Cal Poly Math Students Awarded Highest Honor in International Competition A team of Cal Poly students has once again finished among the world's best in an international mathematics competition. This year, of the more than 700 teams that began the competition, only 495 submitted a solution paper. The competition, sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, lasts 89 grueling hours. The team must submit a typed solution paper for judging by 5 p.m. Monday. The Cal Poly team selected a problem that asked them, through a sequence of four increasingly difficult scenarios, to determine the assignment of radio frequencies to a symmetric network of transmitter locations so as to avoid interference.
Teams compete on their own campuses.
Solution papers are sent to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for initial judging and then sent to Harvey Mudd College for final judging. New National Planning Award A recently graduated Cal Poly student has been named to become the first recipient of a top national award for leadership in community planning. In accepting the award, Pernell will be in the company of New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, receiving the APA's Distinguished leadership Award for an Elected Official, and long-time planning guru and author Frederick Bair, winner of this year's Distinguished Leadership Award for a Professional Planner. For that record and her academic achievements, the organization chose her from a field of 121 nominees to be the first recipient of the new student leadership award. For her senior project, she drew up a detailed plan for future development at Cal Poly's Student Experimental Farm and led the construction of a small straw-bale structure at the site.