Following the Integration Bee, the Greenhill Math Club hosted its first Geometry Bee for the Upper School on April 24.  

The Math Club recently held the Integration Bee, which received a lot of participation, and they decided to follow it up with a Geometry Bee. The Geometry Bee took place from April 24 to April 26 and had 17 competitors.  

To keep the competition fair for those of a lower math level, people who are currently in or have already taken the Advanced Placement Calculus BC course were not allowed to compete in the Geometry Bee. 

“We came up with the Geometry Bee because we wanted to give the people who didn’t have a high level of math skills a chance to also be able to participate in a competition similar to the Integration Bee,” sophomore Rachel Jiang said. 

For the Geometry Bee, competitors had to have knowledge of multiple topics surrounding geometry such as equations of lines in coordinate grids, triangle similarity, angles and areas of regular polygons, angle area and segment length of circles, volume of simple three-dimensional shapes, side lengths of right triangles and angles of transversals through parallel lines. 

The Geometry Bee consisted of a random single-elimination draw. Students competed against one another in a best-of-three question battle to advance to the next round. As the rounds progressed, the difficulty of the questions progressed as well.  

Freshman Collin Sun got first place, junior Jack Stone got second place, freshman Niam Ghelani got third place and freshman Tej Sachdeva got fourth place. 

First place in the competition won a $50 VISA gift card, second place won a $30 VISA gift card, and third place took home a $10 VISA gift card.  

“It was nice to see that my skills are greater or at least similar to someone of a higher math level,” freshman Tej Sachdeva said.