Providing High School Students with Competition Math Resources

If you clicked on this page, you probably already know that my name is Bohdin Bright, and from the big title up there, it's pretty obvious that my project is about providing high school students with competition math resources. 

As personally significant as the topic is to me - I've been a part of my high school math team for four years, and I've been doing math for much longer than that -  it wasn't actually my project for the first half of the course. I originally wanted to try and improve the quality of the school lunches, but that ended when I found out that there is a state nutritionist in charge of setting meal plans for public schools, and I wouldn't be able to change it within the scope of a single-year project. I ended up completely changing my project, ending up with the idea of doing something with the math team.

My original focus of the math team was how to get people to be more engaged with it; the story that I like to tell is how only three out of ten people on my team showed up to the county meet, the biggest event of the season. However, that ended up getting refined and changed around until I landed on my current and final idea: competition math resources for high school students.

In addition to providing resources, I've also worked with Professor Japeth Wood of Bard College, who runs the Upstate NY Math Team, to make sure that all these aspiring mathletes will have somewhere to meet with their peers and practice their skills. I couldn't have done it without him, or Professor Colleen Woods of OCC, who helped in getting my pdf out to the school districts.