Mathletes Excel

The middle school math team had a record-breaking season this year In the Chapter Math Counts meet towards the beginning of the year, Hammond placed fourth, with sixth grader Yukai Hu placing as the fourth individually At the state Math Counts meet, Hammond placed fourth Seventh grader Vibhav Vattipally was invited to attend as an individual while the team qualifiers included eighth graders Parsa Adam, Brayden LaSovage, and Alex Magargle and sixth grader Yukai Hu Parsa took fourth individually and qualified to go to nationals, the second person from Hammond to do so At nationals, Parsa placed 15th. Later in the year, Hammond took first at the SCISA math meet, with individuals taking 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th.

In the Math Kangaroo competition, which is offered to students from first to twelfth grades and scored by grade, Hu and Lyle Eagle tied for second in the state for 6th grade. Brayden, Alex, and Parsa placed 3rd, 2nd, and 1st respectively for 8th grade, with Parsa placing 15th in the nation Hammond freshmen took the top three with Miruna Sauvu in 1st, Wyatt Kosciusko in 2nd, and Nancy Phan in 3rd Sophomores Zamam Lone and Cole Glenn took 3rd and 1st, respectively, with Glenn winning 8th in the nation. Ranti Olatosi placed 3rd in the nation for juniors and Laurence Zhang took 1st for seniors

The upper school math team had a great season as well At the University of South Carolina's competition, Hammond placed in the top 16 as a team, winning the small school division. At the Clemson Calculus Challenge, Hammond won level one math and overall, with Nancy winning level one individually and TJ Nguyen placing 3rd Finally, at the College of Charleston's competition, Hammond won the physics brainstorming, level one, level two, and level three parts of the competition.