Scofield Magnet Middle School grade-8 student Diane Yang has achieved impressive results in recent competitive mathematics events.

On Saturday, March 8, Diane won seventh place at the Connecticut State MATHCOUNTS Competition at University of Hartford, based on three written contests administered before lunch, and she won fourth place in the Countdown Round, which was performed game-show style by the 12 top-scoring students, before an audience of amazed and jealous observers. This competition included 172 students in grades 6-8 who qualified to participate by scoring among the top quartile at chapter-level contests.

On Saturday, February 2, 2008, Diane Yang won third place among 132 participants at the Southwest Connecticut Chapter MATHCOUNTS Competition at Fairfield University and captured first place in the Countdown Round.

Diane previously also scored top-quartile results and advanced to state level MATHCOUNTS competition as a Scofield Magnet seventh-grader in 2007, and for two consecutive years she won the title, "Stamford Top Middle School Mathlete" at the annual district-wide Stamford Middle School Math Competition.

MATHCOUNTS is the nation's premier math enrichment, coaching and competition program for middle school students. Competition events have been organized since 1984 by the Connecticut Society of Professional Engineers. For more information contact state coordinator and CSPE executive director Paul Brady at pbrady@ctspe.net or 860 635-5522 or visit www.mathcounts.org.

'Way to go, Diane!
Congratulations also to your coach, Mrs. Landon-Tirado!