YSU student Emily Hoopes of Champion, Ohio, honored in international mathematics competition

2014 Apr 22

Emily Hoopes of Champion, Ohio, a Applied Math and Integrated Math major at Youngstown State University, received an award in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling. More than 6,500 teams of undergraduate students competed worldwide. Hoopes received the distinction "Meritorious" for the submission titled "Making the Grade: Best Coaches of All Time."

Each year, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications holds the Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Teams have 96 hours to develop a model of the problem, create a solution and submit a written report for judging.