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Akamai Technologies Inc. reports its charity arm has given scholarships to the three highest scoring students in the U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad, including two local high school students.
Wenyu Cao of Phillips Academy in Andover will receive a $20,000 scholarship for a first place finish; Toan Phan of the Taft School in Watertown, Conn., will receive $15,000 for second place; and Qinxuan Pan of Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School in Rockville, Md., will receive $10,000 for third place.
This year, 525 high school students qualified for the Olympiad. In April, the students took a six-question exam, distributed via the Internet to their schools. The Olympiad is the last event in the sequence of increasingly challenging mathematical contests administered by the Mathematics Association of America. More than 220,000 students worldwide took the exam. More than 10,000 were invited to compete in a preliminary contest, and 525 of those participants made it to the U.S. Oympiad.
The U.S. team that competes each summer in the International Mathematical Olympiad is chosen from the U.S. Olympiad.
The Akamai Foundation, established in 2000 by Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), is funded in part by donations from Akamai employees The foundation is intended to promote mathematics education in grades K-12 and to encourage students to become involved in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.
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