HOBAN MATH TEAMS PLACE AT STARK STATE COMPETITION

Jeni Kostko, math department chair and teacher and math club students participated in a local math competition held at Stark State College in Canton. Hoban entered three teams of three students, and all placed among the 20 participating school teams.

"We had a lot of fun and learned all kinds of things, Jeni Kostko said. "This was our first experience competing as a team."

Seniors Joseph Markowski and Mukun (Harvey) Zhou and junior Charlie Hite placed second. Seniors Colin Doss and Francis Rinaldi and junior Carolyn Rinaldi placed third. Juniors Jimmy Bordenkircher and Robert Kostko and sophomore Alex Lin placed fifth.

Additionally, six students placed individually out of 70 student participants. Doss (1st place), Markowski (3rd place), Zhou (4th place), Robert Kostko (7th place), Francis Rinaldi (9th place) and Lin (10th place).