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.