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Mathematics Awareness Month 2006
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Madison, Wisconsin

Friday April 7, 2006

The MATC math club had a day-long celebration on Friday April 7, 2006 to celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month 2006.  The day included a special guest lecture, a mathematics competition for high school students entitled "WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER MATHEMATICIAN?", a pie eating contest, and a poster competition for MATC students.

The mathematics competition involved ten area high school students who answered multiple choice questions about pre-calculus mathematics.  The competition was adapted from  ABC's "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?", and was back by popular demand from the previous two years.  To qualify for the competition, each student had to do well on a preliminary exam taken at his or her school.  The score on that exam earned each contestant a proportional number of "lottery tickets."  Before the competition began, students took a quiz to earn more lottery tickets.  All the lottery tickets were then placed in a can and a new name was drawn for each successive round.

Welcome Address Pictures
Bettsey Barhorst, MATC President, welcomes participants to the day's events.	Bettsey Barhorst, MATC President, welcomes participants to the day's events.
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Guest Lecture Pictures
	UW-Madison Professor Nigel Boston begins his guest lecture.
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Round #1 Pictures and Summary (In a nutshell: Yuting Deng of Madison West High School answered 4 questions correctly, but then answered the 5th question incorrectly, resulting in a prize of $2.00)
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Round #2 Pictures and Summary (In a nutshell: Andy Martin of Marquette High School answered won a prize of $2.00)
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Round #3 Pictures and Summary (In a nutshell: ___ ___ of ___ High School answered ___ questions correctly, but then answered the ___ question incorrectly, resulting in a prize of $___)
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Round #4 Pictures and Summary (In a nutshell: Maggie Cerrina of Edgewood High School answered won a prize of $2.00)
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Round #5 Pictures and Summary (In a nutshell: Katehrine Williams of Arrowhead High School answered won a prize of $16.00)
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Round #6 Pictures and Summary (In a nutshell: Andrew Bolanowski of Rufus King High School answered 12 questions correctly, resulting in a prize of $1,024.00)
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Math Morsels and Mayhem Pictures
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PIe Eating Contest Pictures
Men's PIe Eating Contest $25 co-winner Jacob Vincent	Men's PIe Eating Contest $25 co-winner Jacob Tschetter
Women's PIe Eating Contest $50 winner Claire Cope.
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Poster Competition Pictures (In a nutshell: Four cash prizes from $25 to $10 were awarded as shown below.)
$25 first prize poster by Bethany Rahn	$15 second place poster by Matt Fair
$15 second place poster by George Demosthenous, a student of Nataliya Batina's	$10 fourth place poster by Jeremiah Hellenbrand, a student of Gaila Olsen's
entry by Mike Croft, a student in Gaila Olsen's Calculus 1 class	entry by Judy Warzel, a student of Gaila Olsen's
entry by Derek Froehle and Lauren Robarge, students in Gaila Olsen's Calculus 1 class	entry by Jamie Christensen, a student in Gaila Olsen's Algebra Concepts class
entry by Bryan Hanneman, a student in Gaila Olsen's Calculus 1 class
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Lunch Pictures
Our emcee, George Alexander	MATC Math club President, Jeganathan "Sri" Sriskandarajah
MATC Math club President, Jeganathan "Sri" Sriskandarajah
	Question Writer Dave Sarocka
Dave Kasten, graphical artist
Heidi Hillman, invaluable volunteer	MATC Math club President, Jeganathan "Sri" Sriskandarajah
	Al Lehnen, Question Writer ("2 + 2 is this much...")
Heidi Hillman and Dave Kasten at the registration desk	Flynn Dustrud, Question Writer and Powerpoint operator
Our emcee, George Alexander
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