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

Thursday, September 15, 2022

The Scrapheap Showdown is Coming --- time to get your teams 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 23rd to Tufts U Gantcher Center.

After two years off for the Pandemic, Scrapheap Showdown is finally back.  


The Somerville Math Fund's annual high school engineering challenge is coming on Sunday October 23rd.  It will be held at the Gantcher Center at Tufts University.  Sign-in is at noon.  

But you must register before online here before October 7th.

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, click here.


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

Start organizing your team NOW, the registration is due on October 7th.

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 23rd to Tufts U Gantcher Center.

Good Luck!



For questions, contact the Somerville Math Fund at mathfund@gmail.com




The link to his page is: https://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-scrapheap-showdown-is-coming-time.html


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