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by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Sydney Jo Pe\u00f1a of Liberty Memorial Middle School took top honors in the District’s American Mathematics Competition for students in grades 6-8.<\/p>\n Awards were presented Wednesday in the Liberty Memorial Middle School Gymnasium. The contest was open to students in grades 6-8 who received recommendations to compete from their teachers, counselors and\/or administrators.<\/p>\n AMC is the longest-running and most prestigious math contest in the United States. AMC-8 provides students with opportunities that foster the development of positive attitudes towards mathematics and positive perceptions of themselves as learners of mathematics.<\/p>\n Certificates were presented to all students from the district’s three middle schools who took part in the competition.<\/p>\n The award was the second for Pe\u00f1a in five days. She finished in first place in the Los Fresnos CISD Spelling Bee held Jan. 26.<\/p>\n After Pe\u00f1a, other students who received trophies included:<\/p>\n Second Place (tie) Kailey Lei, Resaca Middle School and Hunter S. Thompson, Los Cuates Middle School Ninety students from the three middle schools competed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD Sydney Jo Pe\u00f1a of Liberty Memorial Middle School took top honors in the District’s American Mathematics Competition for students in grades 6-8. Awards were presented Wednesday in the Liberty Memorial Middle School Gymnasium. The contest was open to students in grades 6-8 who received recommendations to compete from their teachers, counselors and\/or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9815,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions\/9815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThird Place (tie) Francisco Quintero, Zeke Mark Rios, Eros S. Cruz and Alexia M. Arredondo, all from Los Cuates; Mariah Perez, Liberty Memorial and Ethan Iracheta, Resaca<\/p>\n