Moody's Mega Math (M3) Challenge is an applied mathematics modeling contest for high school students in the New York City metropolitan area. It is sponsored by The Moody's Foundation based in New York City and organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) based in Philadelphia. The M3 Challenge awards $65,000 in scholarship prizes each year to the top teams of three to five juniors and/or seniors that submit viable solutions papers to a real-life modeling problem. There are no entrance or participation fees.
Prizes
The M3 Challenge awards seven categories of team prizes to the top 11 teams. Prize funds are shared equally among all team members; prize money goes directly to the college or university at which each student enrolls:
- Summa Cum Laude Team Prize - $20,000
- Magna Cum Laude Team Prize - $15,000
- Cum Laude Team Prize - $10,000
- Meritorious Team Prize - $7,500
- Exemplary Team Prize - $5,000
- First Honorable Mention Team Prize - $2,500
- Honorable Mention Team Prizes (5 awarded) - $1,000
External links
- M3Challenge.SIAM.org
- http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/mf.intnews13.4.html
- http://philanthropy.moodys.com/page.asp?context=mic&template=mic§ion=hglts
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E5D6153FF930A15757C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
- http://www.ahherald.com/content/view/1651/2/
- http://media.www.fsunews.com/media/storage/paper920/news/2007/05/14/News/Professor.Directs.Judging.In.Math.Competition-2902659.shtml
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