- December 20, 2024
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Flagler Schools sent 178 students to the Future Problem Solving state competition at the Wyndham Resort in Orlando on March 10-13, and 40 have been invited to compete at the International Conference on June 5-9 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
The students represented Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas high schools, Buddy Taylor and Indian Trails middle schools and Rymfire Elementary School.
Here’s a look at each of the schools and their award winners in Orlando:
FLAGLER PALM COAST:
FPC coaches Melissa Castaneda, Danielle Moss, Anabella Giuliano and Zach Lavigne took 52 students to the state competition and scored several wins.
Ava Mello, Arianna Slaughter, Victoria DaSilva-Carvalheira and Liam Lafferty won first place in Global Issues Team Writing Senior Division and will advance to the international competition.
Samantha Newell placed third in Global Issues Problem Solving individually and Desmond Akmentins placed fifth place. Lafferty also placed third in Scenario Writing.
Annabelle Machado, Abigail Blumengarten, Lily Ames, and Jack Mikutel placed first in the Presentation of Action Plan Senior Division. Kyra Baldwin, Ella Oshri and Jack Gilvary placed third; Eva Sites, Hannah Zublionis, Laura Herrera and Grace Brocksmith placed fourth; Summer Barnes, Veronica Matsikh, Emma Coates and Nigel-Ginola Njok placed fifth.
Kashvi Sagar placed second in Multi-Affiliate Global Issues Competition (MAGIC) Team Writing Senior Division. Aria King and Skylar Carroll placed second in the Middle Division. MACIC competitors are assigned to a team with students from different regions.
MATANZAS:
Flagler Schools Instructional Technology Specialist Amy Kopach coached the 15-member Matanzas High School team.
Lily Lisowski, Olivia Chochev, Eva Luis, Megan Rhee, Brianna O’Malley and April Goebel took first place in Community Problem Solving with the Spill the TEA project. Project WON came in second with team members Tony Pacilli, Carter Ives, Landen Cangialosi, Dmytro Sanchenko, Cline Hansen and Will Wells. Both teams have been invited to compete at the International Conference.
In the CmPS individual Individual Project category, Ava Anderson took second place with her The Real Superheroes project.
Ava Muldoon took first place in Scenario Writing Senior Division for The Edge of It All project. She was invited to compete in the International competition.
Olivia Chochev won first place with team members from other regions in MAGIC Team Writing Senior Division.
INDIAN TRAILS:
Indian Trails Middle School had the largest local contingent at the event with 77 students. Beth Blumengarten, Neil Kopach and Hannah Anderson coached the students.
The team of Wesley Kopach, Kendall Willis, Paris Milton, Dempsey Manhart, Liam O’Connor, Jorge Guerrero, Gavin Albertson and Arlo Bottinelli placed first in Community Problem Education with an invitation to the International competition for Project BOSS — Bring On Student Start Ups.
Alena Karanas, Americo Amaral, Cedrick Barrameda, Holden Carleton, Giles Platt, Jacob Gibson, Oliver Esquivel Novek, Ryan Jaeger, Sydney Mahon, Xavier Cejudo and Adriana Berti took second place in Community Problem Solvers Education FPS².
Tyson Landon placed first and earned an invite to the International competition in the CmPS Middle Division Individual category with his Arrive Alive project.
In Civic & Culture, Maddy Aguilar, Eliana Mendez, and Emily Rhee placed third with Project Clean Sweep.
In Global Issues, Anabella Glasco, Brenden Scarbough Sanders, Emily Rhee and Will Skutens placed first in the team Junior Division. Giles Platt placed fourth in the individual Middle Division.
In MAGIC Team Writing Junior Division, Lucien Guadagno took first place and Anthony DeMaio placed fifth. In the Middle Division, Heidi Apfelbach and Ella Forbes took first place, Dempsey Manhart and Siena Bailey took second place, Harshvardhan Lochab and Jordan Wilson took third place, Emma Ball and Xavier Camacho took fourth place, Allie Brown and Imani Halyard took fifth place and Mary Grace Seward, Kate Collins took sixth place.
In the Presentation of Action Plan Middle Division, Sydney Mahon, Holden Carleton, Jacob Gibson, Ryan Jaeger, Americo Amaral and Mary Grace Seward placed sixth. In Scenario Writing Middle Division, Ryan Jaeger took sixth.
BUDDY TAYLOR MIDDLE:
Buddy Taylor Middle School coaches Erica Scudder and Brandy Tew-Womack took 16 students to the state competition.
RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY:
Coaches Caryn Taylor, Judy White, Amber Acosta and Colleen Welsh took 18 students to the event. Nine have been invited to the International competition.
Kenan Davis, Elissa Griffin, German Kabaloev, Evelyn Sheifer and Elisei Volkovskiy placed first with an invitation to the International competition in Community Problem Solving with their project Vocab Lab.
Jaycob Griffin, Alijah Pressley, Gia Rego and Ryan Shugart place second in Community Problem Solving and were invited to compete in Indiana with their project WINS — Welcoming New Students.
In MAGIC Team Writing Junior Division, Kenan Davis placed first, Clyde Moore placed second and German Kabaloev placed fifth.