Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – On October 6, Katie He, a student at the Frazer School, tied for first place at the MIT Math Prize for Girls.
According to Dr. Ravi Boppana, the director of the competition, there were 280 girls from across the U.S. and Canada who qualified for the competition and chose to compete. Student must score very high on the American Mathematics Competition test to be invited, and a total of 13 girls from Florida competed, three of whom are students at the Frazer School – Katie He, Eileen Lai, and Sophia Rong.
The competitors had 2.5 hours to solve 20 very difficult problems. Katie ended up in a six-way tie for first place, and those six girls split the $90,000 prize money from first through 6th place, so each winner took home $15,000.
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