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Past Winner Survey
Transmit date: 3/23/2017 Follow-up 3/28/2017
Survey close: 4/7/2017 Recipients: 2,123
Respondents: 377 (Partial/Complete respondents: 63 / 314)
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Q1 Please provide the information below. It will be used to contact you about internships, jobs, and other opportunities. And in a few rare
cases, to follow-up with you about your answers to this survey. First Name Last Name Email Address: Participation year(s)
Daniel Gao [email protected] 2015-2016
Amber Wolf [email protected] 2014
Patrick Braga [email protected] 2011 and 2012
Greg [email protected] 2013
Peixuan Guo [email protected] 2009, 2010
Samantha Stecha [email protected] 1
Albert A Chen [email protected] 2015, 2016
Andrew Griffin [email protected] 2015 & 2016
Michael Donnelly [email protected] 2009
Garrett Rose [email protected] 2010
Steven Tang [email protected] 2012, 2013
Courtney Dobbins [email protected] 2016
Victoria Tsai [email protected] 2015, 2016
Jennifer Jasperse [email protected] 2015
Will Paranzino [email protected] 20152016
Joanne Lee [email protected] 2014, 2015
Owen Clinger [email protected] 2011, 2012
Claire Heffernan [email protected] 2014-2015
May Wang [email protected] 2016, 2015
Fizzah Shaikh [email protected] 2016
Ziwei Lynn Zhang [email protected] 2013
David Haswell [email protected] 2012
Kevin Hare [email protected] 2013, 2014
Hana Pearlman [email protected] 2015, 2016
Melody Shellman [email protected] 2016, 2017
Emily Millican [email protected] 2016
Scott Colby [email protected] 2011
Piper Hill [email protected] 2013, 2014
Emily Schiller [email protected] 2010
Jacob Hurwitz [email protected] 2009, 2010
Eric Li [email protected] 2012
Rachel Myers [email protected] 2010, 2011
Clara Walton [email protected] 2015, 2016
Alan Du [email protected] 20132014
Jason Zukus [email protected] 2008
Jonathan Nguyen [email protected] 2016
Matthew Lei [email protected] 2008
Evan Hufnagle [email protected] 2016
William Wang [email protected] 2016, 2017
Elizabeth Marshman [email protected] 2006
Nathan Walker [email protected] 2014, 2015
Forrest [email protected] 2013
Adam Michael [email protected] 2011
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Brian Fung [email protected] 2009
Rees Chang [email protected] 2016, 2015
John Foster [email protected] 2013;2014
Lauren Lopez [email protected] 2013
Sam Ting [email protected] 2016
Emily Castner [email protected] 2013
Edric Yu [email protected] 2015
Xiao-Yu Wang [email protected] 2010
Patrick Xia [email protected] 2011, 2012
James Deng [email protected] 2013
Kurtis Lentz [email protected] 2015
Mikhaela Martin [email protected] 2016
Nirmaan Shanker [email protected] 2016
Michael Becich [email protected] 2013+2014
Josh Hahn [email protected] 2015
Gillian Morris [email protected] 2013
Andrew Freddo [email protected] 2006
Vineel Chakradhar [email protected] 2012
Sunwoo Yim [email protected] 2016
Ethan William Plaehn [email protected] 2015
Sean McParland [email protected] 2015
Jason Kim [email protected] 2011
Dayton Ellwanger [email protected] 2013
Teja Ambati [email protected] 2016
George Zhang [email protected] 2012+2013
Meghana Pannala [email protected] 2013;2014
Daniel Shebib [email protected] 2016
Ari Evan [email protected] 2010
Ulyana Piterbarg [email protected] 2016
Miles Dai [email protected] 2016
Raphael Kim [email protected] 2015
Marcel Griffioen [email protected] 2015/2016
James Roberts [email protected] 2010
Aaron Samuel [email protected] 2016
Perry Koehler [email protected] 2011
Sam Hurd [email protected] 2014
Aiden Carley-Clopton [email protected] 2016
Kaitlynn Baker [email protected] 2016
Emily de Jong [email protected] 2014, 2015
Miles Lubin [email protected] 2006
Katherine Latimer [email protected] 2013
Trent Charles Gilbert [email protected] 2016, 2017
Jon Mundle [email protected] 2013, 2014
Jackson Luce [email protected] 2016
Isaac Bleecker [email protected] 2016, 2017
Evan Wilson [email protected] 2012
Joy Ming [email protected] 20102011
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Peter Jones [email protected] 2015
Daniel Gorulko [email protected] 2014-2015
Justin Delano [email protected] 2016+2017
Nate Stockmal [email protected] 2016-2017
Elizabeth Miller [email protected] 2011
Kyle Pellerin [email protected] 2010, 2011
Todd Warszawski [email protected] 2010
Raymond Lin [email protected] 2015, 2016
Stephanie Ger [email protected] 2010
Krishna Gopal [email protected] 2016
Sophie Greene [email protected] 2008
David Li [email protected] 2010
Joseph Fairweather [email protected] 2014
Gwen Saccocia [email protected] 2016
Daniel Kim [email protected] 2014
Amulya Bhagat [email protected] 2006
Jacob Miller [email protected] 2015
Sean Zhang [email protected] 2016
Zaid khan [email protected] 2008
Shu Zhang [email protected] 2016
Claire Sampson [email protected] 2015
Aravind Byju [email protected] 2015 2016
Laura Lin [email protected] 20152016
Scott Landes 2013
Joshua Havard [email protected] 2016
Daniel Nolte [email protected] 2014
Alex Eng [email protected] 2016
Jonathan P Gillespie [email protected] 20132014
Sunash Sharma [email protected] 2014, 2015
Steven Hee [email protected] 20122013
Natalie Parker [email protected] 2015, 2016
Jane Xu [email protected] 2015, 2016
Brian King [email protected] 2015, 2016
Michael Hauge [email protected] 2016, 2017
Catherine Shirley [email protected] 2016
Daniel Takash [email protected] 2012
Laurel Pierskalla [email protected] 2016
Kirsti Harrison [email protected] 2
Joseph Schiavone [email protected] 2010
Jaymo Kang [email protected] 2014, 2015
Nancy Cheng [email protected] 2016
Grace Shi [email protected] 2013-2014
Alex Bourzutschky [email protected] 2013, 2014
Ankit Agarwal [email protected] 2015-16, 2016-17
William Pierce [email protected] 2013, 2014
Graham Pash [email protected] 2015
Collin Stocks [email protected] 2010
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Nicole Ozdowski 2014, 2015
Ariana Chae [email protected] 2010
Emma Hough [email protected] 2015, 2016
Audrey Effenberger [email protected] 2014, 2015
Elaine Lin [email protected] 2014
Mallory Harris [email protected] 20132014
Alexandra Rose [email protected] 20112012
Simon Langowski [email protected] 2016
Matt Farejowicz [email protected] 2016
Anirudh Suresh [email protected] 2015
Robin [email protected]
Rose Huang [email protected] 2016
Sahil Abbi [email protected] 2015
Megan Hazen [email protected] 2016
George Menz [email protected] 2016
Emily Jia [email protected] 2014
Chris Kuang [email protected] 2015, 2016
Julia Wilson [email protected] 2014
Quinn Olsen [email protected] 2010
Koonj Vekaria [email protected] 2013, 2014 (semi-finalist)
