February 5 - 9
Bethel is once again fielding a talented team of problem-solvers for the annual COMAP competition. Each year Bethel competes against teams from hundreds of colleges and universities around the world to see which team can come up with the best solution to an open-ended mathematical problem. Bethel has had remarkable success in recent years.
Rules
 | They have 96 hours from Thursday the 5th at 8 p.m. EST until Monday the 9th at 8 p.m. EST |
| They will not know what the problem is until they begin on Thursday |
Previous Teams
| 2003 Teams: Both teams received the second highest rating of meritorious |
| 2002 Teams: Team 1 received the highest possible rating of outstanding and Team 2 with the second highest rating of meritorious |
| 2001 Team: Received the highest possible rating of outstanding |
This Year's Team!
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Pete Wall Rob "Putty" Putman Tom Beukhof |
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The 2004 COMAP Team with Advisor Dr. Bill Kinney |
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This Mathematical Contest in Modeling is organized by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) and sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). See http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/ for further information.
Make sure you cheer them on if you see
them hard at work!