Congratulations to three GT students who worked together as a team last fall to participate in an annual mathematical modeling challenge: SIMIODE VII and obtained an Outstanding Award for their work. I was their coach, which meant that I helped them register and prepare for the challenge, but wasn’t allowed to help them during the official challenge period.
The Outstanding Award is the highest possible honor for this mathematical modeling challenge.
The three students were enrolled in a Dual Enrollment program and are taking undergraduate math courses at Georgia Tech.
The GT School of Math kindly supported their participation by paying for their registration.
What is SIMIODE?
SIMIODE is an international student team challenge in which teams of students select one of three mathematical modeling problems. Each team is tasked with producing a mathematical model and summarizing their model in a video that is no longer than ten minutes.
The three mathematical problems that students can select are in the general area of (A); Chemistry/Life Sciences; (B) Physics/Engineering; and (C) Social Sciences/Humanities.
This year the challenge problems were titled:
- Problem A: Introducing Stress
- Problem B: The Mechanics of Suction Feeding
- Problem C: People Ruin Everything
Students prepare a ten-minute video and post it as “unlisted” in YouTube for judges to score and render constructive comments.
This year the challenge problems were released on 23 October 2022 and team videos were due and posted on 14 November 2022 while judging was completed by 11 December 2022.
Complete information on SCUDEM VII 2022 can be found here.
SIMIODE VII Statistics
366 students participated, forming 142 three student (or less) teams, with 56 coaches. In some cases coaches worked with multiple teams. Several teams did not have coaches. 109 teams submitted a final ten-minute video for judging.
296 volunteer faculty and industry personnel served as judges. The judges rendered 870 team scores and constructive comments. This gave each team, on average, 8 judge scores and comments for a great deal of feedback through which students will grow with respect to their modeling abilities.
Overall, 27 of the 109 submissions obtained an outstanding award.
Team Submission
The SIMIODE YouTube channel has a channel with (most of) the presentations that obtained an outstanding award. The presentation that my students put together is below.
Congratulations to Royce, Adi, and Henry for their excellent work!