2024-2025 FOX CHAPEL AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT # FCProud
PASSION IN FOCUS
Our passion pillar embodies the need to make learning exciting and relevant for students.
• Four DMS students placed first in the Allegheny Intermediate Unit CalcuSolve competition: eighth-graders Rishabh Krishnamurthy and Linden Trac, and seventh-graders Shengfeng Fei and Brian Xu. In the individual portion of the contest, all four of these students also won first-place awards by earning perfect scores of 35. Eighth-graders Delaney Liu and Zoey Liu each scored 33 points, earning them second place in the individual portion of the contest.
• A team of DMS seventh-graders ranked first out of 30 teams in Pennsylvania in the Purple Comet Math Meet: Moxley Chiu, Samuel Ettinger, Shengfeng Fei, Akhil Muvvala, Louis Vandapel, and Brian Xu. In addition to being the first-place team in the state, the group ranked 16th out of 298 teams in the United States and also received an honorable mention designation for its international rank of 38th out of 1,047 teams.
• Six elementary school students placed in the 2024 grades 5-6 CalcuSolve competition. Fairview Elementary School fifth-graders Daniel Wu and Samuel Barritt, and Kerr Elementary School fifth-grader Stephen Lei all tied for second place. Additionally, the Fairview Elementary School team of fifth-graders Finnegan Frank, Eleanor Hoff, James Minor, and Daniel Wu were among the top teams by winning third place.
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