HHS Advanced Two Teams in Moody's Math Challenge for the Second Straight Year

The two Harrison High School Moody’s Mega Math Challenge teams advanced to the second round for the 2nd time in two years. Nationally nearly 1,100 teams submitted solutions to this year’s Moody’s Mega Math Challenge problem pertaining to the automobile industry and the car-sharing market.

Harrison fielded the same two teams for consecutive years. The teams are:
Team #1 – Ella Eisinger, Jessica Scazzero, Sarah Ryan, Andrea Bolivar and Mihoko Sakanaka
Team #2 – Andrew Carton, Amr El-Azizi, Phil Milana, Evan Burger, and Dillon Bogart

Working in teams, students used publicly available information and data on consumer driving habits and emerging automotive industry technologies to build mathematical models categorizing the car usage habits of drivers in the US. They then used their models to evaluate car-sharing business options, taking into account new technologies that are close to entering the mainstream including self-driving cars and vehicles that run entirely on alternative fuels or renewable energy, and then predicted which option would garner the most participation in a given city.

Only 174 teams advanced to the second round held in Philadelphia in mid-May. While there, judges identified 90 teams that will receive a share of the $150,000 in scholarship prizes offered by the contest’s sponsor –The Moody’s Foundation.

The first year, the all boys team received honorable mention and this year, the all-girls team received the same accolade. Harrison was one of six New York teams to be awarded honorable mention and a $1,000 scholarship this year.

New York State Honorable Mention Winners:
1. Edgemont Jr./Sr. High School, Scarsdale, New York
2. Harrison High School, Harrison, New York (Team #1)
3. Hunter College High School, New York, New York
4. Shoreham-Wading River HS, Shoreham, New York
5. Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York
6. The Nightingale-Bamford School, New York, New York