Alexander Paskov [email protected] 2016 2017
Dillon Bogart [email protected] 2015*2016
Ethan Holland [email protected] 20152016
Aidan Montare [email protected] 20162017
Burton [email protected] 20152016
Eric Sun [email protected]
Timothy Wesley [email protected] 2012
Jade Fischer [email protected] 2016, 2017
John Wu [email protected] 2010
Caroline [email protected] 2010
Richard McCoy [email protected] 2013
Sarah Malick [email protected] 2012
Rachel Maguire [email protected] 2013/2014
Nicole Venusto [email protected] 2015
Caroline Duke [email protected] 2013
Marianna Ghazaryan [email protected] 2016
Sophia Carayannopoulos [email protected] 20142015
Thomas Dellaert [email protected] 2012, 2013
Dina Sinclair [email protected] 2013
Victoria Tang [email protected] 20142015
Margaret Trautner [email protected] 2016
Eric Greenwood [email protected] 2015
Matthew Silver [email protected] 2012
Tushar Chandra [email protected] 2013, 2014
Priya Kikani [email protected] 2012
Kabir Dugal [email protected] 2015-2016
Angela [email protected] 2015, 2016
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Vivian Chu [email protected] 2012-2013
Norris Guncheon [email protected] 2010
Steven Liao [email protected] 2014
Morven Chin [email protected] 2013
Zachary Liu [email protected] 2014
Michael Stefanelli [email protected] 2007, 2008
Brian J. Kutsop [email protected] 2009, 2010
Joseph Grinde [email protected] 1
Hitesh Yalamanchili [email protected] 2016
Ethan Witt [email protected] 2014
Angela Sun [email protected] 2015+2016
Arianna Krinos [email protected] 2014, 2015
Andrew Salazar [email protected] 2015
Thomas Bundy [email protected] 2011-2012
Kaitlyn Hauber [email protected] 2016
Karina Chang [email protected] 2015, 2016
Jasper Bassett [email protected] 2015
Joel Sharin [email protected] 2012, 2013
Katherine Yang [email protected] 2016
Francisco Rivera [email protected] 2014, 2015
Sonal Tyagi [email protected] 2016
Sloan Nietert [email protected] 2015
Michael Chen [email protected] 2016
David Nixon [email protected] 2015
William Boyer [email protected] 2015
Braxton Schafer [email protected] 2012
Daniel Meyer [email protected] 2016
Henry Imburgia [email protected] 2015
Erik Uhlmann [email protected] 2016, 2017
Laura Christie [email protected] 2015
Christopher Parma [email protected] 2015
Alexander Ju [email protected] 2015, 2016
Robert Karol [email protected] 2008
Rajat [email protected] 2013, 2014
Joseph Manning [email protected] 20152016
Anna Andresen [email protected] 2016
Kevin Griffin [email protected] 2012+2013
Timothy Tang [email protected] 2015, 2016
Samuel Emmerson [email protected] 2015
Richard Zhu [email protected] 2013, 2014
Trevor Caverly [email protected] 2007
Andrew Foster [email protected] 2012
Allison Paul [email protected] 2016
Zachary Graves [email protected] 2016
Chris Li [email protected] 2015
Maiya [email protected] 2016
Allen Liu [email protected] 2016
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Caroline Donovan [email protected] 2011
Nathan Furman [email protected] 2015, 2016
Anna Song [email protected] 2015, 2016
Lea Morical [email protected] 2016+2017
Sahil Singhal [email protected] 2012, 2013
Adam Ladd [email protected] 2015
Crissey Cameron [email protected] 20152016
Yang Yue [email protected] 2016, 2017
Cailan Rowland [email protected] 2016
Matt Ferreira [email protected] 2015
Josh Denney [email protected] 2016, 2017
Federico Reyes [email protected] 2015+2017
Safa Kaleem [email protected] 2012
Bohan [email protected] 2015
Tine Valencic [email protected] 2015
Eileen Phou [email protected] 2016
Hyeon-Jae Seo [email protected] 2016
Taylor Pepin [email protected] 2014
Ketan Agrawal [email protected] 2016+2017
Emily Liu [email protected] 2016, 2017
Ashish Makadia [email protected] 2010
Samuel T Goldman [email protected] 2015, 2016
Asher Wasserman [email protected] 2010-2011
Zane Kashner [email protected] 2015+2016
Pavel Panchekha [email protected] 2009
Kenneth Li [email protected] 2016
Noah Schoem [email protected] 2010
Hannah Kellis [email protected] 2014
Matthew Warshauer [email protected] 2009, 2010
Erin Seligsohn [email protected] 2010 (participant), 2011 (winner)
Mihoko G Sakanaka [email protected] 2015 and 2016
Julianna Supplee [email protected] 2013
Catherine Henckel [email protected] 2013, 2014
Enric Boix [email protected] 2013
Aaron Jacobs [email protected] 2012 and 2013
Alan Zhang [email protected] 2015
Samuel Kirschbaum [email protected] 2012, 2013
Thomas Dougherty [email protected] 2015, 2016
Supawit Chockchowwat [email protected] 2016
Alexander Coppeans [email protected] 2015 and 2016
Simon Marland [email protected] 2016
Michelle Tan
Navin Mani [email protected] 2014 - 2016
Daniel Clemens [email protected] 2015
Anthony Alberti [email protected] 2006, 2007
Connor Woods [email protected] 2015
Joe Evans [email protected] 2014, 2015
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Joseph Philleo [email protected] 2016
Kevin Kou Ge [email protected] 2016, 2017
Susan Wu [email protected] 2012
Nick Falkenberg [email protected] 2015+2016
Neil Rangwani [email protected] 2011
Eric Wynn [email protected] 2016
Thomas Beaty [email protected] 2013
Erin Clepper [email protected] 2012, 2013
Edward Parrish [email protected] 2015
Hunter Senft-Grupp [email protected] 2006
Connor Hutchinson [email protected] 2013
Steven Bower [email protected] 2013, 2014
Ginny Lee [email protected] 2012 and 2013
Kyle Lennon [email protected] 2013, 2014
Howard Li [email protected] 2015
Victoria Wu [email protected] 2016
Flora Su [email protected] 2011
Trevor Kyle [email protected] 2012
Mary Elizabeth Lee [email protected] 2013;2014
Nicole Gallegor [email protected] 2013
Mohammed Syed [email protected] 2016
Michael Yang [email protected] 2016
Raymond Cao [email protected] 2016, 2017
Haram Kim [email protected] 2016
Masudur Rahman [email protected] 2009, 2010
Jessica Gavin [email protected] 2016
Rhea Rijhsinghani [email protected] 2016
Michael Caleb You [email protected] 2014 2015
Shi-Zhuo Looi [email protected] 2012
Patrick Nicodemus [email protected] 2013
Taran Dugal [email protected] 2015, 2016
Kyle Beatty [email protected] 2008
Ryan Neff [email protected] 2008, 2009
Colby Lewis [email protected] 2015-2016
Dennis Clutter [email protected] 2015
Chris Yoon [email protected] 2015, 2016
Caitlin Westerfield [email protected] 2016
Nathan Poczekay [email protected] 2016
Lexi Willison [email protected] 2016
Adam Sattler [email protected] 2013
MARISSA LEE [email protected] 2013, 2014
Karen Shen [email protected] 2015, 2016
Stefanie Beardsworth [email protected] 2013, 2014
Paul Richter [email protected] 2014*2015
Matthew Li [email protected] 2013, 2014
Noah [email protected] 2016
