TrigStar

NSPS Sponsored High School Math Skill Award


The TrigStar Program Contest is an annual high school mathematics competition sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors based on the practical application of Trigonometry. The program recognizes the best students from high schools throughout the nation.

The purpose of the TrigStar Program:

  • To promote the study of trigonometry in high school and to promote excellence in the mastery of trigonometry by honoring the individual student who has demonstrated superior skill among classmates at the High School level.
  • To acquaint the high school trigonometry students with the use and practical application of trigonometry in the surveying profession.
  • To build an awareness of surveying as a profession among the mathematically-skilled high school students, career guidance counselors and high school math teachers.

TrigStar Contest Levels

  • Level 1 is given at local high schools. There is one winner from each participating high school.
  • Level 2 is the state test. Each of the local high school winners may participate at this level.
  • Level 3 is the national test. The state winner from each participating state is eligible to compete for the National Trig-Star title

Awards - Local
Local and State awards are provided by the local chapter or sponsors.

Awards - National
National awards provided by the National Society of Professional Surveyors Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Scholarships and Teaching Excellence Awards

  • First place winner - $2,000.00 scholarship
  • Second place winner - $1,000.00 scholarship
  • Third place winner - $500.00 scholarship

NSPS TrigStar Program contact:
Susan Frank
National Society of Professional Surveyors
6 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite 403
Gaithersburg, MD 20879

240-632-9716 ext. 103
240-632-1321 (fax)

Email: susan.frank@acsm.net
Website: http://www.acsm.net/trigstar/

National Trig-Star Committee Selects

Winners of the 2005 Richard E. Lomax

National Trig-Star Scholarships and Teaching Excellence Awards

 

The National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Scholarship Awards.  The Trig-Star Committee met on July 16, 2005 to determine the three top high school students from the national examinations submitted by state winners. This year there were thirty- five winners determined, 33 states and two districts. 32 state winners competed in the National contest. The awards will be presented in a special ceremony at the NSPS Board of Governors meeting during the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) annual conference in Orlando, Florida, April 21 - 26 2006.

 

The Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Scholarships are awarded as follows:

 

  • First Place ($2,000): Juwon Lee, Class of 2006, Ann Arbor Huron High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sponsor: Midwestern Consulting, LLC.

  • Second Place ($1,000): Fan Huang, Class of 2006, Urbana High School, Urbana, Illinois. Sponsor: East Central Chapter of the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association.

  • Third Place ($500): William Young, Class of 2005, Hobart High School, Hobart, Indiana. Sponsor: Northeast Chapter Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors.

 

The Richard E. Lomax National Teaching Excellence Awards are presented as follows:

  • First Place ($1,000): Anthony Lauer, Ann Arbor Huron High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  • Second Place ($500): Mr. Louis Beuschlein, Urbana High School, Urbana, Illinois.

  • Third Place ($250): Mrs. Rogers, Hobart High School, Hobart, Indiana.

 

The following is a list of the State Winners in the order of finish:

Holly Howard, Wyoming; Andrew Chen, Minnesota; Nina Dutton, Washington, DC; Mathew Aaron Crocachione, Oregon; Jake Pattyson, Virginia; Jennifer Huang, Mississippi; Pavan Yaswani, Washington; Elissa Dunn, New Jersey; Jae Kim, Alaska; Jingying Yang, Maryland; Daniel Galyon, Tennessee; Jeff Gaston, Connecticut; Andy Hall, Nevada; Yang Gao, Texas; Quantina, Georgia; Brian Michael Hahn, North Carolina; Hannah Young, New York; Kyle Warren, Maine; Xiaochen Su, California; Willie Gonzales Gonzales, Puerto Rico; Bryce Lamp, Wisconsin; Jay Roltgen, Iowa; Peter Thayer, Louisiana; Alan Spydell, New Hampshire; Kellen Begnoche, Kansas, Shannon Moore, Montana; Steven Liu, Pennsylvania; Christina Thompson, Florida; Blake Lawson, Missouri.

 

A past president of NSPS, Richard Lomax was the driving force behind the National Trig-Star Contest. In October 1994, NSPS named this high school trigonometry skill award in his honor. The Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Scholarships and Teaching Excellence Awards are a few of several annual NSPS awards.  For more information about the NSPS awards and scholarship programs, please contact NSPS, 6 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite #403, Gaithersburg, MD  20879, call (240) 632-9716 ext. 113, e-mail: pat.canfield@acsm.net or visit the ACSM web site at http://www.acsm.net.

SCSPLS Sponsorship Application

A local sponsor is needed for each participating High School. Our goal this year is for each Chapter to sponsor at the minimum one High School. If you have a member who would be willing to serve as your Chapter’s representative for 2005-2006, have them contact me. I will make myself available to meet with your representative and work with him on the program this year.

Luther Lee Lown, SCSPLS Trig-Star Chairman
(803) 407-0170 (work), (803) 315-024 (work cell),
(803) 957-2503 (home)