Dickson Benesh

Grant Spotlight: Three Teams Place in Top 10% of College-level Math Modeling Contest

By |2022-03-02T15:47:02+00:00May 14th, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

Over 25,000 teams competed in this year's MCM, which is an international math modeling contest which pits university teams against each other.  MLWGS recently had three teams earn honors as Meritorious, which puts them in the top 10% of all the college-level competing teams.  This year's teams were asked to create an evacuation plan for the Louvre museum in Paris, France.  This complex math modeling problem involved detailed analysis of exit locations and museum visitor

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Grant Spotlight: MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

By |2022-03-02T16:35:08+00:00March 5th, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

Thanks to a generous grant from the foundation, Dickson Benesh was able to attend the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, MA in early March.  Mr. Benesh is pictured here with Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game.  Moneyball is one of the texts Mr. Benesh teaches in his Baseball Sabermetrics seminar class.  This unique conference also included talks by noted authors such as Malcolm Gladwell, Nate Silver, Stephen Dubner

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Grant Spotlight: MCM Math Modeling Competition

By |2019-01-23T16:10:19+00:00January 23rd, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

On Monday, January 28, twelve of Mr. Benesh's math modeling students will be participating in the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications' Mathematical Contest in Modeling.  This is a college-level competition that will include about 20,000 teams competing worldwide.  A grant from the MLWGS Foundation covered the registration fees for all students participating.  We'll be rooting for them!  

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Math Modeling at the Baseball Hall of Fame

By |2022-03-02T16:52:09+00:00November 30th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Mr. Benesh's baseball math modeling students are back from their research trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY!  Students conducted research at the Giamatti Research Center, which is the foremost repository of baseball information, in all formats, in the world.  They were working on their papers that will address an aspect of the impact of baseball on America. Students research topics include: Labor relations and the 1994 baseball strike US and Cuba relations

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Taylor Teaching Award 2018

By |2022-03-02T18:35:43+00:00July 23rd, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Dickson Benesh is back from his Taylor Teaching Award-funded trip to the UK!  In the picture on the left, he is at Woolsthorpe Manor in Grantham, England, the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton.  He is standing next to the famous apple tree from which Newton observed an apple falling, leading him to ponder the nature of gravity.  Dickson's trip allowed him to follow in the footsteps of Sir Issac Newton from childhood through his

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Grant Spotlight: 2018 SABR Analytics Math Modeling Competition

By |2022-03-02T18:52:38+00:00March 13th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Spring means lots of Foundation funding for student travel.  This year, we committed to offsetting the cost of class-related trips for students traveling to Morocco (MENA senior seminar), Canada (AP Comparative Government), Phoenix (Math Modeling), and DC (We the People).  The combined enhancement grants for these four trips total just over $57,000, all of which goes to reduce or eliminate the cost for participating students and their families. The Foundation offset the cost of Mr. Benesh's

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Grant Spotlight: NCTM Conference

By |2022-03-02T19:22:58+00:00December 4th, 2017|Spotlight - Grants|

The Foundation has set aside $35,000 in this fiscal year to go toward faculty professional development.  Since June 1, twenty one teachers across six departments have accessed this funding to pay for graduate coursework, conferences, and workshops that enrich their instruction at MLWGS.  This funding just helped Mr. Benesh attend the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2017 Regional Conference in Chicago.  "Having a blast thanks to you guys.  Thanks again!" he wrote to us

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