Joshua Reno [email protected] 2016
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Lingke Wang [email protected] 2007
Jennifer S Du [email protected] 2015
Ally Vendetti [email protected] 2014
Kristin Hudson [email protected] 2015, 2016
Evan Burger [email protected] 2015 2016
Caleb Proffitt [email protected] 2014 2015
Jared Mehnert [email protected] 2014*2015
Julia Haigney [email protected] 2007
Claire Shugart [email protected] 1
Claudia Landowne [email protected] 2014, 2015
Robert Upton [email protected] 2014
Conor ryan [email protected] 20122013
Talia Kirschbaum [email protected] 2015
Kevin Kayser [email protected] 2015
Robert Johnson [email protected] 20082009
Hannah
Dan Berman [email protected] 2009
Syed Raziq Mohideen [email protected] 2014, 2015
Christopher Fajardo [email protected] 2006
Rohan Shirali [email protected] 2011
Angela Zhou [email protected] 20112012
Tyler Roffe [email protected] 2015
Cayden Codel [email protected] 2016, 2017
Michelle [email protected] 2015
Ruben Dicker [email protected] 2016
Sandeep Silwal [email protected] 2015
Ryan Croydon [email protected] 2015
Gary Collins [email protected] 2012-2013
David Lin [email protected] 2014, 2015
Sophia Liu [email protected]
Janine Norbut [email protected] 2010, 2011
Eric chen [email protected] 2016
John L Theurer [email protected] 2015-2016
Harshil Chahal [email protected] 2012, 2013
Michael Pansera [email protected] 20142015
Andrew Kwon [email protected] 2014
Sarah Alford [email protected] 2016
Abigail Baker [email protected] 2014
Andrew Das Sarma [email protected] 2010, 2011
Angela Zhang [email protected] 2015, 2016
Thomas Kawchak [email protected] 2014
14.32% 54
1.86% 7
66.58% 251
8.75% 33
0.27% 1
0.53% 2
0.53% 2
7.16% 27
0.00% 0
Q2 What are you currently doing to meetyour career and/or educational goals?
Answered: 377 Skipped: 0
Total 377
employed in afield relate...
employed in afield not...
attendingcollege/univ...
attendingcollege/univ...
graduated fromcollege/univ...
graduated fromcollege/univ...
graduated fromhigh school,...
attending highschool
I graduatedhigh school ...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
employed in a field related to my college major/course of study
employed in a field not related to my college major/course of study
attending college/university (undergraduate)
attending college/university (graduate)
graduated from college/university (undergraduate), not employed
graduated from college/university (graduate), not employed
graduated from high school, but not enrolled at college/university
attending high school
I graduated high school but am not currently enrolled at a college/university
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Q3 Please give the full name of the university at which you are enrolled. College/University responses:
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brigham Young University
Brown University (3)
California Institute of Technology (6)
Carleton College (2)
Carnegie Mellon University (5)
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Clemson University
Colby College
Colorado School of Mines
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York (2)
Cornell
Cornell Univeristy (15)
Cornell University (College of Arts and Sciences) (2)
Dartmouth College (4)
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
DeSales University
Drexel University
Duke University (5)
George Washington University
Georgetown University (2)
Georgetown University Law Center
Georgia Institute of Technology (7)
Grove City College
Harvard College (2)
Harvard University (12)
Harvey Mudd College (4)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Indiana University at Bloomington
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins University (3)
Lehigh University
Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University)
Lewis Katz school of Medicine at temple university
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (17)
McGill University (2)
McGill University
Minerva Schools at KGI
MIT Sloan School of Management
Mount Holyoke College
New York University School of Medicine
North Carolina State University (2)
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Northeastern University (8)
Oberlin College (Formerly University of Chicago)
Ouachita Baptist University
Pennsylvania State University (3)
Pepperdine University
Pomona College
Princeton University (10)
Purdue University (5)
Purdue University - West Lafayette (2)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2)
Rice University (3)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Saint Louis University
Stanford University (6)
Swarthmore College
Taylor University
Temple University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University - College Station
Texas Tech University
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
The Juilliard School
The Ohio State University (3)
The University of Chicago
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The University of Oklahoma
The University of Texas at Austin (2)
Trine University
Tufts University
Tulane University
University at Albany, SUNY
University of California - Berkeley (9)
University of California at Los Angeles (2)
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Chicago (2)
University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Harris School of Public Policy
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
University of Delaware (2)
University of Georgia
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2)
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Massachusetts Lowell
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University of Miami
University of Michigan (2)
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (3)
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2)
University of Nevada Reno
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (3)
University of Notre Dame (3)
University of Pennsylvania (7)
University of Rochester (2)
University of South Carolina - Columbia
University of Southern California (3)
University of St. Thomas
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Texas at San Antonio
University of Virginia (7)
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin - Madison (5)
UTSW
Vanderbilt University (3)
Villanova University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) (2)
Washington and Lee University (2)
Williams College (2)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2)
Yale University (5)
Yerevan State University
5.00% 14
36.79% 103
12.86% 36
31.79% 89
3.21% 9
11.43% 32
6.43% 18
Q4 If you are currently enrolled at acollege/university, what is your
major/minor/subject of study? (Check allthat apply).
