Apply for the ARML Student Leadership Program; FMM contest on Oct 10

Hi everyone,

Help us run the SFBA/NorCal + WWW ARML teams! Student leaders have the opportunity to participate in administrative discussions, organizing practices, and helping with logistics. We will work with each selected student leader to determine a personalized set of projects to pursue. We intend for student leaders to design their project in partnership with one of the coaches, and to take active ownership of their project. Student leaders should have attended ARML as part of SFBA/NorCal or Wild Wild West at least once in the past. We encourage student leaders to plan to attend ARML in 2021, though this is not a strict requirement.

To apply, fill out the application form by end of day on October 11. This application should not take long (no more than 20 minutes); we just want to get to know you better in the process. Form: https://forms.gle/PsH9cLKJDDGhWLsD9 

I'd also like to share a math contest opportunity organized by a group of SFBA ARML team members. Over the past few months, I've watched this group build a new math outreach organization called NanoMath and write problems for the inaugural Fall Math Meet. I always challenge students to give back, provide opportunities for others, and help us make our math community stronger. The NanoMath team has met and exceeded that challenge. I love their mission and their relentless drive to build a great math contest, and I'm looking forward to seeing Fall Math Meet come to life. The FMM contest announcement is below, and I hope that many of you will join them on October 10.

Are you working on something cool that you'd like to share with our community? Let me know! I'm always happy to share opportunities with the world. Hope all of you are doing well, stay safe, and I look forward to seeing many of you at online events this fall! :)

Best,

Moor

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Hi,

We are NanoMath, a student-run mathematical outreach organization.

We will be holding the Fall Math Meet (FMM) competition online on Saturday, October 10th, 2020, at 9:15am Pacific Time, with check-in starting at 8:45am. The contest will last until roughly 3pm Pacific Time, with various activities. There will be a lunch break in the middle. The contest will be held live via a Zoom meeting.

The contest is taken in teams of 3 students, and consists of three rounds. The Individual Round is ARML-style; 10 minutes for each of 5 pairs of problems. In the Team Round, you have one hour to solve 15 problems collaboratively. The Speed Round is taken in teams and consists of 50 shorter problems to be solved in 30 minutes. The contest is designed for high school and advanced middle school students; problems range in difficulty from early AMC to late AIME. We have made the contest beginner-friendly; if you don't have contest experience but are doing well in your high school math class, you are encouraged to compete, and the contest should be reasonably approachable for you.

Activities include an estimathon, a guest lecture by Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo, director of Euler Circle, and a problem review from Po-Shen Loh, professor at Carnegie Mellon University and USA IMO team coach.

Prizes to be given include Klein bottles, gift cards, and more!

Registration and additional details at our website: https://nanomath.org/fmm

Join our contest discord server at https://discord.gg/YuMKgWe

NanoMath staff team: Albert Tam, Ashwin Rajan, Darren Yao, Johan Ko, Oliver Ni, and Sarah Fujimori
FMM Contest Advisor: Moor Xu