By Erica Solvig
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Add it up. Students from Sycamore Junior High School continued a dynasty this weekend with their sixth-straight state championship in the Ohio Mathcounts competition.

More than 250 students from about 100 schools competed Saturday in Columbus.

"This group is just a phenomenal group," said the Sycamore coach, Dan Mirus, a seventh-grade math teacher. "They are smart kids and they are dedicated to doing well on these contests."

For the contest, which includes algebra and geometry, students first compute 30 questions in 40 minutes without a calculator.

Then they do four sets of questions in 6 minutes per set with a calculator. Each school team also figures out 10 questions together in 20 minutes.

The Sycamore team consisted of eighth-graders Alex Mannion, Billy Tang, April Zhang and seventh-grader Lizzy Wei.

Four other junior high students - Chester Chen, Kevin Lin, Drew Hodun and Zach Reuscher - competed individually and finished in the top 21.

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