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Coshocton students take part in plethora of academic events
Barbara Breen’ s students in sixth grade through eighth grade have been working hard to challenge themselves and achieve their goals at a high level.
Ten students have been working since September to learn and apply advanced math concepts as part of the MathCounts Competition Team.
During weekly meetings with their coaches Breen and Jacqueline Prouty, students endeavored to learn complex geometry and algebra calculations and to think outside the box to solve 40 noncalculator problems in 30 minutes during the sprint round.
During the target round, students worked to solve a pair of problems in six minutes, completing a total of eight problems. Finally, there was the team round, where a group of four students collaborated to solve 10 problems in 20 minutes.
This year one of Coshocton’ s Mathletes, Cameille Leist, earned a place in the state competition in Columbus.
Thanks to a grant from the Coshocton Foundation, 14 students in sixth grade through eighth grade represented Coshocton City Schools in the U. S. Legislative Summit, which was held at Salt Fork Lodge.
Working in teams, students chose a state to represent and researched all aspects of that state including its history, tourism sites, topography, famous citizens and the current laws.
During their research students evaluated current laws and looked for areas of concern within their chosen state that might need an updated and amended version of a law or perhaps a new law written to address a current issue within that state. Working together, students either amend or create a bill that, if passed, would potentially become a law in their chosen state.
This year Coshocton City Schools represented three states: Connecticut, represented by the sixth grade team; Louisiana, represented by the seventh grade team; and Wyoming, represented by the eighth grade team.
Team Connecticut wrote an updated school safety bill encouraging schools in Connecticut to use federally provided grant money to update and enhance school security systems that were initially put into place following the tragedy in Sandy Hook in 2012. Their research determined modern portal metal detectors have been shown to be much more effective than the original handheld wand system.
Team Louisiana proposed legislation that would give members of the military and veterans an extended time period( 120 days versus the current 30 days) to receive mental health services for PTSD and other disorders, as long as progress is shown within the first 90 days. Team Wyoming proposed the Mathew Shepard Bill, which would institute a law against hate crimes in the state of Wyoming. Self-proclaiming itself as the Equality State, Wyoming currently lacks any sort of legislation that would prevent and prosecute hate crimes of any
nature within that state.
In addition to writing their bill, creating opening and closing arguments for their bill, and debating the pros and cons of all the bills presented, each team created a commercial advertising their bill and a website that had links to all their research, their bill and their commercial. Team members also took academic tests in the areas of geography, citizenship and current events, and some wrote an essay on a legislative topic.
The members of team Connecticut were Braylon Baker, Alexis Fender, David Matthews and Nicholas Zimmerman.
Team Louisiana included Payzin Davis, Daniel Fender, Cameille Leist, Nora Harstine, Ella Lawson and Will Snider.
Team Wyoming had four members: Isabella Aquila, Aubree Bantum, Faith Kriner and LeeAnn Noon.
Nick Zimmerman won a medal for his score on the Citizenship Test, and LeeAnn Noon and Ella Lawson received Leadership Awards.
Coshocton also had students participate in the Science Olympiad on both the high school and junior high level. Students worked for weeks constructing models, learning formulas and researching topics to prepare for the event.
Fourteen students and their coaches— Barb Snyder for high school and Breen for junior high— traveled to Rocky River High School outside of Cleveland for the tournament. Students worked hard engaging in three or more tests, labs, demonstrations and builds in subjects such as astron-
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