadowdale PreK-8 School (Megan Miracle-Lovett, coach)   
• Fourth place    Rosa Parks PreK-8 School (Dustin Wilker, coach)
• Fifth place    Horace Mann PreK-8 School (Tyler Gilcher, coach)
• Sixth place    World of Wonder PreK-8 School
• (Keith Tracy and Audrey Cleveland, coaches)