2021: Winning Solutions

M3 CHALLENGE FINALISTS (Top 6 teams)

The top six awards, ranging from $6,500 to $22,500 (£4660–£16,130), were awarded after the final round of judging on April 26 to teams representing the following high schools.

M3 Challenge Champion, $22,500 (£16,130) Team Prize
Livingston High School (Team #14817), Livingston, New Jersey
Coach: Cheryl Coursen / Students: Aditya Desai, Sidhant Srivastava, Leo Stepanewk, Edward Wang, Charles Yu

M3 Challenge Runner Up, $17,000 (£12,187) Team Prize
High Technology High School (Team #14694), Lincroft, New Jersey
Coach: Raymond Eng / Students: Adithya Balachandran, Lasya Balachandran, David Chang, Alexander Postovskiy, Hazem Zaky

M3 Challenge Third Place, $12,000 (£8,603) Team Prize
Johns Creek High School (Team #14482), Johns Creek Georgia
Coach: Julie Meert / Students: Jason Bao, Aditya Bora, Mehul Dhoot, Joseph Suharno, Austin Tsang

M3 Challenge Finalist, $6,500 (£4660) Team Prize
Adlai E Stevenson High School (Team #14485), Lincolnshire, Illinois
Coach: Paul Kim / Students: Spandan Goel, Greycen Ren, Andrew Liu, Gabriel Visotsky, Joy Qu

M3 Challenge Finalist, $6,500 (£4660) Team Prize
Adlai E Stevenson High School (Team #14486), Lincolnshire, Illinois
Coach: Paul Kim / Students: Emily Hu, James Kim, Brandon Lu, Sai Merneedi, Praneet Rathi

M3 Challenge Finalist, $6,500 (£4660) Team Prize
Julia R Masterman Middle High School (Team #14665), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coach: Kathryn Smith / Students: Tobias Beidler-Shenk, Tanay Bennur, Hayden Gold, Owen Moss, Ethan Soloway


TECHNICAL COMPUTING FINALISTS

The top three awards, ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 (£716 – £2,148), were awarded after the final round of judging on April 26 to teams representing the following high schools.

Technical Computing Winner, $3,000 (£2,148) Team Prize
Nueva School (Team #14656), Hillsborough, California
Coach: Ted Theodosopoulos / Students: Elliot Chin, Ryan Cheng, Sebastian Deery, Joseph Kraus, Nikhil Thakur

Between Challenge weekend and the Final Event presentations, this team made a few fixes and changes to their code. We are posting it to show what improvements they made given more than the 14 hour Challenge work time. View their updated code here.

Technical Computing Runner Up, $2,000 (£1,432) Team Prize
Richard Montgomery High School (Team #14928), Rockville, Maryland
Coach: Warren Wilkerson / Students: Alexander Karbowski, Jerry Shen, Danesh Sivakumar, Tony Wu, Junzhi Xie

This team made a few fixes and changes to their code after Challenge weekend and the Final Event presentations. We are posting it to show what improvements they made given more than the 14 hour Challenge work time. View their updated code here.

Technical Computing Third Place, $1,000 (£716) Team Prize
Pine View School (Team #14525), Osprey, Florida
Coach: Mark Mattia / Students: Uday Goyat, Grace Jiang, Maxim Kasyanenko, Julia Kourelakos, Danny McDonald


HIGHEST RANKING UK TEAM

Honorable Mention Team Prize, $1,000 (£716)
King Edwards School (Team #14679) Bath, Somerset
Coach: Philip Davies / Students: Jack Garrard, Filip Oczko, Max Smith, Carl Willis