When you finish a math modeling contest, you submit your work, close the laptop, and get back to everything else you’ve put on hold. But what happens after that?

Jonathan Juarez worked on smartphone batteries for MCM, then went on to use modeling in a research project. After their first MCM, three students at the University of Southern Mississippi kept working with the models they’d tried during the contest. And Tracy Stepien, who competed in MCM as a student, now helps University of Florida students take part.

Those are a few stories we’ve been able to share. We know there are many more we haven’t heard yet.

Share Your COMAP Contest Story

What Was Your Experience?

If you participated in one of these math modeling contests: MCM®, ICM®, HiMCM®, MidMCM, SCUDEM, or IM²C, we’d like to hear from you. Tell us what you remember about working on the problem. Did anything you learned or tried during the contest come up again later?

Maybe it influenced what you studied or the work you do now. Maybe you just remember a particularly good conversation with your team. You don’t need an award or a big “where are they now” story. Tell us what happened and why it stuck with you.

Share Your Story with COMAP

We’ve put together a short form where you can tell us about your contest experience in your own words. You can share as much or as little of the story as you’d like, whether you competed recently or years ago.

Share Your COMAP Contest Story

We hope these stories will help future participants see what a modeling experience can be like and where it might lead. We’d also love to celebrate the people who have been part of COMAP contests over the years.

So, where did math modeling take you?