More than 6,000 high school students to compete in Moody’s Mega Math Challenge

MARCH 3, 2014
A total of 1,421 teams, composed of 6,412 high school students, will compete for $125,000 in scholarships awarded by The Moody’s Foundation during the 2014 Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge set to take place March 8-9. The annual Internet-based applied math contest organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) poses a timely, real-world issue for participants to solve using applied mathematics. The high school teams have just 14 hours to study the issue, gather data, state assumptions, and devise mathematical models before reporting their results in the form of a solution paper. The competing teams do not know the problem in advance.

Brandon Webster, Sahil Suri, Catherine Henckel, Brian Perez, Aaron Wannemacher, Cori Posner, Brinley Burdge, Alison Masson, Francesca Gualano, and Gui Zhen Chen
comprise the two teams from High Point that are participating in the challenge.
These students spent their Sunday here at High Point working on the Moody's Mega Challenge.
I have had the pleasure of watching these students who have been here since 7 a.m. and have about 3 more hours to complete there solutions to the problem they have been presented with. I am amazed at the teamwork and perseverance the display as they continue to work on their solution.  

If you see them around school tomorrow please congratulate them on a job well done. 
They really are an amazing group of young people and I consider it a privilege to work with them.