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Wolfson Campus Math Team Snags First Place Honors At State-Wide Math Olympics

Maria Eduarda Mottin

Four students from the Wolfson Campus math team won first-place at the Florida mathematics Olympics on April 6 at Santa Fe College.

The competition, which covered topics such as trigonometry, precalculus, calculus 1 and calculus 2, required mathletes to solve 10 math problems; they were given 10 minutes per question.

Apart from the team’s first-place win, two members—Gustavo Falcon and Elvis Cabrera—also won first and second place, respectively, in the individual component of the tournament. It required participants to solve 40 math problems in 90 minutes without a calculator and 10 problems in 45 minutes with a calculator. 

“Math makes sense, you know? So I appreciate it for that,” said Falcon, a 17-year-old student in the School for Advanced Studies at Wolfson Campus who aspires to pursue a career in computer science. 

The math team is overseen by mathematics professors Alvio Dominguez and Arturo Presa.

Maria Eduarda Mottin

Maria Eduarda Mottin, 20, is a mass communication/journalism major at Wolfson Campus. Mottin, who graduated from Cambridge Arts, Technology & Science Academy in Boston in 2022.  She will serve as a staff writer forThe Reporter during the 2024-2025 school year and aspires to work in the marketing or public relations field.

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