FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2017 Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School s HISTORIC Math Teams WIN in Two Competitions Simultaneously: CSP

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1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2017 Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School s HISTORIC Math Teams WIN in Two Competitions Simultaneously: CSP s LEGENDARY HS Math Team Wins AACC High School Math Competition s Season for the ASTOUNDING 6 th Year in-a-row CSP s LEGENDARY MS Math Team Wins MathCOUNTS Annapolis Chapter Regional Competition for the 9 th Year-in-a-Row!

2 On February 25 th, 2017 The Chesapeake Science Point (CSP) Public Charter School s high school math team won the Anne Arundel Community College s (AACC) High School Math Competition s season-long competition for the sixth year in a row! This astounding winning streak is even more impressive considering that this is only the seventh year that CSP has offered high school to Anne Arundel County Public School students. On the other side of the AACC campus, the Middle school teammates were also competing in the MathCOUNTS Annapolis Chapter Regional Competitions and won overall as the First Place Team! Adding, individuals also placed and the team qualifies for the MathCOUNTS State Competitions coming up in April 2017! This marks the 9th year in a row that CSP s Middle School math team has earned the award for being the first place team at this event. This incredible winning streak is a strong testament to the hard work put in by all the students, their coaches, and the strong support the CSP math team receives from the students families and school leadership! At the AACC math competition, CSP senior Anthony Krieger and CSP freshman Oumarr Bah were two of only six students from today s competition to earn a perfect score in the individual round, earning them an apple for the AACC Math Professors that organize this competition. Their score s combined with their teammate, Benjamin Kelm, also a graduating senior, to have CSP in a 3-way tie for first place after the individual round. The team of Anthony, Ben and Oumarr were joined by CSP seniors Matthew Boyer and Nina Smilek in the team round, where they answered three of the six very challenging questions correctly to earn CSP a Second Place finish in the fifth and final competition of the season. The CSP Team s legendary status continues with this 6 th consecutive overall First Place finish in the five-event competition season! As season long individual results were announced, students with top scoring results earn the Donald Wertz Memorial Award, including their choice of an advanced mathematics book to commemorate the award. CSP s Anthony Krieger was the competitions highest scoring individual for the year, correctly answering 29 out of the possible 30 individual round questions over the five competitions in this year AACC High School Math Competition season, a fantastic result considering that the next closest student from any of the fourteen schools competing this season scored 25 correct! Adding, CSP freshman, Oumarr Bah, also earned this award for answering 23 questions correctly over the season! Other top scoring CSP students for the season include Benjamin Kelm, Ryan Budahazy, Matthew Boyer, Nina Smilek and Connor Parker. Adding, CSP sophomore Connor Parker also received special recognition for being the most improved individual from any of the schools in this years competition. Results from today s competition and the season long totals are: AACC Season Totals 02/25/17 Chesapeake Science Point Severna Park HS Severn School Archbishop Spalding

3 The Key School South River HS Old Mill HS Chesapeake HS Indian Creek School North County HS Broadneck HS Southern HS Arundel HS Annapolis HS CSP has been represented at this year s competition season by: 8 th graders: Cole Parker and Nethmi Weerasinghe 9 th grader: Oumarr Bah 10 th graders: Mark Kelm, Hana Motta, Ayomikun Oyemade, Connor Parker, Cory Powers, Cecilia Ramirez, Nathan Taylor, Stanley Zhu & Bosith Weerasinghe. 11 th graders: Kenneth Glenn Boyette and Kaitlin White 12 th graders: Matthew Boyer, Ryan Budahazy, Benjamin Kelm, David Kravets, Anthony Krieger and Nina Smilek

4 CSP s Graduating Seniors at Today s Contest: Benjamin Kelm, David Kravets, Matthew Boyer, Anthony Krieger and Nina Smilek

5 CLF & CSP would like to offer special congratulations to four of our graduating seniors: Ryan Budahazy, Benjamin Kelm, David Kravets and Anthony Krieger whom have all been part of this incredible winning streak since it began, when they were in the 7 th grade! Our CSP Middle School Team competed MathCOUNTS Annapolis Chapter Regional Competition and WON FIRST PLACE, qualifying for Maryland State Finals in March 2017! As the results were announced, CSP students earned trophies for being the top team over all. Seven CSP students earned the right to advance to the Maryland Statewide MathCOUNTS Competition to be held at Johns Hopkins University on March 18, 2017, where they'll compete with the top students from over 100 Maryland schools that take part in the MathCOUNTS competition program. CSP s top scoring students today were: First Place Team: Druva Kothari, Om Mehta, Anagha Sandeep and Emily Zhu 4 th Place Individual: Imaad Syed 5th Place Individual: Druva Kothari 6th Place Individual: Anagha Sandeep 9th Place Individual: Om Mehta 14th Place Individual: Joseph Zimmerman 15th Place Individual: Emily Zhu 20 th Place Individual: Aaban Syed CSP Middle School Math Team is composed of the following students: 6 th graders: Roshan Ahmad, Jeffrey Huang, Emily Liu, Shiyam Rupeshkumar, Nasier Sturdivant; 7 th graders: Darsana Alagarsamy, Rishi Erigineni, Raine Ingulia, Katrina Manalang, Hannah Sullivan, Aaban Syed and Joseph Zimmerman; 8 th graders: Zeshan Ahmad, Mueez Chaudry, Aaraon Chu, Druva Kothari, Isa Liggans, Manalang Jordan, Om Mehta, Ololade Omoniyi-Alake, Cole Parker, Akash Prasad, Anagha Sandeep, Imaad Syed, Nethmi Weerasinghe and Emily Zhu.

6 Chesapeake Science Point students earn these outstanding results due to their hard work and dedication as well as that of their teachers, coaches and parents. CSP s Math Team would like to thank CSP s Mathematics Department Chair & Coach, Mrs. Imelda Valencia, as well as CSP Math Teachers: Mrs. Merlina Bogador, Mrs. Diana Stinson, Mr. Vincent Njong. Also, thanks to HS Head Coach & parent volunteer, Mr. Bernie Kelm & parent volunteer / coach Mr. Jim Powers! Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School was founded by the Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation in 2005, was recently recognized by Niche as the 2017 BEST CHARTER SCHOOL IN MARYLAND and is a nationally recognized public charter school with a strong focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). For more information on CLF Schools, visit & visit the CSP website at: Warmest regards, Mark J. Sutherland Community Partnerships Director Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation 6151 Chevy Chase Dr. Laurel, MD T. (301) Ext.#104 F. (240) E. msutherland@clfmd.org