LBMS Mathcounts Team Brings Home Trophy

LBMS MATHCOUNTS team (l to r) Coach Mark Stewart, Jason Zhang, Davin Amy, Richard Garber, Matthew Sarsam, Christopher Haddad, Rahul Jain, Kenneth Li, Gabrielle Kim, Samantha Thomas, Stephanie Randar and Coach Anne Dill.

Westlake’s Lee Burneson Middle School team took home the third place trophy for the MATHCOUNTS Competition at Lorain County Community College on Feb. 27. Eighth grader Richard Garber earned the fourth place overall individual score.

MATHCOUNTS is a nationwide middle school competition held across the country and sponsored by the CAN Foundation, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Anne Dill, gifted specialist and contest advisor for Westlake Schools, has advised the MATHCOUNTS program at LBMS since the early 1990s.