Middle School Girls Excel in GEM Tournament

Last weekend, six Tandem Middle School girls, with math teacher Elizabeth Larson as their faculty mentor, participated in Village School's 14th Annual Girls Excelling in Math (GEM) Tournament. Area schools can register teams of four girls to compete in either the lower division (grades 4 through 6) or upper division (grades 6 through 8) tournament, where participants will complete a team and an individual paper-pencil math event, and a team hands-on challenge. Tandem's upper division team (8th grader Eloise H and 7th grader Aislin W, plus two girls from Regents) won 1st place in engineering, and the lower division team (5th graders Willa S and April A, and 6th graders Mae T, and Aggie H) won 2nd place in engineering. Congratulations to our GEM winners who really can 'Solve Like a Girl.'