Congratulations

Congratulations to Joseph Pham in 8A for getting third place in state at the National Geographic Bee held in Baton Rouge on Friday!  We are so proud of you!

Congratulations to the Lake Castle Mathcounts team for finishing in the top ten in the state!

Congratulations to the winners of the Jr. Beta Honor Society essay contest focusing on leadership. You have great insight and writing skills.  Enjoy those Raising Cane’s gift cards!

Congratulations, Blue Angels and Ms. Stacie! Fifth place in jazz, third place in high kick, and second place in pom – we are so proud of you!

Congratulations, Mathcounts team, on qualifying for state! We’re proud of our math team and the coaches for working so hard and having a super successful year – first-place finishes in 5th grade math, 6th grade math, and Algebra I!

On Saturday, February 3, Lake Castle’s math team headed to Brother Martin High School to compete in the 2018 Brother Martin Mu Alpha Theta Math Tournament. The boys and girls had a great time and ended up with much success!

Jessica Nguyen (6A) won first place in the individual sixth-grade competition, and the sixth-grade team won first place.

In seventh-grade math, Jennifer Huynh (7A) received an honorable mention; Amy T. Nguyen (7A) came in fourth place; and Dayja Armant (7A) placed second in the individual competition. The seventh-grade general math team finished in second place.

In pre-algebra, Austin Ogbuefi (7A) received an honorable mention; Amy Le Nguyen (7A) finished in third place; Dhruv Patel (7A) finished in second place; and Kevin Nguyen (7A) won first place. The seventh-grade pre-algebra team won first place.

On a very impressive note, Jennifer Tran (8A) won first-place individual in the high school Algebra I Division II!

On the interschool test, in which the entire team competes against the other schools’ entire teams, Lake Castle won first place.

We are also proud to report that over ten members of the Benjamin Franklin High School team competing at the tournament are Lake Castle graduates. In addition, two members of the Jesuit High School team are Lake Castle graduates. Michael McGovern (Lake Castle Class of 2017) won first place for Jesuit in geometry.

Congratulations to all the current and former Lake Castle math team members, and thank you to coaches Mr. Danny McGovern and Mrs. Despina Fyssas, as well as all the students’ previous math teachers who contributed to their tremendous success!

The annual eighth-grade science fair was held on January 31, 2018.  The eighth graders set up their displays in the morning and then presented the exhibits to the judges.  After the judging was over, upper-elementary students viewed the exhibits and learned a lot from the presentations.

The originality of the projects this year impressed the judges, and the eighth graders were extremely knowledgeable about their topics.  In addition, the students’ project boards gave great illustrations and details about their research.

Thank you to the eighth-grade science teachers, Mrs. Fyssas and Mrs. Morris, for organizing the science fair!  Great job, eighth graders!

Results are as follows:

Result	8A	8B
First Place	Jennifer Tran	Reese Dejoie
	Ryan Tran
Second Place	Amelie Karas	John Tran
	Alicia Nguyen
	Madeleine Nguyen
	Christina Tran
Third Place	Anamaria Bao-Loc-Trung	Kacie Flattmann
	Jason Nguyen	Gabrielle Nguyen
	Daniel Tran
	Yimei Zhang

Congratulations to our math competition team on their impressive team wins at De La Salle High School on December 2, 2017!  Our teams finished in 1st place in 5th grade, 2nd place in 4th grade, 2nd place in 6th grade, and 4th place in 7th grade.  The teams finished in 1st place in 4th & 5th grade Sweepstakes and finished in 2nd place for 6th & 7th grades Sweepstakes.  The teams also finished in 2nd place for both the Logic Tests and Interschool competitions.  We are very proud of our math team!