Dr. John Hobbs, head coach of the math/science team at Garland High School is proud of his students’ performance at the Texas Tech summer camp in Lubbock July 14-18.
“We have dominated this contest for three years in a row,” Hobbs said. “This was our best showing.”
The team’s accomplishments were:
· 1st place in Number Sense, 913 to 754
· 1st place in Calculator, 677 to 574
· 1st place in Mathematics, 606 to 540
· 1st place in Science, 448 to 348
· 1st place in Sweepstakes, 2644 to 2042
Individual students placed as follows:
· Alyssa Shrode (senior) placed 1st in Number Sense, 2nd in Calculator, 3rd in Math and 2nd in Science.
· Linh Nguyen (junior) placed 2nd in Number Sense, 1st in Calculator, 1st in Math and 1st in Science.
· Andrew Doan (junior) placed 3rd in Number Sense, 8th in Calculator, 2nd in Math and 10th in Science.
· Luz Martines (junior) placed 9th in Calculator.
· Tien Tran (sophomore) placed 5th in Number Sense, 1st in Math and 7th in Science.
· Rebecca Lamb (sophomore) placed 10th in Science.
· Alina Tieu (sophomore) placed 10th in Calculator.
· Khoa Pham (freshman) placed 3rd in Number Sense, 2nd in Calculator, 2nd in Math and 4th in Science.
· Zacahry Nguyen (8th competing as a 9th-grader) placed 2nd in Number Sense, 3rd in Math and 5th in Science.
· Joshua Robert (7th-grader competing as a 9th-grader) placed 5th in Number Sense, 6th in Calculator, 4th in Math and 7th in Science.
Hobbs coached the GHS math team to the district championship level in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2010 and 2015, the team placed second in the UIL Region Competition. In 2014 and 2015, they placed 7th in the TMSCA State competition and in 2015 they placed 5th in the UIL State Competition