It’s 13 straight for McMichael Middle School’s MathCounts team.
Benjamin Serna, Benjamin Grabowski, Ashton Milstead and Lyle French took first place in February at the chapter competition. Benjamin Grabowski finished second overall, and Ashton was third place in the countdown round. McMichael teacher Brittany Combs is in her first year as coach of the team.
Those 13 state qualifications are also how long a MathCounts team has existed within Nacogdoches ISD. The team started out at Mike Moses Middle School then moved to McMichael when the two campuses were combined in 2022.
MathCounts is a national middle school coaching and competitive mathematics program that promotes mathematics achievement through a series of fun and engaging "bee" style contests.
MathCounts is a nationwide program that promotes math excellence for sixth, seventh and eighth-grade students and is considered the premiere math academic competition for middle school students in the United States.
Once in the competition, students compete head-to-head regardless of their grade; sixth-graders could be lined up against eighth-graders.