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St. Cloud State University’s third annual Calculus Showcase featured local area high school students competing for top honors June 13 at St. Cloud State.
With teachers, family members and classmates to cheer them on, St. Cloud Technical (Tech) High School students Luke Truitt and Abigail Wolters took first place honors with their presentation “Jetpack Joyride.”
This was the second top finish in a row for Tech High School with the 2016 prize going to Truitt and teammate Charles Owen-Block.
The showcase, sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is an invitational competition for area high school students.
Competitors are two or three-person teams giving 20-minute presentations about applications of calculus they have found beyond their mathematics classrooms. The team members are to agree on a subject that they are interested in, and then find the mathematics within it. Presentations are judged in five areas: choice of topic, accuracy of information, appropriateness to audience, quality of presentation (both visual and spoken) and shared team effort.
“The purposes of the event is to recognize students for their achievements in mathematics and to encourage their creativity in investigating and presenting applications of the ideas of calculus,” said Stephen Walk, St. Cloud State mathematics professor.
Members of the mathematics and statistics department were on hand to listen to the presentations, judge presentations and volunteer.
