Bradford area, Port Allegany high schools win Pitt-Bradford math competition
Students from Bradford Area and Port Allegany High Schools took top honors at the 9th Annual College Mathematics Competition held Thursday at Pitt-Bradford.
The competition is organized each year by the mathematics departments of Pitt-Bradford and the Jamestown (N.Y.) Community College Cattaraugus Campus.
Forty-nine students coming from five different high schools competed by taking a two-hour math examination. According to their size, the schools were divided into two different divisions.
Patrick Hoover of Youngsville High School was the overall individual winner, earning a $1,500 scholarship to Pitt-Bradford. Hoover was also the first-place winner in the small-school division.
Elliot Binder of Port Allegany came in second in the small-school division.
Dan Tingley of BAHS took first place in the large-school division and also earned a $1,500 scholarship to Pitt-Bradford. Coming in second in the large-school division was Andrew Kloss of BAHS.
Scholastic winners for the large-school division were BAHS, first, and Warren Area High School, second.
In the small-school division, Port Allegany finished first, while Youngsville took second.
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