As math team members gather one by one in front of Roosevelt High School, anxiety and excitement were evident on each of their faces. It was the day that all of their hard work was going to be put to the test. Will their weeks of practices and tests finally pay off?

Math team is an organization consisting of hard-working students who spend their free time solving higher-level math problems. Workshops are held a few times a week along with three practice tests before each meet. The most determined students who attend the majority of the workshops earn the opportunity to compete at the math meet.

Like always, there were ten varsity and ten JV students participating, but during this particular meet, several JVs had to move up because many upperclassmen signed up to take the ACT on the same day. This put much pressure on both the remaining JV and the new varsity members because they were not used to facing such responsibility.

Nevertheless, they persevered and through much trial and error, managed to place fourth for JV and third for varsity.