Students may elect to particpate on their own in the first three contests. All CS students and any others who wish will participate in the US Open in the spring. You will have 5 hours to solve 5 programming problems on your own. The High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling is given in January. Teams of 3 or 4 students work together to solve a real world problem.
Credit is given for the quality of the write-up and the sophistication of the mathematical model.
MSSM will field one or two teams selected from students attending the regular preparation sessions.