Economics Students First in State

The Owl EconChallenge team of Witt Hawkins, Grayson Lee, and Zack Spisak took first place in the state economics competition March 21 at Tennessee State University in Nashville. They competed against 28 teams in the preliminary, online round of the David Ricardo division, for students who have taken one semester of introductory or general, combined macroeconomics […]

MUS State Mathcounts Champion

Hard work and long hours of practice paid off for the Owl Mathcounts team, which captured the 2014 Tennessee championship. In addition Chang Yu was the state’s top-scoring student. Eighth-grade team members Jackson Moody, Akaash Padmanabha, Rick Reinhard, and Yu traveled with Coach Loyal Murphy ’86, instructor in math, to the Tennessee Engineering Center in […]

Owls Score at Pro2Serve Math Contest

The Owls scored high in the Pro2Serve Math Contest at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, November 14. Junior Yunhua Zhao was a Top-10 scorer, earning him a $16,000 scholarship to UTK should he decide to attend the school. In a field of 64 teams from large and small schools for the double-elimination Math Bowl, the team […]

Owls Score in Fall Startup Math

Two math scholars along with the Owl high school team ranked nationally in the Fall Startup Event math competition, a 100-problem, 30-minute exam taken by students from 119 schools across the country in September. Of the more than 1,200 scores reported, Chang Yu was the nation’s fifth-highest eighth grader, Richard Ouyang was the nation’s seventh-highest […]