Friday, April 24, 2009

Lapeer East, Lapeer West math and science students excel at Metro League meet

Individual students from Lapeer East and Lapeer West achieved high honors at a Flint Metro League Math and Science competition held Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at Holly High School.

Three Lapeer high school students, two from Lapeer East and one from Lapeer West took first place in their subjects. Three Lapeer West students achieved second place finishes and one Lapeer East student took second place. Two Lapeer East students took third place in science and math subjects.

The students competed against math and science students from the ten Flint Metro League schools.

Winners were: Josh Francis (West) first place in Calculus; Daniel Pierce (East) first place in biology; Michael Puskar (East) first place in biology lab; Dan Barker (West) second place in Physics; Brad Deane (West) second place in statistics; Kaleb Elwert (East) second in pre-Calculus; Kevin Roach (West) second place for Chemistry lab; Nick McHardy (East) third place in statistics; and Mark Stefani (East) third place in Physics lab.

“We are proud of the hard work and skill exhibited by our students at West,” said West teacher Kristen Wilcox.

“The students have worked hard to prepare and compete and we are duly proud of their accomplishments,” said East teacher Mary Boomer.

No comments: