Events

European Mathematical Cup

The European Mathematical Cup (EMC, https://emc.mnm.hr/) is an International high school math competition organized by the Croatian association Young Gifted Mathematicians Marin Getaldić (www.mnm.hr) in cooperation with esteemed professors and university students.

Math and Science Club is honored to serve as one of the two organizers for the 13th EMC in the United States.

The competition took place on Saturday, December 21st. Participants had four hours to solve four challenging problems similar to the IMO problems, one from each of the following areas: algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory. This year, eight high school students from across the country participated in the competition.

STEM Party

We hosted a STEM Party with lots of fun, hands-on experiments on May 19th 2024, to celebrate our last weekly meeting of the school year. We tried the thrilling "walking on eggs", made elephant toothpaste and lava lamps, and enjoyed making our own delicious ice creams. It was an absolute blast!

Celebrate Earth Day Weekend

Math & Science Club will lead several activities there.

Come visit our booth at the Fair!

Meet Pharmacists

Meet a Mathematician

On March 3, 2024, we met Jessie Oehrlein, an atmospheric scientist and statistician/mathematician. Jessica was an active player in competition math, and is a grader at AoPS. She uses math and statistics to study atmospheric science, and she talked about the work she did across areas of math and stats!

High School Student Panel

On February 25, 2024, Math + Science Club hosted a student panel for middle schoolers and parents to ask questions about high school registration and extracurricular activities, including STEM, speech and debate, sports, music, chess, etc. We had high school volunteers from various school districts and backgrounds answering questions. Testimonials are listed below:

"Thank you to all the brilliant high schoolers who came to share their experiences with the kids (& parents). It was so inspiring for my young daughter to see so many bright girls speak positively about school, using time wisely, prioritizing sleep, minimizing distractions, finding positive friend groups. I know she felt inspired. I appreciated the messages to the parents - I feel inspired to be better too."

"My daughter’s highlight was having the high school girls teach the math class. It is so inspiring to young girls to meet brilliant older girls who are talented in math, physics, debate & chess. Thanks for sharing your time!"

"My son was also very inspired by the older boys who spoke today. Such an impressive panel!"

Meet a Computational Biologist

On February 18th, 2024, we had a roundtable discussion with Anna-Leigh, a computational biologist studying brain cells. Her work focuses on how brain cells get sick during dementia and to answer that she writes code to be able to see which proteins brain cells are making when sick. This is a very interesting article she wrote on her research: https://thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/neurobiology/solving-a-decade-long-mystery-neurons-hold-the-key-to-rare-neurological-diseases

2024 Winter Tournament

The Math and Science Club 2024 Winter Tournament, held on January 28, 2024, included three events:

Science Bowl: Standard Science Bowl rules, with $10 prizes per person awarded to the champion team of each division.
Estimathon: Rules can be found at https://estimathon.com. Prizes of $10 and Estimathon T-shirts per person were awarded to the champion team.
MATHCOUNTS Countdown: Prizes of $20, $10, and $10 were awarded for the top three places in each division.

The results are listed below. Congrats to these outstanding contestants! (Pictures will be uploaded soon.)

Science Bowl Champion:

6th-grade division: Roger Yang, Branden Qiao, Jonathan Hong, and Yilong Hou

7/8th-grade division: Yan-Ru Cao, Evan Truong, Addison Shi, Owen Jensen, and Alex Ren

Estimathon Champion: Krithik Moorthy, Ethan James, Eric Luo, Denmark Kroc, Min-Yi Cao, and Zachary Larson

MATHCOUNTS Countdown top three places:

6th-grade division:

1st place: Branden Qiao (Wayzata East Middle School)

2nd place: Roger Yang (Minnetonka Middle School West)

3rd place: Min-Yi Cao (Minnetonka Middle School East)

7/8th-grade division:

1st place: Jefferson Zhou (Wayzata East Middle School)

2nd place: Zachary Wang (Minnetonka Middle School West)

3rd place: Yan-Ru Cao (Minnetonka Middle School East)

2023-2024 Winter STEM Seminar Series

2023 Summer Tournament

On Sunday, July 16, 2023, the Math + Science Club hosted its first ever tournament, featuring the MATHCOUNTS Countdown Round and Science Bowl. The results are listed below. Congratulations to these outstanding contestants!

MATHCOUNTS Countdown Round:

1st place: Nicolas Trujillo (Minnetonka Middle School East)

2nd place: Mark Shi (Lake Middle School)

3rd place: Jeffrey Hao (Lake Middle School)

Science Bowl:

1st place: Addison Shi, Olivia Zhou, Evelyn Ge, Megan Li, Andreas Walexon

2nd place: Jefferson Zhou, Austin Wang, Eric Ding, Xinlai Tan, Mark Shi

3rd place: Evan Truong, Sophie Kannapiran, Owen Wang, Hu Hong, Roger Yang

Rake-a-thon Volunteer

On October 29th, 2023, the club raked leaves for seniors in need. We enjoyed the beautiful fall weather, spent time with friends, savored hot cocoa and cookies, and made a contribution to our community!