Top teams face final hurdle in Moody s Mega Math Challenge

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1 Top teams face final hurdle in Moody s Mega Math Challenge More than 425 high school students will receive scholarships for their models of new approaches to car sharing and driving technology; top prize decisions on April 25 Teams representing the following 78 schools will be awarded Honorable Mention Team Prizes of $1,000 each for noteworthy solutions: Academy for Allied Health and Biomedical Sciences, Woodbridge, New Jersey Andover High School, Andover, Kansas Avon High School, Avon, Indiana Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, New Jersey Biotechnology High School, Freehold, New Jersey Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Indianapolis, Indiana Brookfield Central High School, Brookfield, Wisconsin Chamblee Charter High, Chamblee, Georgia Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chesterton High School, Chesterton, Indiana Council Rock High School South, Holland, Pennsylvania Earl Wooster High School, Reno, Nevada East Grand Rapids High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan Eastside High School, Gainesville, Florida Edgemont Jr./Sr. High School, Scarsdale, New York Enloe High School, Raleigh, North Carolina Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois Fort Mill High School, Fort Mill, South Carolina George Washington High School, Denver, Colorado Gloucester High School, Gloucester, Massachusetts

2 Greensboro Day School, Greensboro, North Carolina Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona Harrison High School, Harrison, New York Health Careers HS, San Antonio, Texas High Technology, Lincroft, New Jersey Holmdel High School, Holmdel, New Jersey Hudson High School, Hudson, Massachusetts Hunter College High School, New York, New York Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington, New Jersey Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois J. R. Masterman School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lake Zurich Senior High School, Lake Zurich, Illinois Lower Moreland High School, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania Maggie L Walker Governor's School, Richmond, Virginia Marlboro High School, Marlboro, New Jersey Mentor High School, Mentor, Ohio Meridian School, Round Rock, Texas Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey Montgomery Blair, Silver Spring, Maryland Nashoba Regional High School, Bolton, Massachusetts Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinois North Oldham High School, Goshen, Kentucky North Penn High School, Lansdale, Pennsylvania Northview High School, Johns Creek, Georgia Northwestern Lehigh High School, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania Norton High School, Norton, Massachusetts Oregon Episcopal School, Portland, Oregon Overland High School, Aurora, Colorado Pine View School, Osprey, Florida

3 Providence Academy, Plymouth, Minnesota Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii Ridge High School, Basking Ridge, New Jersey Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield, Connecticut Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield, Connecticut Sachse High School, Sachse, Texas Shoreham-Wading River HS, Shoreham New York Silver Creek High School, Longmont, Colorado South County High School, Lorton, Virginia Spring-Ford High School, Royersford Pennsylvania St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Dover, New Hampshire Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn, Virginia Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York The Columbus Academy, Gahanna, Ohio The Nightingale-Bamford School, New York New York Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia Valley High School, West Des Moines, Iowa Vilonia High School, Vilonia, Arkansas West Ottawa High School, Holland, Michigan West Windsor-Plainsboro HS South, Princeton Junction, New Jersey Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey Weymouth High School, South Weymouth, Massachusetts White Bear Lake Area High School, White Bear Lake, Minnesota Winchester high school, Winchester, Massachusetts Wylie East High School, Wylie, Texas

4 Organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), M 3 Challenge gives high school students the opportunity to answer broad questions by applying mathematics and quantifying the related variables, and encourages them to study and pursue careers in science and math. The Challenge is free, requiring only accessibility to the Internet. To view the complete problem statement, visit For more information about the Challenge, see About the Sponsor Built on the recognition that a company grows stronger by helping others, The Moody s Foundation works to enhance its communities and the lives of its employees by providing grants and engaging in community service in local neighborhoods. The Moody s Foundation, established in 2002 by Moody s Corporation, partners with nonprofit organizations to support initiatives such as education in the fields of mathematics, finance, and economics, as well as workforce development, civic affairs, and arts and culture. For more information, please visit About the Organizer The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an international society of over 14,000 individual members, including applied and computational mathematicians and computer scientists, as well as other scientists and engineers. Members from 85 countries are researchers, educators, students, and practitioners in indus try, government, laboratories, and academia. The Society, which also includes nearly 500 academic and corporate institutional members, serves and advances the disciplines of applied mathematics and computational science by publishing a variety of books and prestigious peer-reviewed research

5 journals, by conducting conferences, and by hosting activity groups in various areas of mathematics. SIAM provides many opportunities for students including regional sections and student chapters. Further information is available at