IMSA ONE OF TOP FIVE SCHOOLS IN WORLD MATH CONTEST
For Immediate Release,
For comment, contact Brenda Buschbacher at
(630) 907-5033
(Media Note: Students are from Arlington Heights, Aurora, Chicago, Naperville, Vernon Hills and Winnetka.)
IMSA® ONE OF TOP FIVE SCHOOLS IN WORLD MATH CONTEST
AURORA – One team from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) received the highest ranking possible in the ninth annual international High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM). Their performance placed IMSA among the top five schools in the world in this year’s competition.
The IMSA team including Hon Lung Chu of Chicago, Dennis Kriventsov of Arlington Heights, Francisco Saldana of Chicago and Caleb Wang of Vernon Hills received the rank of “National Outstanding”. Only five teams out of 276 that competed worldwide received this ranking. A second IMSA team including Justin Johnson of Aurora, Adam Novak and Nathan Pierson of Naperville and Parker Schmitt of Winnetka received the rank of “Regional Outstanding.”
The High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling is a 36-hour contest where each team is expected to solve a mathematical modeling problem. Each team then prepares and submits a paper discussing their solution to the problem. The IMSA students’ papers will be published this spring in a special issue of COMAP (Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications) bulletin.
The internationally recognized Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) develops creative, ethical leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As a teaching and learning laboratory created by the State of Illinois, IMSA enrolls academically talented Illinois students (grades 10-12) in its advanced, residential college preparatory program. It also serves thousands of educators and students in Illinois and beyond through innovative instructional programs that foster imagination and inquiry. (www.imsa.edu)