{"id":59005,"date":"2014-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/students-test-their-knowledge-in-uris-8th-annual-calc-bowl\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"students-test-their-knowledge-in-uris-8th-annual-calc-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/students-test-their-knowledge-in-uris-8th-annual-calc-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Students test their knowledge in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 8th annual Calc-Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 9, 2014 \u2013 Members of team, \u201cPushing the Limit,\u201d of the Naval Academy Preparatory School won the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 8th annual Calc-Bowl held last month on the Kingston campus. Students Daniel Stitt, Sicily Rios, Jessica Robinson, Omar Bailey, and Kindra Dawson were members of the winning team.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Calc-Bowl is a lively playoff competition between teams of high school or undergraduate college students with a passion for mathematics. The competition consists of pre-calculus and calculus questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Prout School team, \u201cPush it to the Limit,\u201d with Dave Lavallee, Andrea Vuono, Marc Laflamme, Celine DeSantis, and Rachel Amore took second place.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Coventry High School team, \u201cOur Limit Does Not Exist,\u201d took third place with members Jess Bellows, Allie Bellows, Courtney Grant, Katie Cronin, and Kayla Dwyer.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAnother Prout School team, \u201cWeapons of Math Destruction,\u201d with Drew Mace, Jess Elliott, Miguel Gonzalez, Ryan Pinch, and Jerry Cui took fourth place in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 Mathematics Professor Li Wu says this year\u2019s competition was filled with a lot of laughs, cheers, and hard work. \u201cThe game was very tense. The teams were very close and we even had to use tie breakers six times,\u201d said Wu.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWu organizes the competition annually with her colleagues Professors Tom Bella, Lubos Thoma, and James Baglama. Sponsors were Belmont Fruit Market, Pi Mu Epsilon, SIAM, 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Math Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe top teams won gift certificates to the University bookstore as prizes.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThis release was written by Sabrina Galiney, a 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing and Communications intern and public relations major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 9, 2014 \u2013 Members of team, \u201cPushing the Limit,\u201d of the Naval Academy Preparatory School won the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 8th annual Calc-Bowl held last month on the Kingston campus. Students Daniel Stitt, Sicily Rios, Jessica Robinson, Omar Bailey, and Kindra Dawson were members of the winning team. &#13; 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}