Answered: 280 Skipped: 97
business
computerscience
economics
engineering
finance
life sciences
mathematicalsciences
mathematics
physics
politicalscience
Other (pleasespecify)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
business
computer science
economics
engineering
finance
life sciences
mathematical sciences
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27.50% 77
8.93% 25
4.29% 12
27.86% 78
Total Respondents: 280
mathematics
physics
political science
Other (please specify)
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Q5 If you are currently employed, please list the name of your employer and industry below:
Employer: Industry: Job title:
AXA Insurance Senior Manager - Actuarial
US Army National Defense Platoon Leader
Bain Capital Investing Analyst
Peace Corps International Development Community and Youth Volunteer
Dropbox Software Software engineer
Credit Suisse Financial Services Investment Banking Analyst
Henry Ford Hospital Healthcare PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Resident
LUNAR product design & development Mechanical Engineer
Google Inc Internet Software Engineer
a startup Aerospace Mechanical Engineer
Google Software Software Engineer
Massachusetts General Hospital Medicine Clinical Research Coordinator
EPA government Geologist/Chemist
MITRE Government Senior Engineer
NewsCred Technology Software Engineer
RBC Capital Markets Sales & Trading Analyst
Reason Foundation Think Tank Policy Analyst
Palantir Technologies Software Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Oscar Health Insurance Technically Software Engineer
Silman construction structural engineer
McMaster-Carr Industrial Supply Software Developer
Sift Science Tech Business Operations Associate / Project Lead
Amazon Software Software engineer
Blackbaud Software Software Engineer I
Health Data Management Solutions Health care analytics Business Analyst
Bridgewater Associates Technology Technology Associate
Freelance Film Director/Editor
Prudential Financial Financial Services Manager, Actuarial
Epic Systems Corporation Electronic Medical Records Software Developer
Leidos Software Software Engineer
Epic Systems Healthcare IT Systems Engineer
Skyfront Inc. Aerospace Engineering VP of Engineering
NBT Solutions Software Software Developer
Facebook Tech Data Scientist
Caterpillar Inc. Manufacturing Senior Associate Engineer - Product Development
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Translational Research Research Technician
Microsoft Computer Science Software Engineer
Jiaherb Inc Nutrition Sales Assistant
Schlumberger Oilfield Mechanical Engineer
McKinsey & company Management consulting Business analyst
Athenahealth, Inc Software Senior Member of Technical Staff (Sr. Software Developer)
TrustRadius Software Full Stack Engineer
Medshape Medical Device Engineer
Ethos Insurance and Ovid Insurance Insurance, Technology Co-Founder, CTO
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Federal Government Law Lawyer
MTA Metro-North Railroad Public Infrastructure Network Engineer
BAE Systems, Inc Defense Hardware Engineer I
Apple, Inc. Consumer electronics Software engineer
Boston Children's Hospital Healthcare Statistical Analyst
Evercore Investment Banking Investment Banking Analyst
Citadel LLC Financial Services Portfolio Manager
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Q6 If you have graduated from college, where did you get your degree and what was your major? (Skip of not applicable)
School: Major: Highest degree completed:
Boston University Neuroscience Bachelors
Boston University Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Masters
Brown University (undergrad) Applied Math & Economics / Mechanical Engineering MBA @ Stanford Graduate School of Business
Carleton College Chemistry BA
Carleton College Mathematics/Statistics Bachelor
Case Western Reserve University Biomedical Engineering Bachelor of Science
Clemson Mathematical Science and Computer Science Bachelor's Degree
Columbia Mathematics-Statistics Bachelor of Arts
Cooper Union Electrical Engineering Master's
Cooper Union Electrical Engineering Bachelor's of Engineering
Cornell University Physics Bachelor of Arts
Cornell University Civil Engineering, Classical Civilization BS, BA
Cornell University Computer Science Master of Engineering
Cornell University Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering BS
Dartmouth Engineering Bachelor of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering Master of Science
Georgia Institute of Technology MSE BS
Harvard Computer Science Bachelors
Harvard Applied Math Bachelor
Harvard College Statistics BA
Harvard University Computer Science Bachelor's Degree
Harvard University Physics Master's (Applied Math, 2015)
Johns Hopkins Political Science and Writing Seminars BA
Johns Hopkins University Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Political Science BS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering and Computer Science B.S.
McGill University Biochemistry Masters
McGill university Electrical engineering Bachelors
MIT CS, Math BS
MIT Mechanical Engineering bachelor's
New York University Film and Television BFA
Northwestern University Computer Science B.S.
NYU Economics BA
Princeton Operations research and financial engineering BSE
Princeton University Operations Research and Financial Engineering Bachelor's of Science and Engineering
Ripon College Computer Science BA
Rochester Institute of Technology Computer Science Bachelor's Degree
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Computer Science, Math and Computer Engineering BS
Stanford University Computer Science B.S.
Stanford University Aeronautics and Astronautics MS
Stanford University Mechanical Engineering B.S
Stanford university Electrical engineering Masters
Stony Brook University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bachelor's
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The College of New Jersey Mathematics Bachelor's (B.A.)
The George Washington University International Affairs J.D., also from GW
The United States Military Academy Political Science Bachelors of Science and Engineering
The University of Chicago Mathematics Bachelor of Science
University of Minnesota Finance Bachelor of Science in Business
University of Rhode Island Doctor of Pharmacy Doctorate
University of Rochester Mathematics, Physics BS
University of Virginia Computer Science Bachelors
Washington University in St. Louis Mathematics Masters in Statistics
Westminster Choir College Music Masters
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Chemical Engineering BS
Yale, Stanford Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering BS, MS
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Q7 Please share with us any of your noteworthy academic or career achievements or projects to date.
Accomplishments
By graduation, I'll have presented urban planning research at five conferences, published a journal article, composed and produced two new operas, and graduated in the top 1% of my class.
National Football Foundation National Scholar Athlete Award
Deans List FA15, WN16, James B. Angell Scholar
Dean's Honor List
Currently writing up paper to be submitted for publication on the interactions of corneal nerves and non-myelinating Schwann cells (glia) to study the normal interactions and those as a part of wound healing. Received the Barbara J. Burger Endowed Scholarship in the Sciences.
Will do summer research at the Fields Institute. Worked on a statistical study in summer 2016. On Dean's Honour List. Received 3 scholarships from McGill for academic performance.
Algorithm development for the embedded controls for a marine sampling research instrument.
graduated summa cum laude
Internship in economic consulting, researched with a professor of finance, admitted into UVA's highest academic honor society, admitted into the Honors program for economics
During university, I interned for the Scottish Parliament. From that internship, I was hired as a paid research aid and remained in Scotland for a year, where I conducted qualitative research about cultural funding in the local authorities. After university, I went to Banda Aceh Indonesia where I worked as a co-Director at an NGO for at risk and low income children. Following that position, I went to Nairobi Kenya where I freelanced and consulted with a social enterprise startup that conducted insights analysis with marginalized peoples. In the Peace Corps, I work with an NGO supporting human capacity building in Dilijan Armenia. I also consult with a womens social enterprise in constructing a business plan.
Co-author on a paper published in Physical Review Letters National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program Honorable Mention
Traveled to Nicaragua with my Project Team (Engineers for a Sustainable World) to work on Solar Panel design there over spring break. Dean's List Working on research over the summer at Cornell University on optimizing solar panel output.
several design patents, several products launched
I am doing some research in machine learning, on the restricted isometry property! I don't know how noteworthy getting to do research is, but I'm pretty excited.
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From high school: Big Data internship at Guestmetrics Research internship in Farrauto lab at Columbia University Research program at UConn Independent algae biofuel research German honors society Captain of FTC robotics team Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair, Senior award in environmental engineering Junior Sciences and Humanities symposium, poster presenter Biology honors award Trinity College book award From college: Undergraduate researcher in the Hanrath group
Formula SAE Subteam Lead
Honorable mention in Mathematical Contest in Modeling Winthrop University REU, presented at Joint Math Meetings Mildred L. Sanderson Prize for Excellence in Mathematics during the First Year Top quartile in Putnam Exam Moody's Analytics internship Gina Jacobsen Prize for achieving the highest level of mathematical maturity and self-reliance in the sophomore year Working for Art of Problem Solving Nominated for Goldwater (I find out in 3 days) James Madison University REU and Epsilon camp counselor upcoming
Washington University in St. Louis Graduated Magna Cum Laude in Chemistry
Fourth in Environmental Engineering, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2016
iGEM Gold Medalist, All-American 800m Runner, Bioinformatic Data Analysis of Genitourinary Diseases
Dean's List Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016; Presidential Scholar
Dean's List and Semester Honors (Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016) Undergraduate Research Assistant at Zucrow Laboratories
Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar, nominated to MAA membership by the Bowdoin math department
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
ACM ICPC World Finalist 2016
ABinBEV Hackathon 1st place VandyHacks winners
Dean's List (Fall 2016)
Attempted (failed) to start a company. Self-teaching computer science and looking to try again
In 2015 and 2016, I was invited to attend the American Chemical Society Summer Study Camp for the top 20 students in the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad.
Ghissi reunion project was a project that involved exhibition of 16th century paintings in an art museum. I helped remodel the paintings by digitally rejuvenating it to be part of the exhibition.
