2010 M3 Challenge Champions from Montgomery Blair High School

Top six teams presented their solution papers to a panel of applied mathematicians in the final round of judging on April 28, 2010 at Moody's Corporation headquarters in Manhattan.

This year's Challenge required students, working in teams within a 14-hour time constraint, to evaluate U.S. Census Bureau figures and methods, and submit a paper proposing recommendations for undercount adjustment, the best method for apportioning the U.S. House of Representatives, and the fairest way to draw Congressional districts.

Now in its fifth year, Moody's Mega Math Challenge is an Internet-based math competition open to high school juniors and seniors living in the 18 states along the East Coast. It spotlights applied mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, as a viable and exciting profession, and as a vital contributor to advances in an increasingly technical society. Funded by The Moody's Foundation and organized by SIAM, it challenges students, working in teams of three to five, to solve an open-ended, realistic, applied math-modeling problem focused on a real-world issue in just 14 hours using only free and publicly available resources. This year, 531 teams participated in the competition, an increase of about 37% over last year. Scholarship prizes total $100,000 in 2010. Complete details, sample problems, and archives of previous winners and Challenge events are available at http://m3challenge.siam.org.

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[yaler94]

Congrats Blair!