The Maine School of Science and Mathematics (MSSM) took first place in the Maine State Math Meet held recently at the Augusta Civic Center.

Over 900 students participated and MSSM representatives won 5 medals. Brett Foster, a senior from Fairfield, earned the only perfect score and received the George Millay Award, named after the Maine native who helped establish the New England Math League. Foster exclaimed, "I was excited that all of my hard work from over the past 4+ years has paid off. This will certainly help me in my future career in the STEM field."

The MSSM Math Team consisted of 10 students: Tobyn Blatt, a senior from Brunswick; Brett Foster; Wyatt Giroux, a senior from Wales; David Govoni, a senior from Skowhegan; James Hawkes, a sophomore from Portland; Jordan Theriault, a junior from Caribou; Ethan Winters, a junior from Farmington; Hyoju Kweon, a junior from South Korea; Jack Kang, a junior from South Korea; Wesley Chalmers, a freshman from Scarborough; and Eunice Liu was the alternate. Wyatt Giroux shared, "I feel like the Maine Association of Math Leagues has been helpful in preparing me for the critical thinking that I will need in engineering, which is what I plan to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

Five of the ten members earned medals at the event. Brett Foster captured the first place spot for both the event and the overall regular season. David Govoni, who plans to attend the University of Maine, was third in the meet and sixth for the regular season. James Hawkes took first place for 10th graders and fourth in the regular season. Ethan Winters received first place for 11th graders and seventh for the regular season and Jack Kang received eighth place for 11th graders.

This was the last math meet for Pete Pedersen, Math Department Chair at MSSM, as he will be retiring from teaching at the end of this school year. He has taken the MSSM team to the State Meet for 16 years and chaired the meet from 1991 to 2008.

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