Honorable mention goes to Ravenwood student

Brentwood Home Page news reports
Siegfried Schlurk of Brentwood High School was one of 10 individual contest winners at the UT-Pro2Serve Math Contest at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville recently.

Schlurk, competing against 600 students from 58 Tennessee high schools, received a four-year, $4,000 scholarship along with the others who scored in the top 10.

Honorable mentions, which include winners that would have won this year but won a previous year, include Frances Ding of Ravenwood High School.

Other winners were Aditya Gudibanda of Hume-Fogg Academy, Nashville; Kevin Sun and Brandon Zheng of Collierville High; Daniel Zuo of White Station High School, Memphis; Garret Sullivan and Richard Ouyang of Memphis University School; Yang Song of McCallie School, Chattanooga; Jared Schaumann of Page High School, Franklin; and Dylan Young of University School of Nashville.

Winners of the first round of the individual contest included Gudiband, Zuo, Young, Jiahe Gu from Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet in Nashville, and Sullivan.

Winners were chosen based on their scores on an essay-type exam that tested their knowledge on algebra I and II and geometry.

The contest also featured the Math Bowl, double-elimination team competition. University School of Nashville was the overall winner of the Math Bowl, followed by Collierville High School. First place in the small-school category went to University School of Nashville, with second place going to Fred J. Page High School.

All winners received trophies, plaques and certificates in recognition of excellence at different stages of the competition.

The contest is presented by the College of Arts and Sciences mathematics department and UT alumnus Barry Goss and his company, Professional Project Services Inc. (Pro2Serve®). Pro2Servie provides technical and engineering services that support the infrastructures of government and private industry and helps ensure our nation's security.

Scholarships are funded by UT Knoxville and Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek.