Seventeen Orcas Island School District students travelled to Bainbridge to compete in this year’s Washington State Middle School Math Olympiad on May 5.

Each year, teams of three to four students gather at sites across the state to compete in an hour-long long problem session, as well as five 20-minute short problem sessions covering number sense, probability and statistics, measurement geometric sense and algebraic sense. Three teams of fifth graders and two teams of eighth graders participated from Orcas, taking home an unprecedented number of awards: three medals for superior achievement and three ribbons for excellent achievement.