On Friday April 15, 2016 14 students from New Hope Academy participated in The Purple Comet! Math Meet.
The Purple Comet! Math Meet is an annual, international, online, team, mathematics competition designed for middle and high school students that has been held every year since 2003. Our teams participated in the high school division. Teams of one to six students compete by submitting solutions to 30 mathematics problems with a time limit of 90 minutes. All teams must be supervised but can choose to participate on any day/time within a ten-day window. The last day for teams to participate is Friday, April 22, 2016 at 04:00 AM UTC. The problems range in difficulty from fairly easy to extremely challenging. This year 2819 teams from 55 countries registered to participate.