Robotics Success. The Robotics team “42 Watts” with students Rishabh Rao from Odle Middle School and Namita Rao from Cherry Crest Elementary won the First Lego League Western Washington State Championship earlier this year and represented Washington state at the FLL Razorback World Championship. There were 80 teams from around the world competing at the event and 42 Watts won the Robot performance and Robot design awards. Please join me in congratulating them.

2023 Cherry Crest Math Club Achievements

Congratulations to Knights of Pi Math Tournament 2023 Winners!  Three Cherry Crest Math Club teams participated in Washington State Knights of Pi Math tournament on April 22nd in Bellevue, WA, and did extremely well in one of the toughest competitions in the 5th -6th grade division.

Team Cherry Crest Archimedes (Aarush Neerudu, 5th grade; Aditya Sharma, 5th grade; Advik Jain, 5th grade; and Sahith Cherupally, 5th grade) placed 4th overall in the 5th -6th grade division.

Congratulations Mustang Math 2023 Winners! Four Cherry Crest Math Club teams participated in WA State Mustang Math tournament on April 29th in Kent, WA and all did extremely well in the competition.

  • Team Calculating Chargers (Amitesh Karthik, 5th grade; Aryan Jain, 5th grade; Saketh Bodapotula, 5th grade; and Shaurya Jain; 5th grade) placed 2nd overall in the Foal Division(6th grade and below) and won the silver medal.
  • Team Cherry Crest Archimedes (Aarush Neerudu, 5th grade; Aditya Sharma, 5th grade; Advik Jain, 5th grade; and Sahith Cherupally, 5th grade) placed 4th overall in the Foal Division(6th grade and below) and won the bronze medal.    

Congratulations to Math is Cool Masters 2023 Winners! Two Cherry Crest Math Club teams participated in WA State Math is Cool Masters tournament on May 3rd, in Moses lake, WA, and did especially well in the 4th grade division.

  • Cherry Crest Team  (Advik Krishnan, 4th grade; Alan Chang, 4th grade; Karen Zhou, 4th grade; and Nathan Chen, 4th grade) placed 4th overall in the 4th grade division.

Congratulations to AMC8 2023 Winners! 38 Cherry Crest Math Club students participated in AMC8 tournament on May 3rd conducted across the country and did extremely well.

  • Karen Zhou(4th grade), Alan Cheng(4th grade) did extremely well and placed in the Top 5% Nationally.
  • School level 3rd toppers are Jennika Kacheria(4th grade), Dev Bhuta(5th grade), Pranav Dowluru(5th grade), Aditya Sharma(5th grade).

Congratulations to MOEMS, Math Olympiad 2023 Winners! 45 Cherry Crest Math Club students participated in the MOEMS tournament conducted across the country and did extremely well.

  • Sahith Cherupally, 5th grade; Aarush Neerudu; 5th grade and Aditya Sharma, 5th grade placed in the top 3 scores.
  • 4th grade toppers are Leyu Lin, Advik Krishnan and Karen Zhou. 3rd Grade toppers are Yuching Lin, Akshaya Ramprasad and Eric Chai.

Congratulations to Math is Cool 2023 Winners! 11 Cherry Crest Math Club teams and 44 students participated in Math is Cool 2023 tournament conducted in March in Western Washington and did extremely well.

  • Sahith Cherupally, 5th grade; Aditya Sharma, 5th grade; and Aaron Zhong, 5th grade places placed in the top 15 individual scores from Cherry Crest in the 5th grade Division I, from Washington state.
  • Alan Cheng, 4th grade; and Nathan Chen, 4th grade, and Jennika Kacheria, 4th grade;  placed in the top 15 scores from Cherry Crest in the 4th grade Division I, from Washington state.
  • School teams for 5th grade won the 5th place and 4th grade on the 4th place in the overall school team score division and one team qualified for the Math is cool Masters

Fantastic job kids, and kudos to organizers for enabling to participate in innovative and fun Math events!

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