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SCUDEM In The News

If your team or coach has published a paper about your work on SCUDEM we would like to hear about it and add it to this list.

MAA Math Horizons Article by Student Team

A wonderful article, SCUDEM Competition, published in the Mathematical Association of America’s  journal Math Horizons by Aidan Bryant and Aryan Tiwari of the University of Florida, discusses in great detail a team effort leading to an Outstanding Award in SCUDEM VIII 2023. This piece was beautifully written in a personal tone by students. See the team video presentation in SIMIODE’s YouTube Channel.  Math Horizons is one of many great journals available for membership in MAA. Mathematical Association of America, 2025. All rights reserved.


SCUDEM Testimonials

Stuyvesant High School

Stuvesant High School, a science and mathematics school in Manhattan, New York City, shares news of its participating teams in SCUDEM IX 2024 in a very engaging and informative article written by student journalists in the school newspaper, The Spectator. 


Achieving Team Success

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University of Delhi

An example of scope and breadth of participation. Congratulations to Arya Yadav, Utkarsh Singh, and Kamaldeep Bhatt (holding their team certificates) for this amazing team effort and Meritorious Award and a heartfelt thanks for the opportunity at SCUDEM VIII 2023 under Coach Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Rajni Arora, Shyam Lal College of the University of Delhi, New Delhi INDIA.

The Collegial Conversation webinar

Watch the Collegial Conversation webinar from 27 September 2021, conducted by Brian Winkel (Director SIMIODE) and Anthony Stefan (Florida Institute of Technology) for practical advice for Coaches and Student Challengers. The slides of the presentation include helpful links to details and guiding materials.


SCUDEM Team Papers Published

The Outstanding SCUDEM IX 2024 Team from Duquesne University

The Outstanding SCUDEM IX 2024 Team (Megan Kwiatkowski, Mitchell Livengood, Kyla Covato) from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA 15282 has published their model as a paper, Heavy metal never tasted so good: A mathematical model of cadmium exposure from dark chocolate consumption, as part of the SCUDEM IX 2024 Modeling Challenge, in the Pittsburgh Interdisciplinary Mathematics Review, Volume 23, Number 1, pp. 107-131. The team was coached by DR Kimberly F. Williams.

The Outstanding SCUDEM V 2020 Team from Florida Institute of Technology

The Outstanding SCUDEM V 2020 Team (Miles Pophal, Chenming Zhen, Henry Bae) from Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL USA has published their model as a paper, Using Differential Equations to Model a Cockatoo on a Spinning Wheel as part of the SCUDEM V Modeling Challenge, in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal, Volume 23, Number 1. The team was coached by Anthony Stefan while a graduate student at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL USA.

The Outstanding SCUDEM Team IV 2019 Team from Florida Institute of Technology

The Outstanding SCUDEM IV 2019 Team (Z. Fralish, N. Hallmark, J. Marshall) from Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL USA has published their model as a paper, Using Differential Equations to Model Phoretic Parasitism as Part of SCUDEM Challenge, in the International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, Volume 16, Issue 1. The team was coached by Jay Elsinger, faculty member at Florida Southern University, Lakeland FL USA.

The Outstanding SCUDEM III 2018 Team from Florida Southern University

The Outstanding SCUDEM III 2018 Team (Z. Fralish, A. Stefan, B. Tyson) from Florida Southern University, Lakeland FL USA has published their model as a paper, Using Differential Equations to Model Predator-Prey Relations as Part of SCUDEM Modeling Challenge, in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal, Volume 20, Issue 2. The team was coached by Jay Elsinger, faculty member at Florida Southern University, Lakeland FL USA.

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