Richland One teams place second and third in state MathCounts competition 

Teams representing Hand and Crayton middle schools placed second and third, respectively, in the state MathCounts competition held at Riverbanks Zoo recently. Fifteen teams participated in the competition.

Hand ‘s Math Team, Nick Adkins, Stan Adkins, Artem Aleshin, Noah Fram, Chris Garrick, Daniel Kellogg, Aaron Markham, Macon Morris, Elizabeth Myers, Alexx Niblock, Michael Utsey, and Alex Wilcox, competed in the Columbia Chapter MathCounts competition and placed first. Markham won second place in the individual competition, and Morris, Adkins, and Fram placed in the top 15 in the competition.

The team competed in the State MathCounts Competition at Riverbanks Zoo. Hand won second place overall, with Fram placing third in the individual competition. Fram will be a member of the South Carolina team going to Washington, D.C. to participate in the national competition on May 7.

Crayton's team of Theo DuBose, Anna Hegquist, Ella Soltz and Kaileen Yeh placed third at the state competition. DuBose placed sixth in the individual competition and first in the countdown round.