95 Pearland ISD students competed in the Texas Math and Science Coaches Association State Competition on March 29th at the University of Texas at San Antonio. TMSCA, formed by Texas math and science teachers, promotes excellence in math and science through competition. Throughout the year, students participated in local competitions to earn qualifying scores for the state event.
Students from Jamison, Rogers, Sablatura Middle Schools and Berry Miller Junior High, Pearland Junior High East, and Pearland Junior High West participated in the state meet. Trophies were awarded to those placing 1st – 10th and medals to those finishing 11th – 20th. Pearland ISD is incredibly proud of all the students who participated.
Awards in the 6A division include:
Individual Awards
Berry Miller Junior High
Science, 11th place – Tianyi Zhao, 7th grade
Pearland Junior High West
Number Sense, 20th place – Sulan Yang, 7th grade
Calculator, 7th place – Cathy Gu, 7th grade
Calculator, 10th place – An Vo, 8th grade
Calculator, 13th place – Junxi Zhang, 8th grade
Calculator, 17th place – Sean Liu, 8th grade
Calculator, 20th place – Jinoo Kim, 8th grade
General Math, 12th place – Bella Mao, 7th grade
General Math, 15th place – Hannah Zhang, 8th grade
General Math, 20th place – Zoey Xu-Rui, 8th grade
Science 12th place – Louie Loughran, 7th grade
Science, 11th place – Joshua Meng, 8th grade
Science, 18th place – Stella Shen, 8th grade
Science 19th place – Jinoo Kim, 8th grade
Sablatura Middle School
Number Sense, 9th place – Zekai (Bryson) Wu, 6th grade
Calculator, 4th place – Zekai(Bryson) Wu, 6th grade
Calculator, 6th place – Peiroan Ding, 6th grade
Calculator, 7th place – Anne He, 6th grade
Calculator, 10th place – Luke He, 6th grade
Calculator, 19th place – Gloria Zhang, 6th grade
General Math, 15th place – Zekai (Bryson) Wu, 6th grade
General Math, 18th place – Shrivardhan Boini, 6th grade
Pearland ISD Coaches included Melissa Laudig from PJH South, Jill Laird from Berry Miller JH, Cody Sanderlin, Bhavani Venkataramanan and Jamie Williams from PJH West, Jennifer Phillips and Rajaharia Neelam from Rogers MS, Margaret Needler, Jacqui Singleton, Christine Sadler, Abarna Palani and Kasey Hart from Sablatura MS, Amy Schrenk from PJH East, Tina D’Astoli from Alexander MS and Deborah Van Aken from Sam Jamison MS.