Goose Creek’s annual Elementary UIL Academic Tournament held Jan. 22 and Jan. 23 at Sterling High School with 641second through fifth grade students competing in 21 events.  Students from all elementary schools with second through fifth graders competed, with each campus represented among the winning teams or individual events.

Individual medals were awarded in creative writing, dictionary skills, listening skills, number sense, oral reading, ready writing, spelling, storytelling, and maps, graphs and charts.  Team medals were awarded for art memory and music memory.

Schools also received trophies for first through third place in each event. Certificates for perfect individual scores were awarded to 21 students.

The event was a districtwide competition coordinated by the Goose Creek Advanced Academics department with individual campus coordinators and event coaches as well as event directors, judges, graders, timekeepers and monitors. Dr. Toby York, superintendent of schools, and executive directors, Diana Cox and Suzanne Heinrich, personally congratulated winning students and teams at the awards ceremony.
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Forty Goose Creek CISD “mathletes” spent months practicing and calculating hundreds of equations before getting the chance to compete in the district’s inaugural MathCounts event on Jan 30.

The junior-school competition — in which students test their skills in a fast-paced “bee”-style competition — aims to spark an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Started by the National Society of Professional Engineers and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the MathCounts program is not about tedious math work and basic calculations.

Instead, it celebrates the problem-solving, creative and applied side of math, where equations and formulas can offer solutions for everyday life. Read more...