Summer 2017 I will be working on developing precision time-of-flight detectors for the High-Luminosity LHC with a lab here at Caltech.
graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a degree in animal science 2016
I have a 4.0 GPA, made the deans list, and am currently doing undergrad research with a mentoring chemistry professor.
Shapiro Prize for Academic Achievement, 2016
Published scientific article in Journal of Electrochemical Society on modelling MEMS devices
Presidents scholar
Eagle Scout, and became coach of the League of Legends team at Indiana University and received $2500 for it.
Participating in NASA funded physical chemistry research related to the efficient computer modelling of poly-aromatic cyclic hydrocarbons and quartic force fields.
Graduated cum laude Neuroscience Honor's Society
NSF GRFP awardee (2015)
In high school, I graduated 6th/185 in my class. Last semester of college, my first semester, I attained a 4.0 GPA. I am a part of the Honors Program at Villanova University.
AIME Qualifier Science Olympiad National Medalist Cornell Tanner Dean's Scholar
Doing research with professor, on robotics project team, summer internship
Intersystems Internship Schlumberger Manufacturing Engineering Internship
Recently accepted a job with Edgeworth Economics, an economic consulting firm.
Winner of PVSA Gold Award from 2012-2016 Nationally certified EMT
Dean's List President of Engineers for a Sustainable World
Co-founded a start-up that was accepted into the the top enterprise start-up accelerator - Alchemist Accelerator.
Yale Ruth Jeffries Scholar, Yale Andrew Heiskell Scholar, National Merit Scholar, State AP Scholar (New York) (20 AP’s)
Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Internship at CERN freshman summer
2015-16 Harvard College Scholar. 2016 Harvard College PRISE Fellow. Research on remyelination after injury in Z. He Lab at Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School.
Built votemate.us, a website for checking voter registration. Interning at Yelp this summer. Graduating from MIT in 3 years.
Goldwater Scholarship Camus Nominee, Recipient of the Foundation Fellowship (UGA's premier undergraduate scholarship), Mu Alpha Theta undergraduate scholarship, high school valedictorian, STAR Student, National Merit Scholar
Summa Cum Laude Northeastern University 2016
Internship work at various companies. For example, a computational model to understand click conversion rate on various booking models on TripAdvisor's website. Also, research at Rice University to model the Earth's magnetosphere computationally and understand the source of auroral arc formation.
siemens regional finalist intel isef 2nd place in systems software
Phi Beta Kappa member, Pi Mu Epsilon member, Phi Eta Sigma member, George A. Mahan Award for Creative Writing recipient, W&L Writing Center tutor, Alpha Phi Omega (service fraternity) member
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Working on a startup for organ transplant patients
Taught course in Stanford CS Department: CS95 Functional Programming in Clojure. Started company Motif Technologies, Inc https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/at-pear-demo-day-13-companies-to-watch/
Previously consultant at McKinsey & Company
Putnam top 500 scorer, Barry Goldwater Fellow, Watson Fellow
I have published two math papers.
Undergraduate research in Dr. Odorico's lab in the Department of Surgery at UW-Madison; L.R. Ingersoll prize in physics; Thomas Edward Gensler Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship; Dean's Honors List: Fall 2014, Spring/Fall 2015, and Spring/Fall 2016
Accepted internship position at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. for Summer 2017 employment
I am graduating from Carleton College in June 2017 with a GPA of 3.79. I interned at UnitedHealth Group the summer of 2015 and Health Data Management Solutions in 2016. I was offered a full-time position at Health Data Management Solutions after my internship.
I have been awarded 3 Grant Projects by the US Department of State, 2 of which concern 3D Technology promotion and raising the awareness about 3D pens and printers.
I have participated in the Start Hackathon at St. Gallens, I have also gotten an internship as a data scientist at State Farm, I also work on UIs for medical devicies
Deans High Honors Accepted for a Software Engineering Co-op with Philips
3D Nanofiber Matrices for In Vitro Lung Model Development - Project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Academic: Cum Laude Career: Led upgrades of critical pieces of software for company
Dean's List and Academic Honor Roll, every quarter; member of Tau Beta Pi; working as software engineering intern at Qualtrics for summer 2017
MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
-Dean's list with distinction (Fall 2016)
some successful video games, high gpa, TBP eligible, couple of solid internships
Internship with Rolls Royce in Indianapolis
Summer Internship 2017 with Microsoft
Dean's list 3 Consecutive Semesters
Graduated college in three years. 2 internships at Facebook, starting work there in July
Published "Modeling the Syrian Refugee Crysis with Agents and Systems" in The UMAP Journal. Interned with Office of Statistics and Evaluation at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Currently in an Undergraduate Research Opportunity in the Senseable City Lab at MIT.
Research assistant to the Tal-Gan research group
U.S. Presidential Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholar, National Merit Scholar
Participated in Student International Business Council (SIBC) at Notre Dame and worked on major data analysis project and presented result to SAP (software company)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Dean's List every semester so far.
Researched the utility of replacing spectrometers with smartphones in secondary education (using a lot of what I learned about applied mathematics and quantification during the preparation for Moody's).
Upcoming: Starting as part-time machine learning developer for Virtualitics, a VR/AI startup working on better visualizations of high-dimensional data. This summer I'll be a R&D intern at Rigetti, working on quantum computing. This year: currently studying abroad at Cambridge University this term. Presented my research on emergent phenomena in quantum condensed matter at the Royal Society in London, preparing a paper for publication. Developed the first Monte Carlo Tree Search AI for the game of quantum chess. Last year: improved DeepMind deep Q-learning framework for better performance on Atari games using deep reinforcement learning.
I was hired by Jane Street Capital as a summer intern!
I'm taking Math 55? I don't know if that's noteworthy or not though.
I recently obtained my thesis-based Masters degree in Biochemistry, which lead to a publication in Oncotarget.
Dean's List, Engineering-wide Graduation Award in Mathematics
Multiple Scholarships 3rd Best Freshmen Exhibit at EOH Illini Solar Car
Harvard Medical School Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases Summer Scholar Westwind Scholarship Poster: Kirschbaum T, Baral P, Chiu IM. “Role of nociceptor neurons in acute bacterial lung inflammation.” Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 11 Aug 2016.
Inducted into the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Received the J.R. Phillips Award for Experimental Engineering Works in the Harvey Mudd College Transdermal Transport Laboratory
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Will be working at the Mayo Clinic in the Nephrology Department this summer Serving as the Associated Students of Harvey Mudd College Senate Chair for the 2017-18 academic year
Autonomous Vehicle, Underwater Robot
I love my job and my job is to apply data.
NSF GRFP Adobe Fellowship Wissner-Slivka Fellowship ARCS Scholar Fellowship PLDI 2015 Distinguished Paper
Honors BA Mathematics 2015, University of Chicago
Undergraduate Research Fellow, Sophomore Scholar Award, Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society, Dean's List
Built a remote temperature logger Built a computer monitoring system that instantly responds to errors
Deans list
Started application company
Performing regularly in NJ
National Merit Finalist
I was accepted into the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program at Penn, an academic program based around honors seminars and research
2016, 2017 Quora Top Writer - 2,650,000 views on 700 answers; published in Newsweek and Huffington Post
Designed and planned a fire breathing dragon sculpture project. Coded and built a robot.
