Laramie High senior Corbyn Guse wins Wyoming Trig Star Award

Corbyn Guse, a Laramie High School senior, has won the Wyoming State Trig Star Award, putting one of Albany County School District #1’s top math students on a path that runs from the LHS classroom to the University of Wyoming and, eventually, to a Wyoming teaching career.

Albany County School District #1 announced the honor June 4, giving local recognition to a student whose strength in trigonometry has already been noticed beyond Laramie. The Trig-Star program is an annual high school mathematics competition sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors. It focuses on trigonometry and its practical applications in surveying, a field that depends on exact measurements and the math skills students build in high school.

The program was created in 1983 by Russell E. Kastelle as a way to promote excellence in math and build awareness of surveying as a profession. State winners, including Guse, are eligible to compete for the national Trig-Star title. The competition carries added weight beginning in 2026, when national student awards rose to $4,000 for first place, $2,000 for second and $1,000 for third, along with separate teacher awards.

Guse’s win fits a broader academic profile that already points toward the University of Wyoming. UW said in May that Guse received honorable mention in the university’s Wyoming Pi Days competition and will attend full time in fall 2026 as a secondary mathematics education major. That next step gives his Trig-Star win a clear local payoff: a Laramie High graduate moving toward a degree that could bring him back into Wyoming classrooms as a math teacher.

The award also ties classroom math to a career field with direct use in Wyoming, where surveying supports land work, development and infrastructure across the state. Trig-Star was built around that connection, turning a high school contest into a pipeline from algebra and trigonometry to careers that keep projects on the ground and students in the state. For Albany County, Guse’s achievement is a visible example of that pipeline at work.