A team of students from Basis Tucson North is preparing to test its skills in the state MathCounts competition next month.
The team of Tom George, Michael Zhang, Joseph Wang, Emmanuel Zerefa, Aravind Ramaswami, Dakota Koukhamsay, William Allen, Michael Wang and Anunth Ramaswami took first place in the Southern Arizona chapter contest Feb. 6.
MathCounts is a national middle school program that promotes math achievement through a series โbeeโ style contests.