Kellogg students compete in Mathcounts competition

 L-R: Owen Townson, Atlas Clyde, David Xiao, Matteo Mortensen, Oliver Weiss, Ansen Filipi, Oliver Peoples, Katelyn Shi (and Hailey Kee - not pictured)

December through March is Math competition season for Middle schools across America

On Saturday, February 1, 2025 the Kellogg Middle School students joined another 14 schools from the Shoreline and Seattle area, competing in the Seattle Chapter of the national 41st Mathcounts competition.

The official Kellogg team placed 4th, advancing to State, and coming ahead of some Seattle public schools with a much deeper tradition in the competition, as well as ahead of private schools like Evergreen (Shoreline), Saint Katherine (Seattle) etc. 

Leading to this weekend’s event, in December, the Math Club organized the Mathcounts school competition. All 18 Math Club students participated in the activity. 

Matteo Mortensen, David Xiao, Ansen Filipi, and Oliver Peoples were in the school competition and qualified to officially represent Kellogg. 

Also competing for Kellogg were Atlas Clyde, Katelyn Shi, Owen Townson, Hailey Kee, and Oliver Weiss. 

The Mathcounts Kellogg students have participated in three friendly Mathcounts simulations, organized during January weekends, from the collaboration of Math Clubs of Robert Eagle Staff MS, Hamilton MS, Einstein MS, Eckstein MS, Jane Addams MS, and Kellogg MS.

Other regional events include the SIMC, an AMC-8 practice event taking place at Art of Problem Solving in Redmond, where Matteo’s score was the third highest among the Seattle and Bellevue area participants and the I2MC competition, where David finished 2nd among top 7th graders from WA state.

Thank you all for enabling the students to share their love and excitement for Math with each other, and students in the broader area.

It's been very fun participating in their journey, watching them smile, learn and compete together. 

--Kellogg Math club coaches - Senja Filipi, John Clyde