Topics ranged from Animal Science and Aviation through Zoology. All the session leaders and their assistants volunteered their time. Numerous SIUC students and faculty and members of the community volunteered to help in other ways. Primary support for the conference comes from various units at SIUC, local community colleges and regional school superintendents. For more than 50 years the Department of Mathematics, in conjunction with the College of Science, has sponsored an annual Mathematics Field Day competition for area high school students.
Students take the two-hour exam, which is created, monitored and graded by SIUC math faculty.
There are also awards for outstanding individual scores. For the third year, the College of Science made possible the award of an SIUC scholarship to the highest scoring junior participant. The winner of this award was Christopher M. Starr of Belleville. Trophies were awarded to the top school in each division. Certificates of merit were given in each grade level and division, and in each grade level to top performing students.