SHORELINE – About 430 fourth- through eighth-grade students from Shoreline and Lake Forest Park participated in the Shoreline Math Olympiad contest March 12, with hundreds returning home medal winners.
While this is the seventh annual event, which draws students from area public and privates schools, this was the first year there could be more than one winner at each grade, said Lisa McDonald, the event coordinator.
“If they all got identical scores, they all got first place,” McDonald said.
Individuals were given medals for, in some cases, first through 10th place. This could not have been done, McDonald said, without help from parent volunteers, in particular Todd Ramsey, a Meridian Park parent, who collected additional donations.
Shoreline Bank, Shoreline Public Schools Foundation and the Shoreline School District have continually supported the contest, but volunteers also obtained funds from the Shoreline Rotary, Breakfast Rotary, the Meridian Park PTA and the Evergreen School.
This extra assistance made it possible for the math olympiad planning committee to award many more medals than in previous years. McDonald said she hopes to continue to receive additional funding to make this possible in the coming years.
“You’re there to have fun,” McDonald said, so she hopes to reward as many students as possible.
Medals were given for individual and team efforts. Teams were made of four students from the schools. In addition this year, the planning committee added an award for school participation, which was given based on the numbers of students who attended. In future years, this award will be given to schools based on the percentage of the school’s student body that attended, McDonald said.
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