2017 HiMCM commentary

2017 HiMCM commentary

 

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The High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM) continues to be an amazing and rewarding experience for students, advisors, schools, and judges. A total of 938 teams, with up to 4 students each, from 256 schools competed. Congratulations to our 2017 Outstanding team winners and to all teams participating in our twentieth year of HiMCM! Outstanding Teams Capital High School, Helena, MT, USA Advisor: Dennis Peterson Columbus North High School, Columbus, IN, USA Advisor: Mike Spock North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC, USA Advisor: Daniel Teague (2 Teams) Raffles Institution, Singapore Advisor: Haojin Yang Shenzhen College of International Education, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Advisor: Dan Li Shenzhen Vanke Meisha Academy, Shenshen, Guangdong, China Advisor: Wentao Zhang St. Mark’s School, Southboro, MA, USA Advisor: Allyson Brown YK Pao School, Shanghai, China Advisor: Jianping Yang

The solutions we received were truly impressive. Our participating teams accomplished the vision of our founders by providing unique and creative mathematical solutions to complex open-ended real-world problems. As in the past, students chose from two problems, both representing “real-world issues.” This year’s problems allowed students to either plan a drone aerial light show in Drone Clusters as Sky Light Displays Problem A, or design a ski resort in our Ski SlopeProblem B. The final judging results and 2017 HiMCM statistics are shown in Figure 1.

 

Overview

 

The HiMCM, now in its twentieth year, continues to grow. As more high schools engage their students in mathematical modeling, we hope participation in the contest will follow. Figure 2 shows a plot of the growth over time. The trend continues to reflect an increasing engagement of high school students in mathematical modeling.

 

The 2017 contest had 1044 registered teams resulting in 938 total submissions (89.8%), a registration increase of about 10% over last year. In total, 3922 students competed in the contest, representing an increase of 10%.A wide range of schools/teams competed including teams from Australia,Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Germany, Hong Kong (SAG), Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. The 359 teams from the United States represented 28 states. This number was up 8.8% from last year. Submissions included 579 foreign teams, representing a 13.5% growth. China represented about 91% of the foreign entries.

 

Of the 3922 student participants this year, 1390 or about 37.4% were female, 2429 were male, and 103 did not specify gender. Since the start of HiMCM in 1999, females represent 36.4% (10,985) of the 30,097 total participants. This participation has been fairly consistent over a number of years. We hope that all competing students will enjoy their contest experience and continue to pursue further STEM education.

 

Problem Choice

 

We congratulate all students and advisors for the creativity and ingenuity of their mathematical efforts.