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Please find below the Winter Keystone Exam testing schedule (Module I and Module II) for selectMontour High School students, including all 11 th graders: Algebra I Keystone Exam - Tuesday,December 4, Biology Keystone Exam - Wednesday, December 5, English Literature KeystoneExam - Thursday, December 6. Make-up testing will occur the week of December 10.For more information, please visit the Montour School District Web site and click the link 2012-13Keystone Exam Parent Information under the announcement section.On October 3, a group of eighth grade David E. WilliamsMiddle School students competed in the CalcuSolve Bowlat Duquesne University. CalcuSolve is a competition thattests students’ problem-solving skills related to mathematics.Rosh Bharthi, Dina Condeluci, Aaron Crist, JacobDevos, John Dukewich, Clayton Edwards, Megan Hanlon,and Shawn Rose participated in both individual andgroup competitions. The students were scored both as agroup and as individuals. The Bowl consisted of a total ofnine rounds. Rounds 1 and 9 were group problems whereeach team of four sat as a group and worked together tocalculate an answer within a ten-minute time limit.Rounds 2 through 8 were individual problems whereeach student worked independently.CalcuSolve is sponsored by the II-VI Foundation,whose mission is “to encourage and enable studentsto pursue a career in engineering, science, andmathematics while maintaining a standard of excellencein that pursuit.” Montour School District iscommitted to a STEM (science, technology, engineering,mathematics) cross-curricular approach, andCalcuSolve was an exciting yet competitive experiencethat exposed this team of eighth graders to a funmathematics challenge!