NSU University School Students Excel in Prestigious National Math Competition

NSU University School is proud to congratulate Upper School students Sofia and Justin for their successful competition in the 2020 MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge. They competed alongside 760 teams from across the nation and were selected among the top 19% of teams to advance to the second round of judging. The M3 Challenge is a prestigious national competition that demonstrates the importance of math in everyday life. Students gain the experience of working as a team to tackle a real-world problem under time and resource constraints.

For this year’s challenge, students used mathematical modeling to predict what percentage of semi-trucks will be electric in the next few years and decades, determine the number of locations of charging stations along major U.S. trucking routes that are needed for an all-electric trucking industry, and prioritize which routes should be developed with electric charging infrastructure first. We are proud of our students for their hard work.