{"id":46731,"date":"2025-02-26T17:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2025\/02\/26\/sophie-sacher-from-class-5i-takes-third-place-at-the-state-finals-of-the-math-olympiad\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:20:28","slug":"sophie-sacher-from-class-5i-takes-third-place-at-the-state-finals-of-the-math-olympiad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2025\/02\/26\/sophie-sacher-from-class-5i-takes-third-place-at-the-state-finals-of-the-math-olympiad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Sacher from class 5i takes third place at the state finals of the Math Olympiad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer Grabowski, Hesse\u2019s State Representative for the Mathematics Olympiad at secondary schools, was the one to deliver the good news to Maximilian Moll from the Steinm\u00fchle math department: Once again, Steinm\u00fchle had secured a podium finish in a competition. Fifth-grader Sophie Sacher scored 26.5 out of 40 points in the highly challenging competition, securing third place. Steinm\u00fchle Principal Bj\u00f6rn Gemmer commented on the achievement of the student, who attends Steinm\u00fchle\u2019s International High School Program: \u201cOutstanding!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Emil Zuckermann, also a 5th grader and regional champion, and Orlando Geisel (11th grader) also took on the challenging problems of the Math Olympiad. Unfortunately, Orlando had to withdraw early on the second day due to illness. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Up through 7th grade, the state competition is the highest level that can be reached  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Math Olympiad consists of several rounds, with the difficulty increasing from round to round\u2014culminating in the national round for the top math whizzes starting in 8th grade. For students in grades 3 through 7, the competition ends with the state round and a grand awards ceremony organized by the individual states.<\/p>\n<p>Our photo shows Sophie Sacher at the awards ceremony alongside Brigitte Hirschler from the Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, organizer Rainer Grabowski, and the head of Olympiad Class 5. All the award winners from this Olympiad class then gathered for a group photo. Sophie can be seen in the back row, center. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34970 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-1030x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-scaled.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/20250222_180015_k-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34969 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Neu-klein-1-1030x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34967 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-1030x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-scaled.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/64-3_Preistraeger_05_neu-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"io-ox-signature\">\n<div class=\"default-style\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer Grabowski, Hesse\u2019s State Representative for the Mathematics Olympiad at secondary schools, was the one to deliver the good news to Maximilian Moll from the Steinm\u00fchle math department: Once again, Steinm\u00fchle had secured a podium finish in a competition. Fifth-grader Sophie Sacher scored 26.5 out of 40 points in the highly challenging competition, securing third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":46733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,85,105,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contests-awards","category-news","category-stem","category-talent-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51219,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46731\/revisions\/51219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}