Many Highline district elementary students enjoy and excel at math, as demonstrated by the record attendance at the seventh annual Seahurst Elementary Math Bonanza, a district mathematics contest at Seahurst Elementary School on Friday, May 6, 2016.
Students in grades four through six competed in a variety of tests in different formats: an individual test in which students attempted to solve 30 problems in 30 minutes, a mental math test in which individuals tried to solve 20 questions in their head in 15 minutes, and two team tests (Algebra & Probability and Geometry & Potpourri) in which teams of four students attempted to solve 20 topic-specific problems in 15 minutes.
After a dinner break for pizza and hot dogs, the tests had all been scored and the results were ready. The first award category was “All That and a Bag of Chips”, where the top scorer on each team of four receives a bag of chips!
School Name | Student Name |
Bow Lake | Harkirat Sohi |
Bow Lake | Jose Bocanegra |
Bow Lake | Mundir Ali |
Bow Lake | Sulekha Mahamud |
Cedarhurst | Alex Armas |
Cedarhurst | Diego de la Vega Sororio |
Cedarhurst | Michael Luong |
Hilltop | Ana Marcela |
Hilltop | Joel |
Hilltop | Lilean |
Hilltop | Makenna |
Hilltop | Rico |
Hilltop | Zen |
Marvista | Josh Abellon |
Marvista | Madelyn Novick |
Marvista | Mandi Pham |
Marvista | Margaret Stewart |
Marvista | Tsiyon Solomon |
Midway | Brandon Philip Pelen |
Midway | Nancy Nguyen |
Midway | Siiddhika Kshetri |
North Hill | Ava Brown |
North Hill | Emily Ash |
North Hill | Kai Praven |
North Hill | Manjot Singh |
North Hill | Patrick Crosby |
North Hill | Reanna Lee |
Parkside | Aesha Aden |
Parkside | Allister J. Hewitt |
Parkside | Ben Bowers |
Parkside | Jeremy Skeels |
Parkside | Kenley Nguyen |
Parkside | Kyra Schwartz |
Parkside | Mason Crook |
Parkside | Megumi Whisman |
Parkside | Vegas Kelso Znak |
Parkside | Violet Wilson |
Rainier Prep | Aidan O’Neill |
Rainier Prep | Crystal Tran |
Rainier Prep | Josselyne Fregoso |
Seahurst | Catherine Lemus |
Seahurst | Emerson Hickman |
Seahurst | Esmeralda Castro Cordero |
Seahurst | Hiei Garret |
Seahurst | Hunter Richards |
Seahurst | Jennifer Bou |
Seahurst | Micah Hagler |
Seahurst | Ruqaya Algburi |
Seahurst | Summer Romero |
Shorewood | Emily Cain |
Shorewood | Emily Vorng |
Shorewood | Maddy Handeshew |
Shorewood | Mussie Dagmawi |
Shorewood | Wily Wennerlind |
Southern Heights | Benjamin Vu |
Southern Heights | Will Murdock |
White Center Heights | Annalise Chheng |
White Center Heights | Diana Bunham |
White Center Heights | Katie Tran |
The second award category is the “Sweet Solvers”, the top scorers from each school in each grade, who received a candy bar!
