Welcome to Somerville Mathematics

Welcome to Somerville Mathematics, a blog devoted to exciting mathematical things happening in Somerville MA. I am the founder of The Somerville Mathematics Fund, www.Somervillemathematicsfund.org
The Math Fund was chartered to celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville. I hope you will check out my TEDxSomerville talk on the Somerville Math Fund,
I find that there are many other interesting things happening mathematically in Somerville and I hope on this blog to have others share what they are doing. So please contact me at mathfund@gmail.com if you would like to contribute an article.
Erica

Monday, September 9, 2024

Scrapheap Showdown is Coming -- time to get your team together!

 Scrapheap Showdown is Coming ... time to get your teams together.  Get two more friends and register your team.  Choose a crazy name for the team and then all come on October 20th to Breed Memorial Hall on Tufts University at 51 Winthrop St Medford -- a new location this year!

After two years off for the Pandemic, Scrapheap Showdown came back last year.  Here is the video of  2022's Scrapheap Showdown, Good Vibrations.    and here is 2023's Scrapheap Showdown Marble Mayhem

The Somerville Math Fund's annual high school engineering challenge is coming on Sunday October 20th.  It will be held at Breed Memorial Hall, at 51 Winthrop St on Tufts University in Medford.  Sign-in is at noon.  

But you must register before online here before October 6th. --ADD new link

Teams of three will arrive to discover what will be their challenge to build this year.  If you're interested in seeing some of the previous years' projects.


To compete you must be a high school student living in Somerville MA. Click here to register.  Somerville high school students are encouraged to register and participate.

Start organizing your team NOW, the registration is due on October 6th.

In the past, the teams not only came up with creative names for their teams, but they also came up with interesting creative solutions to the annual challenges.  We always have great prizes.

Go forth and form your teams of three!

Scrapheap Showdown is Coming ... time to get your teams together.  Get two more friends and register your team.  Choose a crazy name for the team and then all come on October 20th to Tufts U Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop Street Medford.

Good Luck!




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