Sunday’s New York Times Connecticut section features a story about four students from Westport’s Staples High School who recently won $20,000 in a math competition to figure out how to fix Social Security.
Under the headline, “That Was Easy: Social Security Problems Solved,” the newspaper recounts how the four worked 14 hours on a Saturday in March to win the Moody’s Mega Math Challenge, sponsored by the Moody’s Foundation and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a math advocacy group.
The Times coverage included a picture of the four – Vikas Murali, 17; Miles Lubin, 16; Antrew Tschirhart, 18, and Elizabeth Marshman, 17 – as well as faculty adviser Bill Walsh and Frank Corbo, head of the math department.
The students presented their findings earlier this month to the Board of Education. (See WestportNow April 11, 2006)
