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SCF Faculty Holds Math ACES Competition for High School Seniors

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June 25, 2021 – Sarasota

Twelfth-grade math students from public and private high schools across Manatee and Sarasota counties faced off this spring in the annual Math ACES competition organized by State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota (SCF). The contest was first created at SCF Venice in 1996 to encourage and reward math excellence.

Like years past, SCF’s mathematics department faculty members created, administered and graded exam questions in algebra, geometry, precalculus, calculus, statistics and probability. Winners from each participating school were: Jailyn Gentile, Booker High School; Sean Davis, Braden River High School; Emma Swaagman, Bradenton Christian School; David Dinh, Lakewood Ranch High School; Madison Burt, Manatee High School; Ethan Youmans, North Port High School; Jonathan Klepper, Palmetto High School; Kyle Pearson, Riverview High School; Tyler Katchen, Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School; Tyson Swihart, Sarasota Military Academy; Drake Mann, State College of Florida Collegiate School; Kyle Smith, Suncoast Polytechnical High School; and Aiden Beechy, Venice High School.

The top scorer from each of the 13 participating high schools received a $150 cash award and a certificate of recognition.

The name Math ACES comes from the event’s original sponsor, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The 2021 sponsors were the American Society of Civil Engineers SunCoast Branch, the American Public Works Association Suncoast Branch, the Myakka Chapter of the Florida Engineering Society and CPH Engineers Inc. in Sarasota, FL.

For more information, contact Cathy Panik at PanikC@SCF.edu or 941-408-1491.

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