Emil Hoopes excels on YSU MathFest team

2015 Aug 26

Emil Hoopes of Warren, Ohio, made a presentation as part of the Youngstown State University team at the 2015 MathFest in Washington D.C., earlier this month.

The presentation was titled: Developing an Educational Sudoku Application.

MathFest is the annual summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America and Pi Mu Epsilon. In all, 12 YSU students attended and gave oral presentations of their research projects.

Five YSU students won awards, the most from any university at the competition.

The YSU team has historically been one of the most successful at the annual event. YSU won its first award in 1989 and has won at least one award every year since, except in 1992 and 1994. YSU students won a record number of awards in 2013 with six. The team won five awards in 2005, 2006 and again this year.

Since 2000, YSU students have averaged 3.5 awards per year. No other school has won more than three awards in any one year.