Back in February Wade participated in a HUGE math competition in Bakersfield called Math Counts. He'd attended a math club at his middle school nearly every Monday afternoon for months to prepare for it. I drove him and a friend, Ben, to the campus of CSUB, where he met up with other kids from his school and his math club sponsors and did some hard math for a few hours. His hard work paid off! Wade's team got 5th place out of 12, and he found out a few weeks after that about his individual achievement--he tied for 22nd place out of over 120 students. We were pretty excited about this!!!!
I was especially grateful because I'd not been excited about traveling to Bakersfield that day because of the crazy weather, covering a large area of the state. This was the map I woke up to very early that morning:
And the weather on the way home was some of the scariest I've driven through in my entire life. But it was WORTH it for Wade!!!
Proud of our mathlete! WAY TO GO, WADE!!!
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| Love that smile on his face!! |
