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Eighth-Grader Achieves Anoka-Hennepin School District First  |  February 24, 2025

For anyone who doesn't use advanced math on a daily basis, it can almost look like a foreign language. But then there are students like Sydney Hagel of Brooklyn Park who excel. She's an eighth-grader at Jackson Middle School studying 11th-grade-level math. It's a passion she developed after her parents raised her to problem-solve without their help. "I feel like it's really, so validating," said Hagel. "Because I can be like, 'I found this problem and I fixed it.' I really like feeling like I did something." That problem-solving… Read More

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