COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 27, 2006) — Two area high school students, center, Will Pickering of the McCallie School in Chattanooga and, right, John Cooper of Oak Ridge High School, each won $2,000 and Texas Instruments graphing calculators recently at the Who Wants to Be a Mathematician competition presented by the American Mathematical Society and held at Tennessee Tech University. Presenting their awards is, left, Mike Breen, the AMS representative who hosts the contest. Cooper and Pickering were among eight students involved in the TTU competition. (Photo: TTU

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This information posted 27 September 2006