WLES Students Place in Nationwide Math Contest

The “Fecat Fanatics” are pictured with their teacher. Front row from left: Luke Wilson, Hailey Jasenec, Lincoln Hull, Keira Stricklin, Gracie Killingsworth, Zachary Gump and Brock Ewing. Back row from left: WLES 2nd grade teacher Ashley Fecat, Jocelyn Stewart, Laylah Lightner, Macayla Adams, Cael Howard, Kolton Piatt, Rayden Huggins, Hayden Coffield, Zoey Weese and Zaira Jones.
The “Fecat Fanatics” are pictured with their teacher. Front row from left: Luke Wilson, Hailey Jasenec, Lincoln Hull, Keira Stricklin, Gracie Killingsworth, Zachary Gump and Brock Ewing. Back row from left: WLES 2nd grade teacher Ashley Fecat, Jocelyn Stewart, Laylah Lightner, Macayla Adams, Cael Howard, Kolton Piatt, Rayden Huggins, Hayden Coffield, Zoey Weese and Zaira Jones.

Ashley Fecat entered her Washington Lands Elementary second grade class in an online math competition titled Math Madness, like basketball’s March Madness, that ran for the entire month of March.

The “Fecat Fanatics” competed against 738 other second grade classrooms and placed 7th in the nation. Team members include, alphabetically, Macayla Adams, Hayden Coffield, Brock Ewing, Zachary Gump, Cael Howard, Rayden Huggins, Lincoln Hull, Hailey Jasenec, Zaira Jones, Gracie Killingsworth, Laylah Lightner, Carmen McCardle, Kolton Piatt, Jocelyn Stewart, Keira Stricklin, Zoey Weese and Luke Wilson.

Fecat treated her student “mathletes” to an ice cream party for their accomplishment.