Graduated phi beta kappa, summa cum laude, and won a thesis prize for best senior thesis in finance
Right now I am working on a project with another mechanical engineering student to design an autonomous vehicle interior concept. I am a senior and I will continue this work for my graduate thesis.
Grand Prize winner of HackMIT, Dean's scholarship recipient, College Park Scholars Program alumnus
Duke has an annual health innovation challenge. Last year I participated, presented a social media based project to track the spread of the Zika virus. My team and I won the competition and traveled to Washington DC to present the idea to USAID, including officials from the D.O.D, foreign governments, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of NIAID
Undergraduate achievements: completed honors thesis on biodiesel emissions modeling (scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/93/), published a related article on biodiesel emissions modeling (http://trrjournalonline.trb.org/doi/abs/10.3141/2570-10)
Work on the MINERvA helium detector, Finalist for the NASA Micro-g NExT challenge, and a few other things
2 internships followed by a full-time offer for a Leadership Development Program upon graduation in May as well as multiple awards for recognition in leadership positions
Research project with Dr. Sarah Birken in the department of Health Policy and Management
Completion of Georgetown Oppurtunities for Leadership and Development's (GOLD) Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) Dean's List for Fall 2016
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
HackCMU best data hack YHacks Fannie Mae API prize Dean's List
Honours thesis under eminent professor on the faculty of the UC Berkeley mathematics department. WIll be attending a PhD program in pure mathematics in the fall (still deciding which program to go to).
Lead electrical engineer on the Penn State Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition team. Designed and built the converter and control system for a small wind turbine.
Sold a few patents to major automobile manufacturers Winner of two startup competitions, at Harvard and Devpost MD/PhD student --> Neuroscience research and computational bioinformatics Worked at the NIH on making new human reference genomes Graduated with high honors in BME from Harvard (B.S. degree)
Got an internship with the Navy, modeling complex, nonlinear systems using Python as a freshman, beating out a PhD student for the slot. Member of Sigma Gamma Tau (top ~20% of my class), invitee of Tau Beta Pi (top 12.5% of my class) 3.91 GPA at Georgia Tech, part of the aerospace honors program (automatic acceptance into AE grad program) Have conducted research all four semesters I've been at college so far. Currently working on modeling directed energy weapons and simulating space situational awareness for satellites. Team I worked on a freshman for research won the RoboBoat autonomous robotic boat competition.
Internship over summer 2017 with West Chester PA Moody's analytics
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Collegiate Consulting Group (CCG), Project Manager, Management Consultant September 2016-present • Fall 2016: Spearheaded online customer acquisition for car rental startup Classics&Exotics with team on a semester project • Spring 2017: Followed up as Classics&Exotics intern under CEO to improve social media practices and leverage • Spring 2017: Project manager to lead Distinctive Capabilities consulting framework on behalf of entire Brown community Global Momenta, New Global Agenda Fellow December 2016-present • Research fellow and editor for 2017 edition of New Global Agenda purposed to tackle societal issues on an international level • Spearheading Resource Management section and providing assistance to authors specifically on Energy Innovation and Agriculture Day One, Finance Manager, Marketer December 2016-present • Independent passion project about the transition from alcoholism and substance abuse to sobriety • Handling project budget, advertising and marketing for auditions and exposure, social media platforms Brown Student Advisory Council, Digital Experience Consultant December 2016-present • Collaborating with professionals as an internal consultant to improve Brown online experience by facilitating utility of digital platforms WBRU 95.5 Radio Station, Business Intern November 2016-present • Learned about radio station business practices and models and shadowed many mentors to learn about finance The Critical Review, Writer, Editor Data Analyst September 2016-present • Writing and editing course reviews on Brown online database for students and attending workshops throughout semester • Subgroup collecting and analyzing data from past 30 years to improve future practices IvyCORPS, Operations Team November 2016-present • Philanthropic branch of Ivy Council fostering community service, specifically handling homelessness- working with legality aspects
Co-author on paper published in Analytical methods, presented biosensor research at NEBEC 2014, Current undergraduate researcher in the laboratory of Amy Maddox
Phi Beta Kappa President's List Fall 15, Spr 16, Fall 16,
MBA @ Stanford Started two insurance technology companies (Ethos & Ovid)
Regional ICPC first place team at site, internship at Facebook
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Microprocessors projects and mobile apps
Merck Intern
Cornell Mars Rover Project Team
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Fellowship Research Program (2016, 2017)
Editor of university's undergraduate history journal
Graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with my Bachelors in Mathematics in 3 years, and spent the following year completing an accelerated Masters in Statistics from WashU as well. Overall, received a Masters in the typical time it would take to get a Bachelors degree. Currently working on a project to transform and compile healthcare data from a number of formats and types into a unified structure, thereby enhancing analytical capabilities across the industry. Also planning to work towards a PhD in Statistics or Biostatistics on the side starting next fall.
Awarded NDSEG fellowship from Department of Defense (3 years of graduate funding) Ahmet S. Cakmak Prize for Undergraduate Thesis Work from Princeton University Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Princeton Operations Research & Financial Engineering
John Harvard Scholar & Detur Book Prize winner at Harvard. Graduated w/ A.B. (undergrad) & S.M. (master's) degrees in physics and applied math at age 20. Promoted to be a long/short credit Portfolio Manager after 1.5 yrs at Citadel.
Dean's List multiple semesters, Research Scholarship Awarded
I haven't gotten any internship offers yet :( but I was offered an interview for Facebook University for Engineering, which really feels like an accomplishment for me! The interview is tomorrow, hope it goes well
I worked on a class research project where we made a theoretical research project focused on the synthesis of nuclear waste into nanoparticles.
Top 3 team at the NBA Hackathon; Various research projects such as modeling the migration of Syrian refugees in Europe and modeling the flow of traffic at a toll booth.
Senior Thesis - understanding the effects of depository coverage similarity on returns from commerical bank mergers Jazba Entertainment - founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that organizes an intercollegiate Bollywood fusion dance competition each year. This organization has raised over $13,000 for impoverished women in India.
3.45% 11
96.55% 308
Q8 Did your participation in M3 connect youwith an internship or job at Moody's?
Answered: 319 Skipped: 58
Total 319
yes
no
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
yes
no
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2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Q9 Please describe your experience working at Moody's.
Working at Moody's:
Fun, worked on analytics side in structured credit
Moody's provided a great summer experience where I could learn a lot and build experience for my future career search.
I worked in the content department in the data science division creating a semantic graph database. While this was a wonderful experience, it made me decide to go into academia.
Great people/culture, but my department (tax) didn't have nearly enough work for me
Somewhat slow--felt frankly underutilized. After good reviews, Moody's initiated the discussion of a second internship but never followed up.
I declined my offer to work at Microsoft, although the team seemed like a great fit to me.
Great experience as an intern after my freshman year
I really enjoyed working with Vladimir Agajanov, a data scientist. I wrote an interactive web-app tool that allowed a user to explore the data passing through Moody's internal servers every day. I learned about recent advances in machine learning and how they were being applied to analyze capital markets.
Will work in future -NA
Software Engineering Intern
18.49% 54
23.29% 68
58.22% 170
Q10 Did competing in the M3 Challengeinfluence you to pursue a major in
mathematics or a math-oriented field?Answered: 292 Skipped: 85
Total 292
yes
no
I alreadyplanned to...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
yes
no
I already planned to pursue a major in a math-related field.
