ANNOUNCEMENTS

Students in Grades 4-12 are invited to celebrate NY State's 400th birthday by writing an historical essay on the state's Dutch roots in one of three areas:  religious tolerance, freedom of speech, and/or New York as a center of world trade.  A $500 cash prize will be given to students in each of three divisions:  Grades 4-5; Grades 6-8; and Grades 9-12.  For contest guidelines and submission information, visit www.nysha.org and click on "Essay Contest" on the bottom left corner of the page.

The FMS Math Counts team and alternates have been chosen and will begin preparing for the Math Counts Regional Competition which will be held at the General Electric Research and Development on February 28.  Congratulations to team members Zubin Mukerjee, Matt Gu, Luxi Peng, and Julia Xiong.  Lisu Sung actually tied with Julia for fourth place, but he will unfortunately be leaving our school in January and will be unable to participate in the regional contest.  The alternates are Max Chao, Brandon Rathwell, Hannah Liu, and Justina Liu.  Isaac Malsky also tied for the last two alternate spots - the tie was broken by referring to the Sprint Round score from the school contest.  Congratulations to all of these students for their hard work in preparing for the school contest.

Answers from the UP Enrichment newsletter sample Math Counts questions:  Target Round question answer:  120 minutes; Sprint Round question answer:  14 pounds.

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