This week in Washington, DC, Newton North HS junior Kavish Gandhi and his teammate from Lexington, Noah Golowich, won a $50,000 scholarship for winning second place nationwide in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. This is a huge achievement, likely leading to universities competing for bragging rights for being chosen by these students. If you want to see some high-school juniors presenting what one judge calls “Ph.D-level research,” watch this amazing 12-minute video of their their prize-winning talk, Partition Regularity of Linear Homogeneous Equations and Inequalities. NewtonSTEM.org has more details about their achievements at the national and regional levels.
Congratulations Kavish!!!
Kavish is light years ahead of where I was at his age. Come to think of it, he still is.
Fantastic!
This is fantastic. I wasn’t aware of MIT PRIMES but I’m glad that top local high school students have such a great opportunity to get involved in current mathematics research.
Very, very impressive. It is a shame that Newton does not provide such research experiences within the high schools themselves as is the case in e.g., Commack, NY