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19.18% 56
33.90% 99
46.92% 137
Q11 Did competing in the M3 Challengeinfluence you to pursue a career in
mathematics or a math-oriented field?Answered: 292 Skipped: 85
Total 292
yes
no
I alreadyplanned to...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
yes
no
I already planned to pursue a career in a math-related field.
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95.60% 304
4.40% 14
Q12 Have you or your team mates appliedthe solution your team created since the
competition?Answered: 318 Skipped: 59
Total 318
no
yes. Pleaseexplain:
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
no
yes. Please explain:
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48.74% 155
0.31% 1
50.63% 161
0.31% 1
Q13 How has your opinion about theimportance of math and its relevance to
real-world problems changed as a result ofparticipating in the M3 Challenge?
Answered: 318 Skipped: 59
Total 318
I think mathis more...
I think mathis less...
no change ofopinion - I...
not sure
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
I think math is more important and/or relevant
I think math is less important and/or relevant
no change of opinion - I have always found math important and/or relevant
not sure
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91.85% 293
0.00% 0
5.02% 16
3.13% 10
Q14 What is your opinion about theimportance of including the study of math
modeling or applied math in K-12 curricula?Answered: 319 Skipped: 58
Total 319
there shouldbe more math...
there shouldbe less math...
the level ofmodeling/app...
not sure
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Answer Choices Responses
there should be more math modeling/applied math
there should be less math modeling/applied math
the level of modeling/applied math taught in K-12 is adequate
not sure
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Q15) Please share any comments about your experience with Moody’s Mega Math Challenge.
I have a compliment:
A memorable part of my high school experience!
Allowing participants to select their own start time was not particularly useful for my team but seems like a convenient option
Always trying to improve!
Amazing experience; very well-organized; thoughtful judges and great organizers.
Finally a fun math competiton that trains real-world math.
Great
Great 24 teamwork adventure! Perfect balance of boundaries and freedom
I absolutely loved this experience and would not have changed it in any way!
I am very glad to have participated in the M3 challenge back in High School and thank you for the opportunities it gave me.
I appreciate how the winning projects from previous years are made public for us to practice with.
I appreciate how there are always a variety of approaches students can take, when they attempt to solve the problem.
I appreciated that the modeling challenge was of a problem that was relevant yet could be modelled to a first order within the alotted time
I believe that the competition really showed my team and I the extent that math could be used outside of a classroom. A lot of what we learned in school could be applied to life situations more than we could have realized.
I enjoyed the challenge - it made me a lot more confident in my math abilities and was an excellent asset for college.
I enjoyed the topic about the shared cars. I think it is good to use relevant problems so that data can easily be accessed.
I enjoyed the treatment we received at Finals in NYC.
I feel like Moody's helped me get my first internship. It definitely helped steer me in the direction of modeling. It was a great experience and winning a scholarship was a great way to finish my senior year. I recommend it to any high schooler I know who likes STEM.
I found the trip to New York extremely enjoyable and the whole experience was absolutely incredible. Moody's was very welcoming and gracious towards us.
I had a great experience in the competition, and I hope SIAM makes it so future generations have a great experience as well
I had a great time participating in the challenge in high school!
I liked the provided data this year - it decreased time my team spent looking for it
I love the program! Great opportunity for scholarship, a ton of fun, great speakers, and a lot of learning.
I loved getting to see our paper published.
I loved it! I had a lot of pure math background but knew very little about math modeling. I'm so glad that I was able to see the wide applications math can have in the real world!
I loved the experience--the rush, the frustration, the stress as the seconds tick by.. and even the anticipation for the results. Would do it again in a heartbeat!
I loved the way we were treated in New York. Really thought it was an awesome experience.
I loved this competition because it showed me that math/applied math and practical skills are valued somewhere. Often, in school, it feels like applied math skills and problem-solving are not valued. It was so nice to learn that what I love to do is actually valued.
I really commend how you follow-up with participants.
I really enjoyed it and found it challenging and a great team-building event.
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I really enjoyed my experience with Moody's Mega Math Challenge and it largely inspired me to pursue the applied math major that I am now enrolled in.
I really enjoyed the competition.
I still remember fondly the experience. It did emphasize the importance of incorporating applied mathematics to solve real world problems, a lesson I apply in my work with economics and business now.
I think M3 challenge was a great way to see how math could be applied to the real world. It was one of my most memorable high school experiences.
I think this competition is a very useful way to educate students on the importance of data and data-driven solutions.
Interesting problem
It was a great experience that gave me a taste of how math can be used to solve real-world problems outside the classroom
It was a wonderful learning experience that I simply could not have gotten from a classroom.
It was an excellent opportunity quite like anything else that allowed me and my peers to dip our toes in the waters of applied math.
It was fun and new experience.
It was one of the most valuable experiences from my high school years.
It's a great competition. Very well done.
It's an incredibly fun competition that introduced me to the world of math modeling.
I've always been good at and interested in math. Moody's was a challenge that came from seemingly out of nowhere and myself and my friends didn't know how to prepare for, so the fact that we even got an honorable mention was amazing to us. I've done a few hackathon's since then but in a sense, this was my first hackathon. I really thank you guys for putting it together; it gave me a chance to work on a team with some people I've never worked with before and the challenge itself gave me a sense of confidence, that I can walk into a situation I've never been before where I'm not expected to win and then hold my own anyway.
M3 allowed me to work in a group setting on an actual problem in society, which has prepared me greatly for college classes.
M3 opened my eyes to the world of applied math and mathematical modeling. I greatly appreciate the perspective it has given me.
Moody's allowed me to be evaluated in applied mathematics by a completely unbiased eye, and it was incredibly validating. I find that, even in a university setting, a person's background and behavior significantly effects whether or not they can be successful in the conventional academic setting, but moody's eliminated those basis creating an intersectional math competition that valued not only mathematics, but creativity, teamwork, and life skills.
Moody's Mega Math Challenge was great. I hope to see it continue.
Moodys was a very rewarding experience and made me realize the importance of mathematical modeling.
Moody's was an excellent experience for me which oriented me to modeling and was my first real experience with coding/computer science my junior year, which is now my major.
Really helped bring math modeling as a field more clearly to focus.
Really inspiring experience. Life-influencing.
Really loved it!!
Thank you so much for the scholarship! It helped pay for one of my books in my first semester of school.
Thanks for allowing students to gain modeling and applied math experience! Coming from a smaller town, this opened my eyes to how people were applying math to solve real world problems.
Thanks for showing me the usefulness of math models in the real world.
Thanks for the interesting problems - I had fun during those 14 hours even though it was stressful at the time. The experience of going from research to writeup in a short span of time is something I wish I could do more often.
The challenge introduced me to Moody's which became a top choice for my career after college.
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
The challenge was more out-of-the-box than most math competitions I participated in. It was also more real-world applicable, in that there was no clearcut method to approach the problem, nor obvious or correct solution. It encouraged teamwork and patience, as well as creativity and grit.
The experience was really great and I still think fondly about the enthusiasm and creativity we had at that time. I think it's a great opportunity to be creative and showcase the power of applied math.
The M^3 challenge gave me greater confidence in my abilities.
The M^3 challenge was a great way to get students to think about how quantitative analysis can be used to assess real-world problems and seek solutions.
