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A team of 11th and 12th graders from Livingston High School took home a top prize of $22,500 in college scholarships during an international math competition. (Image: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics/Zoom)
LIVINGSTON, NJ Participation in an intensive, online international math competition has added up to a first-place win for a group of New Jersey high school students. The team of five 11th and 12th graders from Livingston High School in Livingston took home the top prize of $22,500 in college scholarships, out of the total $125,000+ being awarded, after being chosen as winners yesterday. Thousands of high school juniors and seniors across the U.S. and sixth form students in the U.K. vied for distinction in this year s MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, a prestigious competition that demonstrates the importance of math in everyday life.
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.