Trig Star 2011 - Trabuco Hills High School On Top

And the winners of the 2011 Trig Star High School Competition are...

Third Place- Gabriel Hahr, Trabuco Hills High School - $200
Second Place - Uma Rajpurkar, Trabuco Hills High School - $300
First Place - Kavan Zommers, Trabuco Hills High School - $500

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ORANGE COUNTY TRIG STARS!!!


Local winners have the opportunity to participate in the National TRIG-STAR competition for scholarship awards.  ALL Orange County participants qualify for scholarships if they choose to major in Survey/Mapping Sciences at Santiago Canyon College, Geospatial Technologies at California Polytechnic University at Pomona, or Geomatics Engineering at California State University at Fresno.  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 simply a timed exercise which is the solving of a trigonometry problem that incorporates the use of right triangle formulas, the law of sines, and the law of cosines.
Nationally, the contest helps to promote professional careers in land surveying and mapping to students in High Schools across the country. The competition is managed nationally by the National Society of Professional Surveyors and sponsored locally by the Orange County Chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association with support from local firms and agencies.  The event was facilitated by Kathy Johnson of Vital Link Orange County.

I want to recognize and thank the following sponsors for their generous support to the 2011 OC-CLSA Trig Star event:
Professional Engineers in California Government (a Caltrans employee association) $750
The Port of Long Beach $500
The Orange County Surveyor's Office $250
Johnson-Frank & Associates, Inc. $250
RBF, Inc. $250

I also would like to express a very special thanks to Juan Vazquez, President of Santiago Canyon College, Steve Kawa, Vice President of Administrative Services, and Tricia Evans, Dean of Career Education at Santiago Canyon College.

Amy Styffe and Julie Peeken of Career Education at Santiago Canyon College are the greatest and hardest working office staff any college could have- THANK YOU! 

Lastly, thanks to the great professionals from Southern California who traveled from Sylmar, Riverside, Los Angeles, and places in between to help proctor the exam.

If you would like to learn more about Trig Star, please contact me at GregSebourn@yahoo.com.