School Name | Student Name | Grade |
Bow Lake | Harkirat Sohi | 4 |
Bow Lake | Mundir Ali | 4 |
Bow Lake | Jose Bocanegra | 5 |
Cedarhurst | Michael Luong | 6 |
Hilltop | Joel | 5 |
Hilltop | Zen | 6 |
Marvista | Madelyn Novick | 4 |
Marvista | Mandi Pham | 5 |
Marvista | Margaret Stewart | 6 |
Midway | Siiddhika Kshetri | 5 |
Midway | Brandon Philip Pelen | 6 |
North Hill | Kai Praven | 4 |
North Hill | Reanna Lee | 5 |
North Hill | Patrick Crosby | 6 |
Parkside | Ben Bowers | 4 |
Parkside | Allister J. Hewitt | 5 |
Parkside | Kenley Nguyen | 5 |
Parkside | Jeremy Skeels | 6 |
Rainier Prep | Cassandra Nguyen | 5 |
Rainier Prep | Aidan O’Neill | 6 |
Seahurst | Jennifer Bou | 4 |
Seahurst | Micah Hagler | 5 |
Seahurst | Hunter Richards | 6 |
Shorewood | Maddy Handeshew | 4 |
Shorewood | Emily Cain | 5 |
Shorewood | Wily Wennerlind | 5 |
Shorewood | Emily Vorng | 6 |
Southern Heights | Will Murdock | 6 |
White Center Heights | Katie Tran | 4 |
White Center Heights | Annalise Chheng | 5 |
The third award category was the top-scoring individuals across the district in each grade, with the top five each receiving a trophy. The fourth-graders were:
Place | School Name | Student Name |
11 | Seahurst | Jennifer Bou |
10 | Parkside | Sunni Wagner |
9 | Parkside | Megumi Whisman |
8 | North Hill | Aria Hawkins |
7 | North Hill | Kai Praven |
6 | Parkside | Ben Bowers |
5 | Marvista | Josh Abellon |
4 | Shorewood | Rae Williams |
3 | Shorewood | Eric Nguyen |
2 | Marvista | Madelyn Novick |
1 | Shorewood | Maddy Handeshew |
The fifth-graders were:
Place | School Name | Student Name |
10 | Parkside | Aesha Aden |
9 | Parkside | Luke Vlases |
8 | Shorewood | Wily Wennerlind |
7 | Shorewood | Emily Cain |
6 | Marvista | Mandi Pham |
5 | Rainier Prep | Cassandra Nguyen |
4 | Hilltop | Joel |
3 | Parkside | Austin Corwin |
2 | Parkside | Allister J. Hewitt |
1 | Parkside | Kenley Nguyen |
…and the sixth-graders were:
Place | School Name | Student Name |
13 | Shorewood | Mussie Dagmawi |
12 | Parkside | Lucas Smith |
11 | Parkside | Kyra Schwartz |
10 | Hilltop | Zen |
9 | Parkside | Melvin Dillinger |
8 | Marvista | Margaret Stewart |
7 | Shorewood | Alex Akina |
6 | Cedarhurst | Renat Mamikonyan |
5 | Parkside | Violet Wilson |
4 | Cedarhurst | Michael Luong |
3 | Rainier Prep | Aidan O’Neill |
2 | Parkside | Jeremy Skeels |
1 | Shorewood | Emily Vorng |
The final award category was the top scoring teams across the district in each grade, who each received a plaque to display in their school’s trophy case. The fourth-grade teams were
Place | School Name | Name | Name | Name | Name |
5 | Parkside | Maziah Banuelos | Melat Kassahun | Sunni Wagner | Ben Bowers |
4 | Marvista | Aidan Phan | Martin Dinh | Josh Abellon | Cameron Simpson |
3 | North Hill | Philip Soran | Kai Praven | Parker Crawford | Aria Hawkins |
2 | Marvista | Madelyn Novick | Guilia Gudor | Anika Schau | Elliana Bryant |
1 | Shorewood | Eric Nguyen | Maddy Handeshew | Rae Williams | Sarah Berhan |
The fifth-grade teams were:
Place | School Name | Name | Name | Name | Name |
5 | Hilltop | Daniella | Joseph | Kellie | Joel |
4 | Parkside | Niyara Dokukina | Aesha Aden | Rym Kechouane | Alena Kang |
3 | Shorewood | Emily Cain | Katie Clymer | Liam Richards | Wily Wennerlind |
2 | Parkside | Jens | Ivan Baez | Luke Vlases | Allister J. Hewitt |
1 | Parkside | Evelyn Watson | Austin Corwin | Malakai Silvestre | Kenley Nguyen |
And the sixth-grade teams were:
Place | School Name | Name | Name | Name | Name |
5 | Cedarhurst | Sosna Binian | Renat Mamikonyan | Michael Luong | |
4 | Parkside | Lucas Smith | Kingston Thomas | Violet Wilson | Trisity Marshall-Tilson |
3 | Parkside | Jeremy Skeels | Melvin Dillinger | Ian Bishop | |
2 | Rainier Prep | Aidan O’Neill | Jenny Nguyen | Cassandra Nguyen | |
1 | Shorewood | Alex Akina | Emily Vorng | Sophia Mitchell | Tony Nguyen |
All of the tests for the 2016 Seahurst Elementary Math Bonanza were provided by National Assessment & Testing (http://www.natassessment.com), which in addition to this local competition administers four national contests by mail each year in different formats.