On March 16 the Smith Middle School math team competed in the State MathCounts Finals in Durham. All eight students from Smith finished among the top 26 individuals in the state and the team came in second place.
On March 22 the math team competed in the qualifying round of the N.C. State Mathematics competition. Smith came in second place in both Algebra 1 and Geometry and first place in Algebra 2. Eight students qualified for the State Mathematics Contest finals. They are Sarah Wu, Jennifer Zou, Tejal Patwardhan, Lizzie Yang, Vijay Dey, Stas Kuzmenko, Matthew Dai and Andrew Zhang.