Belleville Middle School student Jack Nolden was recently presented with a plaque from the Math League, an organization dedicated to high-level math enrichment. Based in New Jersey, the Math League conducts state, national, and international contests for grades 4-12, and is a popular math activity in many Wisconsin schools.

During the 2015-16 school year, over 275 Wisconsin schools participated including Brookfield, Onalaska, Fort Atkinson, Beloit, and Cambridge, to name a few. Jack scored first in a field of over 1,500 Wisconsin seventh graders who took the Math League exam in February...