CONTEST: MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3)

[Ryan Goble]

Via @TheSIAMNews

MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3) spotlights applied mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool and viable profession. High school student teams compete over a “Challenge Weekend,” with each team allowed a 14-hour work period to solve the real-world problem using mathematical modeling. The competition is internet-based, with no participation fees. Schools may enter up to two teams of three to five juniors or seniors, with a teacher-coach for each team.

Eligibility: Juniors and seniors in high schools in the United States, US territories, Department of Defense schools, home schools, and cyber schools

Deadlines: 2019 team registration opens in November 2018 and closes on February 22, 2019; Challenge Weekend is March 1–4, 2019; judging of finalists will take place on April 29, 2019.

Awards: Top six teams receive scholarship awards, shared equally by members, of $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000 each to three teams; plus $500
to each top team’s teacher-coach; grants to top teams’ schools; separate scholarships ($3,000, $2,000, $1,000) for outstanding programming in the solution process; semifinalist ($1,500 each) and honorable mention ($1,000 each) prizes given at judges’ discretion.

Web: https://m3challenge.siam.org/challenge