around de la salle De La Salle ranks among nation’s top STEM schools De La Salle Collegiate has been named one of the nation’s best schools for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, according to Newsweek magazine. “What an incredible honor,” De La Salle Principal Nathan Maus said. “The credit goes 100 percent to our students who work very hard in their studies and who strive to do their best. The credit for this achievement also goes to our teachers who are determined to help students develop their love of learning, challenge them to achieve more and support them along the way and to our students who work hard and strive to do their best every day.” De La Salle was among the top 13 percent of the nation’s public and private high schools – and ranked second in Macomb County – to be honored as a 2020 Best STEM school.
Newsweek partners with STEM.org to rank the nation’s top STEM schools. The schools were ranked based on data collected from 2015-19. The research determined which schools provided the best STEM experience for students while positioning them for post-secondary study. “Second overall in the county, that’s an amazing achievement by our students,” Maus added. “It shows their devotion to their studies and extremely hard work, and that our teachers are really pushing hard for the students to achieve their best.” The top-ranked school in the country was the School of Science and Engineering in Dallas, Texas. The top Michigan school was Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills (No. 9 overall). The top Michigan public school ranking was Frankenmuth High School (No. 114).
Five write exam for potential scholarship Five De La Salle Collegiate students competed in the second part of the Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition in December. Their scores in the first portion - a 40-question, multiple-choice exam - taken earlier this fall, ranked among the top 1,000 students in Michigan. The second part was a five-proof exam; both exams were given at De La Salle. The students included senior Derrelle Murray, juniors Michael Wisnieswki and Suheum Hao, sophomore Minseok Bae, and senior Tristan Lago, who competed in Part 2 in 2018. De La Salle’s Math Department chair Joe Novak said 50 students took the first part of the competition, which is voluntary and open to all students. The top 100 students in the second part of the MMPC
are invited to an awards banquet, and the top 50 receive a scholarship ranging from $250 to $2500. De La Salle has had students place in the top 100. Novak says the challenge of the test is good for students. “Students may see math they haven’t seen before,” he said, “and sometimes they don’t know their full potential until pushed.” Novak also notes that Bae, who also took the first part last year, did so well that the Math Department moved him to the Advanced Placement Calculus AB class; Bae did well on the May 2019 exam, and this year, is enrolled in AP Calculus BC. For more information on the MMPC, check this link https://www.nmu.edu/mathandcomputerscience/ mi-mathematics-prize-competition
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