Project Math Minds™ Scholarship

The Actuarial Foundation has joined with Mu Alpha Theta, the National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society, to implement Project Math Minds™, a new actuarial-related project that will be designed for high school students to work on during the school year. Students will compete for college scholarship money provided by The Actuarial Foundation. Winners will present their results at the Mu Alpha Theta National Convention to other members of the Honor Society.

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2009 Project!

The National Catastrophe Fund* (known as the NCF or the “Nat Cat Fund”) needs enough money to cover the losses that it expects to have in the next calendar year. The primary goal of this Project Math Minds project is to develop an estimate of the potential losses that the Nat Cat Fund will bear in the next year. Check out the description and guidelines and data source below to get started on your project!

Project Description Guidelines 2009

Project Data Source

**The use of the project name, National Catastrophe Fund, is for project use only and not to be confused with any other project, group or organization of similar name or program.

2008 Winner!

The Actuarial Foundation is pleased to announce that Bryan Taylor McMeen of Virgil I. Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama received a $5000 Project Math Minds™ scholarship for his project, A Statistical Analysis Regarding the Projected Growth of Worker’s Compensation Insurance. View the Huntsville Times article about Bryan.

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