A group of high school students in Rockville, Maryland, have taken their love for math to the next level.
Richard Montgomery High School students Alexander Karbowski, Jerry Shen, Danesh Sivakumar, Tony Wu, and Junzhi Xie entered an international competition focused on using math to solve real-world problems.
The challenge was to use math to find a solution to making internet accessible to all.
And if that seemed a little too easy: The team only had 14 hours to do it virtually.
“For me, [it] opened my mind to how many different ways math can be used beyond just looking at formulas,” said Richard Montgomery senior Shen.
High Tech students advance to finals in international math competition
High Tech students advance to finals in international math competition
A global pandemic did not stop a group of High Technology High School students from coming together to participate in an international math competition.
A combination of math smarts and creative thinking has added up to a top spot for the team, whose work was selected as one of the best solutions to the problem of how to make internet access available to everyone, according to a press release.
The students – Adithya Balachandran, Lasya Balachandran, David Chang, Alexander Postovskiy and Hazem Zaky of Lincroft-based High Technology High School – advanced to the finals in MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, a competition that drew more than 2,400 11th- and 12th-graders in the United States and sixth form students in the United Kingdom this year, according to the press release.
Jason Bao
The team, Jason Bao, Aditya Bora, Mehul Dhoot, Joseph Suharno, and Austin Tsang, spent the past few months developing a solution to the problem of how to make internet access available to everyone.
Using mathematical modeling, students had 14 hours in February and March to come up with a solution to the real-world issue of âhow to defeat the digital divide.â
Bora said he found the M3 Challenge to be unique among other math competitions, and entertaining as well.
â[It] pushed us to balance the quantitative and qualitative realms, breaking down our jumble of numbers into clear, concise explanations,â Bora said. âAnd it was a great opportunity for us to set aside 14 hours with a couple of friends, crack open a soda, and see how we can utilize modeling to change the world.â
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State investigating associated COVID-19 cases at six Montgomery County schools
The Maryland Department of Health is investigating COVID-19 “outbreaks” at six county schools.
The schools are listed on an online database tracking current “outbreaks” because they have at least two cases that are “epidemiologically linked,” according to the website. That is one of three definitions of an “outbreak.”
Other definitions of a school “outbreak” are:
• Three or more classrooms with cases that meet the above criteria within the past 14 days
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