A team of students from Rufus King High School took third place in Milwaukee School of Engineering’s annual“OP”portunity Math Conference. The OP Conference gives high school students a chance to demonstrate academic skills. Competitions challenge the abilities of students at all levels.

In the OP Math competition, students worked to solve problems in a number of categories including: algebra, geometry, advanced math and problem solving. There was a team competition, in which 20 groups, including the team from Rufus King, participated. The team was coached by teacher Jennifer Neuenschwander.