February 14 - 18
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.
Rules
 | They have 96 hours from Thursday the 14th at 7 p.m. until Monday the 18th at 7 p.m. CST. |
| They work on their own without any outside help. |
| They will not know what the problem is until they begin on Thursday. |
This Year's Team!
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Andrew Reid Sarah Kaiser Steve Hill |
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Andrew, Sarah, Steve, Dr. Nathan Gossett (faculty sponsor) |
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Previous Teams
| 2007 Team: Received the third highest rating of Honorable Mention |
| 2006 Team: Received the second highest rating of meritorious |
| 2005 Team: Team 1 Received the second highest rating of meritorious and Team 2 received the fourth ranking of successful participant |
| 2004 Team: Received the second highest rating of meritorious |
| 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 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!