MathEdge Fantasy Sports LLC, a tech startup company co-founded
by Ben Galluzzo and Dave Kennedy, has won the
Ben Franklin Technology Partners Big Idea Contest. This contest is open
to new businesses in Central and Northern Pennsylvania, and awards two prize
packages worth over $150,000 each. MathEdge’s idea is an app named Draft
Hog that uses a mathematical algorithm to help the customer draft a competitive
fantasy football team. It will launch in the summer of 2016.
Galluzzo and Kennedy previously won the TechCelerator@Carlisle’s business plan
contest in the fall of 2015. CONGRATULATIONS, Dr. Galluzzo and Dr. Kennedy!
Ship Math News
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
Congratulations to all of our Spring 2016 Math Graduates
Congratulations to all of the math majors who graduated this semester. Pictured here are Pat Wells, Dr. Tom Evitts, Matt Christman, and Victoria Tomlinson.
Friday, April 22, 2016
MathEdge Fantasy Sports L.L.C. Named a Finalist in the Big Idea Contest
MathEdge Fantasy Sports LLC, a
tech startup company co-founded by Ben Galluzzo and Dave Kennedy, has been
named a finalist in the Ben Franklin Technology Partners Big Idea
Contest. This contest is open to new businesses in Central and Northern
Pennsylvania, and awards two prize packages worth over $150,000 each.
MathEdge’s idea is an app named Draft Hog that uses a mathematical algorithm to
help the customer draft a competitive fantasy football team. Galluzzo and
Kennedy previously won the TechCelerator@Carlisle’s business plan contest in
the fall of 2015. Congratulations to Dr. Galluzzo and Dr. Kennedy!
Monday, April 18, 2016
Shippensburg Math & Computer Science Day
Shippensburg University
held its annual Math & Computer Science Day on April 5, 2016. This is a day
when high school students from the surrounding region come to Shippensburg
University to participate in mathematics and computer science events. The
events this year were a Team Computer Programming Competition, an Individual
Mathematics Contest, and a Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival.
Math & Computer
Science Day by the numbers: 15 high
schools, 90 high school students, 17 high
school teachers, 41 SU student volunteers, 9 SU
faculty volunteers, 1 Penn State Harrisburg faculty
volunteer, 1 University of Pennsylvania graduate student
volunteer, 3 events and over 40 challenging
problems.
New this year was our
partnering with the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, which is supported by
the American Institute of Mathematics. Since the inaugural festival at Google
in 2007, they have become increasingly popular around the United States. The
first international festival was in China in 2015, and later this year a second
will be hosted in New Dehli, India. The Shippensburg University Mathematics
Department is proud to have hosted the first in Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to all
the students who participated in the competitive events. For the Team Computer
Programming Competition there were 9 teams (25 students). Trophies were awarded
to first, second, and third place. For the Individual Mathematics Contest
there were 41 participants. Amazon gift cards ($75, $50, and $25) were awarded
to first, second, and third place.
The organizers Drs.
Lance Bryant, Sarah N. Bryant and Dudley Girard want to thank all of the high
schools that participated this year along with the SU students, faculty, and
staff that make the event possible. We offer a special thank you to Dr. Ben
Galluzzo and Dr. Kim Presser for showcasing some of our undergraduate student
research and talking with high school students about careers in mathematics
during the festival.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Kudos to Curtis Lamp
Congratulations to Curtis Lamp who was recently selected to the highly selective, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SURF Gaithersburg program in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) for this summer. He will be working with mentors from NIST on research associated with latent fingerprint pre-processing. Way to go, Curtis!
MidSchoolMath Annual Conference
In February Dr. Tom Evitts presented the workshop entitled "Persist and Persevere? No Problem!" at the third MidSchoolMath Annual Conference in Santa Fe, NM.
AMTE's Affiliate Connections Committee Appointment
Dr. Tom Evitts was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Affiliate Connections Committee of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Education (AMTE).
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