Doane Math Contest

Doane College in Crete, Nebraska has a math contest every fall for high school students.

    Norris had to compete with all the big schools this year at the Doane College Math Contest, thus they came in 8th out of eight teams. Other teams in our division were Lincoln East, Lincoln Pius, Lincoln Northeast, Lincoln Southeast, Omaha Central, Bellevue East, and Bellevue West. The team scores were kept (but not shared with the sponsors). How close were we to 7th place? Only the Doane faculty members know! The overall winner was Lincoln East, the dominant math high school in the state of Nebraska.
   Competing for Norris were seniors Emily Derks and Curtis Richards, juniors Craig Price, Cody Bodfield, Caleb Boender, sophomores Anneliese Madison, James Verhoeff, and eighth grader Austin Walker.
    Our top scorer on the individual, multiple-choice test was Craig Price (22nd place out of 54), followed by Emily Derks (25th) and Curtis Richards (38th). Two teams also competed in the Extreme Team Challenge: Emily, Curtis, and Craig; Caleb, Cody, and James.
    In the quiz bowl competition, Norris had to face Lincoln East, and thus we were eliminated in the first round. The sponsor for the day was Nancy Price.

The Norris team captured second place! This year Omaha's Brownell-Talbot (class C private school in Omaha) competed and dethroned the Titans! Thayer Central was third. Norris students: (seniors) Shane Lowe, Andrew Keralis, Alex Baruth, Brian Hage, Joe Bizal, Pierre VanParijs, Gabe Williamson, and (sophomore) Craig Price.

On the written exam, Andrew Keralis placed third (behind 2 Brownell-Talbot students, actually 3 as there was a tie for 1st place). The written test had 30 multiple choice questions. Final places (individually): Andrew (4th), Craig (9th), Alex (16th), Shane (17th), Joe (20th), Pierre (tied for 25th). There were 56 competitors.

On the Extreme Team Challenge, the team of Andrew Keralis, Shane Lowe, and Alex Baruth placed 3rd behind Thayer Central and Brownell-Talbot. Teams of students had to go around the Doane campus answering questions made up by the Doane math faculty.

At the Quiz Bowl tournament, Norris defeated Crete 4-2, then Falls City 6-2, then was defeated by Brownell-Talbot 7-5 in the championship. In that last game, every question (all 7) were answered correctly by one of the two teams. Norris was ahead 5 to 4 with one question to go, but the last question was worth 3 points. Andrew Keralis and Shane Lowe were in high gear and were very close to answering the last question. Final question: what is the square root of 4,356? (without a calculator, please).

There were 8 teams in our division: Brownell-Talbot, Crete, Deshler, Falls City, Harvard, Thayer Central, Waverly, and Norris.

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The Math team of seniors Erik Nelsen, Eric Price, Spencer Hall, juniors Andrew Keralis, Alex Baruth, Shane Lowe, Brian Hage, and Joe Bizal swept the events.

Quiz Bowl Champions: Erik Nelsen, Shane Lowe, Andrew Keralis. Defeated Betrand 6-1, defeated Weeping Water 6-1, defeated Thayer Central 6-3

Individual test results (30 questions in 45 minutes): 1^st Erik Nelsen 2^nd (tied) Spencer Hall and another student 3^rd Eric Price

Extreme Team Challenge (written team solution to several challenging problems): 1^st Place Erik Nelsen, Eric Price, Andrew Keralis . Their solutions were the best of any team (even teams like Lincoln East, Omaha North, Lincoln Southwest, etc.).

There were 8 teams in our division: Bertrand, Crete, Deshler, Falls City, Norris, Palmyra, Thayer Central, Weeping Water
Overall Team Champion: Norris!

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Norris tied for the championship in the "small schools" division.
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In the individual test, Mark Onwiler placed first and Matthew Troupe was third. Other Norris participants were Tanner Moormeier 76 Erik Nelson 76 Ben Hage 74 Andrew Keralis 74 Aaron Steele 73 Eric Price 71 Joel Keralis 46.

In the Extreme Team Challenge, the team of Mark Onwiler, Matthew Troupe, and Aaron Steele placed first and the team of Joel Keralis, Tanner Moormeier, and Ben Hage placed second. Each team member had to go to a table (outside on the campus) and get a clue to a problem. They couldn't write anything down or bring back any clues, other than remembering them. Once all the clues were assembled, they had to solve the problem and then write up an answer.

In the quiz bowl section, we won our first match and lost our second one, placing us fourth. Deshler won the quiz bowl contest and tied us for the overall title.

Doane College, October 9th, 2003

The team of Evan Brunkow, Keriann Johnson, Anne Miller, Renee Scott (seniors), Tanner Moormeier, Mark Onwiler, Matthew Troupe, Aaron Steele (juniors), and Erik Nelson (sophomore) participated. The team placed 7th out of 9 schools in the "big school" division. We didn't have anyone pick up any medals for any parts of the contest.

Matthew Troupe was our top finisher at 13th in the written round, followed by Evan Brunkow at 15th, Tanner Moormeier 17th, and Mark Onwiler 20th. There were 67 students in this event. Aaron Steele placed in the top half as well since he placed 30th.

In quiz bowl action, Norris lost to Hastings 7-6 in overtime. All the questions were answered correctly by one of the teams. Hastings eventually placed 3rd in the quiz bowl section for Division 1 (big schools).

Norris placed in a tie for 4th Place at the 3rd annual Doane Math contest. There were about 11 schools at the contest. Spencer Hall, Erik Nelson, and Mark Onwiler won the JV Division Quiz Bowl contest, beating Lincoln SouthWest in the fnals.

Mark Egger, Tim Boender, and Josh Michels were second in the JV Division of the Extreme Team challenge. The teams had to figure out how many tubes (tori) would cover the football field and how many times the torus would travel to go from goal post to goal post.

1st Place! In the extreme team competition, Julie Brandt, Tim Baruth, and Keriann Johnson took first! They had to estimate the volume of a boat in the middle of Doane Lake and also how much things weighed in the boat. In the written portion of the contest, Julie Brandt tied for second and Luke Hansen placed third. In the Quiz Bowl competition, Norris A (Luke Hansen, Scott DeBoer, and A. J. Rand) took second behind Lincoln Northeast. In the JV Quiz Bowl competition, Keriann Johnson, Mark Onwiler, and Julie Brandt beat Lincoln Northeast for the championship. Other teams participating: Lincoln Northeast, Hastings, Crete, Fairbury, Friend, Thayer Central, and Weeping Water.

    Top Norris scorers:      Julie Brandt 103
                                        Luke Hansen 100
                                        Keriann Johnson 86