The M3 Challenge really helped me understand models in academic papers/fields that I read later and how they were derived.
The M3 challenge was actually one of the most enjoyable applied math experiences I've had, so far it remains as a uniquely engaging event
The M3 may have been the first time I really thought about mathematical modeling as something that can apply generally to the world.
the problem was engaging and the competition set up was excellent! I competed on a team with some of my closest friends and we really enjoyed the experiment.
The problem was multifaceted and challenging so as to allow students a wide range of creative approaches.
The problems are approachable and interesting even for teams like mine that have little math modeling experience.
The problems are real life problems which helps the participants to finally understand how math can be implied in real life nor just x-s and y-s.
The problems were incredibly well thought out.
The program prepared me for doing real research in the work setting. The concept of facing a seemingly impossible problem when your boss doesn't have the solution directly applies in my research lab every day.
The question and the event itself were a great deal of fun
The questions always seem very well thought and I enjoy how they apply to real world problems that professionals are looking at
The trip and experience was awesome!
This competition was a wonderful experience for me. From the planning and execution of the question portion through the accommodations in the finals, this competition was extremely well run.
This is a fantastic program.
This was an incredible experience and program for learning to work in teams as well as intense research and applied math
This was the first "policy relevant" challenge I was able to participate in and see how modeling could be used on a base level, even though most of my work now requires slightly less modeling and more inference. The experience was very helpful in directing me down the path that I have now chosen.
This year, having data available to us already was very helpful. Last year, finding data on our own took significant time
Thought the whole thing was pretty fantastic.
Very well structured, and very interesting problems
Well organized!!! Nice topics ever year
I have a suggestion:
Advertise more. Do more to reach other schools.
Can't think of any
Contestants should be allowed to pause their time for 1 hour for food.
Create a Challenge at the collegiate level!
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Do subjects that are interesting for young people. If you can show them how a field or topic they are interested in can be modeled through math, that might open their eyes to the rest of the world.
Expand to more states!
Extend the challenge to the collegiate level
Give full data, some data was incomplete
Have more events (maybe smaller ones) throughout the year.
I know math is the primary focus. These days I work with machine learning models (which admittedly are mathematical). There's a recent "trend" of computational (and not necessarily complex) models for better data processing and visualization. I haven't kept up with the M3 challenge, but I hope it encourages the use of modern computational power. Not just excel, but matlab/R. Not just numerical data, but also text, audio, visual [and of course resources that let them interpret numerical features from this media].
I suggest to make this challenge an internation competition.
I think a guide on data-cleaning should be provided. The biggest problem my team faced was not knowing how to clean the data in order to get meaningful results. Looking back at it, I wish there was a guide and/or tips on how to do that.
I think it would be great to be able to see more examples of solution papers, not just those of the finalists.
I think that new teams, especially from communities/schools with little introduction of advanced modeling and computational techniques, would really benefit from seeing a sample paper with suggestions in each section for different types of answers and information, written by judges/other administrators for past competitions' prompts.
I would appreciate more resources that participants could use to learn specific math modeling skills and techniques.
I'm sure this is already something you do, but ask the kids problems that are relevant and trying to be addressed. It's likely that a usable solution or starting point is generated from the challenge.
It would be fun to do a small version of this competition for elementary school kids
It would be great to facilitate longer-term opportunities for social good and mathematical modeling, for example. I understand INFORMS has a chapter and maybe SIAM does as well; but partnerships with nonprofits to develop "mega math challenges" which can be worked on over a longer term, or incorporated as project ideas, could be a great way to showcase the power of applied math at a more sustained level.
It would be neat if you partnered with a few other employers to help past winners find internships outside of Moody's itself (eg. engineering).
keep projects nationally-oriented (e.g. the gerrymandering or high-speed rail project) as opposed to smaller-area (Lake Mead)
Last year's and this year's challenge bear many similarities in structure. Perhaps the challenges could be less predictable year-to-year.
Make it so that more teams can participate from a school, advertise more, make it available to more grade levels
Make the participants search for their own data online, do not spoon feed it to them. Searching for data is a useful skill, that high school students do not get to practice much.
Make this program larger
Maybe do more to foster team interaction at the finals.
Maybe find ways for participants to connect to each other. My school did not have very many people interested in the M3 challenge.
Moody's should be open to all high school students, not just juniors and seniors
Moody's should provide more resources to help students learn more applied mathematics to even the playing field between average high schools and advanced technology high schools
More advertising in general and around high schools specifically about this competition.
More events and competitions
Perhaps providing some resources on topics like differential equations and computer simulations would be helpful for people to read prior to the competition.
2017 M3 Challenge Past Winner Survey
Perhaps suggesting learning programming languages regarding data analysis to participants would allow them to do more
Provide students with a deeper understanding of machine learning before competition, if possible.
Somehow spread the word more - lots of my college peers had never heard of M3 (I know how hard publicity is).
Tell the students to take time-lapse photography of themselves over the course of the 14 hours. Seeing the sun rise and set as you scurry around is a lot of fun.
The survey is the same every year. Maybe ask people employed in STEM fields about how much and in what ways they use math/modeling?
When we presented out paper in 2015, we were unaware of what was allowed during the presentation, ie. talking to eachother or discussing question answers with each other. So we made up strange methods to signal to each other who would answer. I think it would be helpful to many if there was some direction as to what is and isn't allowed.
You should advertise this more.
I have a complaint or frustration to share:
Because the problem is so vague, there was difficulty understanding what was desired in the solution.
I actually rented a zipcar for the first time the other day and it was the worst driving experience of my life
I feel like the internship application has kind of disappeared. I wish it were more present and that I could be more updated with the status of my application. I feel like I haven't heard much from the internship program for Moody's winners, even thought it was advertised so much.
I never received my scholarship money from the competition.
I provided my resume and replied "Yes" to a continued interest email about summer internships with Moody's, but never received any followup.
I really want to intern with Moody's, but have received little sign that Moody's wants me -- a quicker process would be much appreciated!
I recalled winning scholarship money but I never saw what happened to it. It's possible I didn't fill out the forms in time or my university combined it with a generic financial aid, but it was frustrating to never see it (even if it is only a drop in the ocean of private school tuition). It didn't bother me after the first year, but I also haven't filled out a survey before.
I would actually have enjoyed seeing the judges' comments on our paper specifically.
I would loved to have participated in the internship opportunity, but was out of the country (studying abroad in Italy) from when the email was sent until registration closed, so I was unable to apply for the position.
It'd be nice if you kept my information so that I didn't have to fill everything out every year that I get this survery.
Maybe provide more documentation on relevant data, since I remember that was quite a hassle
Please don't do something like the meal planning case of 2014. I found that to be much less interesting than recycling and more relevant to something a nutritionist would like to do. A lot of the pricing models were hidden because wholesalers do not give a uniform price for every buyer.
Schools need to stress statistics more - what the heck America?
The hardest part of the challenge was figuring out what approaches to the problem were even feasible given what data was available on the Internet.
There is no real understanding in the competition of the reality that, in order to apply mathmatic solutions, one must have the situational knowledge and institutional connections that those in the humanities pursue. To this end, I would encourage Moody's to partner with a/several think tanks, aid organizations, and/or governance institutions. Such organizations could help make the contest itself and the opportunities provided to the winners more relevant to those participants that don't pursue STEM fields.
Worried that some teams abuse the freedom