On December 1st, top math students in third, fourth and fifth grades from Big Otter Elementary, Clay Elementary, H.E. White Elementary and Lizemore Elementary met at the Clay High School Auditorium, quite possibly for the last time, to compete for prestigious awards in the annual Hugh Boggs Math Field Day. Each year, students compete within their schools to earn the right to represent at the competition to show who is best at answering oral computation questions as well as who is best with the written math questions. Mr. Hugh Boggs was an educator for Clay County Schools for a great many years and felt that math skills were very important to the success of all students. His dedication to education and to mathematics is honored each year as the best and brightest math students from grades three through five meet to carry on his legacy and prove that math can be fun as well as challenging. Third grade oral competition awards were: 1st place – Jeremiah Davis, Clay; 2nd place Clinton Deel, Lizemore; 3rd place – Easton Leftwich, H.E. White; 4th place – Lucas Taylor Bird, Big Otter. Third grade written competition awards were: 1st place –Paislea Morton, Clay; 2nd place – Mary Melton, H.E. White; 3rd place – Macy
Bodkins, Lizemore; and 4th place – Zoey Raynor, Big Otter. Fourth grade oral competition awards were: 1st place – River Schoolcraft, Clay; 2nd place – Zavara Detamore, Lizemore; 3rd place – Paisley Adkins, Big Otter; and 4th place – Preston Holtsclaw, H. E. White. Fourth grade written competition awards were: 1st place – Lyla Titus, Big Otter; 2nd place – Vance Lynch, Lizemore; 3rd place – Korben Adkins, Clay; and 4th place – Grayson Caldwell, H.E. White. Fifth grade oral competition awards were: 1st place – Colton Hersman, Clay; 2nd place – Travis Nichols, Lizemore; 3rd place Silas Starcher, Big Otter; and 4th place – Mason Conley, H.E. White. Fifth grade written competition awards were: 1st place – Carson Brown, Clay; 2nd place – Aiden Adkins, H.E. White; 3rd place – Sophia Boggs, Big Otter; and 4th place – Jakeub Bird, Lizemore. There is also a traveling trophy that goes home with the school with the most students placing at the top. This year, Clay Elementary earned the right to house the Hugh Boggs Math Field Day trophy for the year. Congratulations to these boys and girls for all of their study and dedication. You are great representatives of both your school and Clay County Schools as a whole.
