![]() Sponsored by the Advantage Testing Foundation and global trading firm Jane Street, MP4G is the largest contest of its kind in North America and has also served as an unofficial pipeline to MIT. ![]() The 35 top scorers will be invited to compete next month in the 2022 Math Prize Olympiad, a four-hour exam with four proof-oriented problems taken at their schools. The winners are posted on the foundation’s Art of Problem Solving website. The next four winners won $2,000 each, and winners in 10th through 17th places got $300. The next four winners were Isabella Zhu, a 12th grader from Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, whose score of 15 earned her $20,000 California 10th graders Ishani Agarwal of Saratoga High School and home-schooled Angela Liu each scored of 12, to earn $7,000 each and 10th grader Emily Yu of Mendon High School in New York, whose score of 11 earned $4,000. ![]() “The contest problems were challenging and very interesting, and the opportunity to meet fellow mathletes from around the country was phenomenal!" says Wan. (The MP4G event was on hiatus for two years due to the pandemic.) She also won it in the last contest, in 2019, as an eighth grader. The awards ceremony in Kresge Auditorium featured a performance by the MIT Logarhythms a cappella group, a keynote lecture from Boston College Professor Eli Grigsby on "Geometry and Neural Networks," and presentation of awards to the top 35 contestants.įlorida Virtual School junior Jessica Wan received the top $50,000 prize with a score of 17 out of 20. There was a campus tour, dinner, and a game night, and on Sunday they enjoyed breakfast before the contest, and lunch together before the awards ceremony.Īs they took a 2.5-hour exam with 20 multistage problems in in geometry, algebra, and trigonometry, their parents attended a panel by Math Prize alumnae that included MIT PhD candidates Velina Kozareva and Rachel Zhang ’21. The female “mathletes” who had qualified to take the exam by scoring well on the recent American Mathematics Competition exam began the MP4G weekend on a Saturday attending social events. MP4G alumnae have formed an expanding network to debunk gender stereotypes within STEM fields, and to help pass the keys to that garden along to a whole new generation of girls from the United States and Canada. The 240 girls in the audience were able to find the keys to open the gate to that garden, in part thanks to the growing sisterhood of the math equation that gathers annually at MIT. We know that more girls are given this message than boys.” “Worst of all, many students are told that the garden of math is not for them - that they are not the right kind of person to succeed at math. “Many people walking around the outside never attempt to glimpse at the other side of what seems to be a high brick wall,” she says. A good math problem is like a walled, secret garden, according to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) head and MIT Professor Asu Ozdaglar, who was addressing an audience of middle and high school female-identifying mathematics contestants at the 14th annual Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) event.
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