2008 Math Modeling Contest
The COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling results are in, and once again our Carroll students did well! We had 1 Meritorious Winner team, 3 Honorable Mention teams, and 3 Successful Participant teams. This year's Meritorious Winner means that for each of the last 7 years, Carroll has placed at least one team in the top 13% world-wide! Congratulations Carroll Modeling team members!
A total of 1542 teams from around the world participated in this year's contests - only 297 (19%) from the US and the other 81% from Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. In all, 12 (<1%) received Outstanding Winner designations, 214 ( 13%) received Meritorious Winner designations, 653 (42%) received Honorable Mention designations, 661 (44%) received Succesful Participant designations, and 2 (<1%) were Unsuccesful Participants.
Meritorious Winner Team
John Foster, John Riggs, Paul VanValkenburg
Honorable Mention Teams
Ben Dunham, Steffan Francischetti, Tony Speranza
Carl Berntsen, Ben Israel, Garrett Thompson
Shawn Andersen, Ian Lyon, Cassie Rapkoch
Successful Participant Teams
Greg Beasley, Dustin Dickerson, Erica Wood
Pam Bennett, Claire Gilbertson, Kelsey Hunt
Chris Casebeer, Kate Dramstad, Elise Klohe
2006 Math Modeling
The team of Kyle Nixon, Steffan Francischetti, and Ben Dunham received a ranking of OUTSTANDING in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling! This places them in the top 1% worldwide, and in the company of Harvard, MIT, Duke, Rice, RPI, CU-Boulder, UC-Davis, and 2 teams from China. Find out more about Math Modeling.
Here are the results from the 2006 Contest:
Outstanding Winners:
* Kyle Nixon - Junior Civil Engineering major (Helena)
* Ben Dunham - Sophomore Math and Computer Science major (Clancy)
* Steffan Francischetti - Sophomore Mathematics/Engineering major (Billings)
Meritorious Award: Elise Klohe, Holly Perryman, and Greg Ray
Meritorious Award: Alaina Garcia, Anthony Rasca, and Ying Zhu
Honorable Mention: Sarah Hartenstein, Lucas Meuchel, and Brahms Zepada
Honorable Mention: Pam Bennett, Jeremy Deter, and Jimmy Hyun
Successful Participant: Shane Garrick, John Riggs, and Paul VanValkenburg
From left: Ben Dunham, Steffan Francischetti, and Kyle Nixon
From left: Ben Dunham, Dr. Holly Zullo, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, Steffan Francischetti, Kyle Nixon, Dr. Mark Parker, and Carroll President Dr. Thomas Trebon
The three Outstanding Winners and Dr. Trebon chat with Governor Schweitzer