Kaleb is a PSP student in 11th grade. He’s loved math since elementary school and has been doing math competitions since 5th grade. This will be his second season coaching at TKA, and he will also continue to serve as Competition Director this year. Though Kaleb has mocked every AMC8 and AMC10 out there, he’s still often surprised by how suddenly and creatively solutions to tough problems can be found. Outside of math, Kaleb’s loves are music and philosophy—he plays cello, possesses some (rather shaky) piano skills, and is currently reading Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.

Jacqueline is a sophomore here at TKA, but feel free to call her “Jackie”. She will serve as the Co-President of the Math Team with Kaleb this year. She fell in love with math in fifth grade, and ever since, it’s been a part of her daily routine. She loves the essence of working towards one objective answer, which is exactly what pulls her into mathematics. She started in math team at TKA five years ago in sixth grade, been coaching since seventh, President since ninth…and she’s really excited to serve everyone! Other than math, some of Jackie’s passions are robotics, dance, and piano.

This is Alyssa’s 5th year involved in math team and second year as a coach. This year, she will serve the math team not only as a coach, the Communication Director, but as Co-Director of Competitions along with Kaleb. Alyssa first joined the math team in 6th grade, right before covid hit, and has developed a love for math ever since. Outside of math team, she loves to dance, read, and play the piano.

Stuart first began loving math during COVID when his friend sent him a YouTube video of a guy who was really excited about math. Since then, he’s joined the math team and has been passionate about problem solving ever since. This will be his third year being involved in the math team and second year as a coach, where he will also help as a graphic designer. Outside of math team, he watches YouTube videos about math, participates in TKA’s tech crew program, procrastinates, writes long emails, and enjoys graphic design and video editing, all while not finishing his homework.

This is Henry’s second year coaching in the math team. He joined the math team in 6th grade during covid, and has enjoyed serving and learning with the team ever since. Henry is currently in 9th grade and loves to play guitar, volleyball, and video games. In math, Henry loves to grind out countdown round problems, and is always pleased when a seemingly complex problem has a simple solution!

This is Giselle's 5th year involved in math team and her 4th year coaching.  She joined math team in 6th grade and has served on the team ever since.  She loves playing tennis, singing, drawing, and playing video games.  Her favorite part about math is its broad applicability in the real world, from simple counting to more complex things such as structural engineering and design.

Kyle is an eleventh-grade math enthusiast who loves participating in math competitions. A few of his math achievements include making USA(J)MO. In his free time, he likes to play basketball, play Genshin Impact, sleep, and steal boba from other people. As a fun fact: he also has a bald spot in the center of his head. He's very excited to serve the Math Team as a coach this year!

This is Daniel’s first year coaching at math team. He joined the math team in 6th grade during online school. He loves coding in C++, table tennis, and tennis. He loves the way that math is so creative and broad in applications. Seeing everything fit together while solving problems is the best part of math for him.

This is Andrew’s first year coaching at math team. He has been in the TKA math team since sixth grade, when they met online. Andrew is currently in 9th grade and enjoys cooking, baking, and playing chess and tennis. He recently learned how to code in Java and Python and joined the TKA Robotics team. An interesting fact about him is that he is left-handed.