Garden City, a team of elementary school students from Newton placed third in the Winchester Math Competition (WinMaC) on May 14. WinMaC is an annual math competition organized by high-school students for students in Grades 4-5. This year about 80 elementary students participated, competing for individual and team awards. Students Billy Wu, Avi Pathak, Joshua Tang, and Alexandra Baskakova represented Newton as team Garden City.

There were two fast-paced individual rounds, Dash and Theme, in which students worked on problems independently, and two collaborative rounds, Team and Guts, in which students on each team solved problems together.

All members of Newton’s Garden City team placed high individually, with the top scorer on the team finishing in fifth place, and the team also demonstrated good teamwork during the Team and the Guts rounds.