KateLyn Mocko of Fairview has won the designation 2015-2016 Trig-Star for northeastern Montana and Fairview High School in a recent competition.
She is the daughter of Gary and Monica Mocko.
The contest was sponsored by the Montana Association of Registered Land Surveyors Northeast Chapter, and Interstate Engineering.
Co-winner is Sadie Swenson, daughter of Donald Swenson from Fairview.
Both are members of Fairview’s Class of 2016.
Mocko will receive an award of $150 from the Montana Association of Registered Land Surveyors. Swenson will receive an award of $100 from the Montana Association of Registered Land Surveyors.
Each will receive $150 cash awards from the Northeast Chapter of the Montana Association of Registered Land Surveyors and Hewlett-Packard HP-33 digital calculators compliments of Selby’s in Billings.
A TRIG-STAR is a mathematics student who has demonstrated in competition that they are the most skilled among classmates in the practical application of trigonometry. The competition for the honor is a timed exercise which is the solving of a trigonometry problem that incorporates the use of right triangle formulas, circle formulas, the law of sines, and the law of cosines. The contest helps to promote careers in surveying and mapping to students at the High Schools across the country.
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