AURORA — Cherokee Trail High School senior Jiyong Shim has won a national trigonometry competition, the first time in 26 years that a Colorado student has garnered top honors.
Shim won first place in the Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star competition. The competition is co-sponsored locally by the Aurora Public Works Department and nationally by the National Society of Professional Surveyors.
Shim beat out 33 other students from throughout the country and won $2,000 for taking first place.
Students competed in timed exercises, solving a trigonometry problem using right triangle formulas, circle formulas, the law of sines and the law of cosines, according to a city news release.
Shim’s trigonometry teacher, Dotty Dady, also took first place for the National Teaching Excellence Award.
Carlos Illescas, The Denver Post
