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The math team at DoralAcademy Charter compet-ed at the Mu Alpha ThetaState Math Convention inOrlando last month andplaced third overall, thehighest place earned by aMiami-Dade County school.

The team included 40students, and they re-turned home with 50 aca-demic awards in variousmath competitions. Theschool also received twolaptops and a drone.

The first place awardeeswere Anirudh Rahul foranalytic geometry; Dou-glas Shu for alpha applica-tions; and Daniela Her-nandez, Maria Pelayoand Monica Novoa forscrapbook.

Ethan Partidas, Ani-rudh, Dangely Canabal,Marc Marquez, and TaeLee earned a SquirtyChicken Award, whichrecognizes the top 12 stu-dents in each divisionbased on overall perform-ance during the competi-tion season.

The team’s top winnersreceived 38 individualawards and 11 team awardscollectively. These winnersincluded Ethan, with sevenawards; Felipe Contipelli,Anirudh, and Raul Valle,with five awards each;Dangely, KaranveerSandhu, and Logan Fon-tirroche with four awardseach; Tomas Alvarez andTae with three awardseach; and Douglas, AllanDoLago, Bhavya Soni,Carlos Estrada, CarolinaMora and Amanda Fer-nandez with two awardseach.

Individual award win-

ners included Maria Vaz-quez, Jason Bravo, IrenaLian, Marc, CamilleWang, Jesus Nunez,Vivek Brahmatewari,Bradley Ramunas, FelipeDeLaCamara, VanessaRodriguez and Jose Rom-ero.

The team’s sponsor, SamKoski, earned the Sue Dok-er Sponsor of the YearAward for his work in themath community at thestate, regional and locallevels.

WINSTON PARK K-8CENTER

Juliana Ngo and Mat-thew Rojas, seventh-gradestudents at Winston ParkK-8 Center, will be honor-ed on May 9 at FloridaAtlantic University by theDuke University TalentIdentification Program fortheir ACT and SAT scores.

The program identifiesstudents nationwide whohave scored above the 95percentile on a grade-leveltest. The selected studentsthen take a college en-trance exam to learn moreabout their academic abil-ities, and the top scorersare honored at a ceremony.

Juliana and Matthew areboth members of the Na-tional Junior Honor Societyand participate in commu-nity service initiatives attheir school. Juliana is alsothe vice president of theschool’s student body, andMatthew is a member ofthe robotics competitionteam and soccer team.

SCHECK HILLELCOMMUNITY SCHOOL

Matt Levine of ScheckHillel CommunitySchool earned an excellentrating for his snare drum

solo performance in theFlorida Bandmasters Asso-ciation’s State Solo and

Ensemble Adjudication. Healso earned the John PhilipSousa Award from his

school, the top nationalaward for band students.

Since age 7, Matt hasbeen playing the drums. Helater expanded his musiceducation to include differ-ent genres and instruments.He also is active in his com-munity with organizationslike The Friendship Circleand became a leader of theorganization’s North Miamichapter as a sophomore.

Matt plans to study legalstudies and business at theUniversity of Miami afterspending a year in Israel.

THE VILLAGERSSCHOLARSHIPCOMPETITION

Local students from theUniversity of Miami,Florida InternationalUniversity, and Designand Architecture SeniorHigh were among 10 stu-dents to win scholarshipsfrom The Villagers, anorganization dedicated tothe restoration and preser-vation of historic sites inMiami-Dade County.

Recipients from theUniversity of Miami re-ceived $4,500 scholar-ships, and they are DavidHolmes and ShannarO’Connor. Daniella Can-cel received a $4,000scholarship.

Recipients from FloridaInternational Universitywere Carolina Richard-son, $4,000, and KaitlynFuson, $4,500.

Winners from DASHincluded Chloe Castilloand Sheridan Posschellewith $1,200 and TheoNeil Blones with $1,600.

If you have news for thiscolumn, please send it toAdrianne Richardson atschoolscenemia@gmail.com.

SCHOOL SCENE

Doral Academy math students win 50 awardsBY ADRIANNE RICHARDSONschoolscenemia@gmail.com

Photo provided to the Miami Herald

The math students of Doral Academy Charter earned 50 awards at the Mu Alpha Theta State Math Convention inOrlando. The team placed third overall, the highest by any Miami-Dade County school.

Photo provided to the Miami Herald

Carolina Richardson, Daniella Cancel, David Holmes, ShannarO’Connor and Kaitlyn Fuson won scholarships from TheVillagers. They are with scholarship chair Victoria Champion.