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Math Team Captures New England’s ‘Absolute Peak’
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HE UPPER SCHOOL math team — comprised of Ajay Bagaria ’24, Thomas Ewald ’24, William Ewald ’23, Vikram Sarkar ’26, Andrew Tu ’24, and Jack Whitney-Epstein ’26 — capped its season at Shrewsbury High School in Massachusetts at the New England math team competition, emerging victorious in the small-school division to earn top honors in the region for the first time in school history. Twenty-six schools participated, having qualified through highly distinguished performances in their state meets or local math leagues. Brunswick, in fact, also finished in first place among small schools at Connecticut’s State Association of Math Leagues annual match, as the Bruins outscored 44 public and private schools. And, as large school participants consisted of eight students, a comparison was done among all schools on a per-student basis, which determined Brunswick to be first among all schools in the state. Sarkar and WhitneyEpstein earned perfect scores in a very challenging match. Brunswick’s team drew the admiration of their coach, Michael Allwood. “To date, this is the absolute peak of achievement for Brunswick’s Upper School math team, and the six students who represented the school, along
with the entire group of 20 students who are involved in the program, are absolutely delighted,” Allwood said.
Community Service: FullForce Return
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OMMUNITY SERVICE Day returned in full force — for the first time since before the pandemic, over 400 boys fanned out to locations around the region “in person” to lend some muscle to spring cleanup, food pantry projects, and even a Bedford Historical Society graveyard. In Greenwich, it was a big year for planting trees. Greenwich Town Park, Helen Binney Kitchel Natural Park, and Pomerance Park are all home to new saplings thanks to the boys, while the ground at Greenwich Community Gardens at Armstrong Court stands well prepared for spring seedlings of all sorts thanks to the labor of about 60 students who tackled the seasonal cleanup there. Boys brought a different
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COMMUNITY SERVICE Upper Schoolers fanned out all across the area to support local organizations on Community Service Day.
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