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Actuarial Boot Camp (Connecticut Insurance & Financial Services)
A multi-day boot camp in Hartford, CT for high school seniors and college freshmen interested in actuarial careers, featuring math and statistics instruction, exam-prep resources, networking with practicing actuaries, and an optional job shadow.
AlphaStar Academy Math Program
Bay Area and online math program with rigorous courses and camps aligned with AMC/AIME/USAMO and Olympiad‑style problem solving.
AlphaStar Summer Math Camp
Selective Olympiad-style math camp with in-person site in Cupertino and online live/self-paced options, focusing on advanced problem-solving and competition preparation.
AMC 10/12 (MAA American Mathematics Competitions)
National contest series leading to AIME and USAMO, administered at schools or online through registered hosts with fall test dates.
AMC–AIME–USAMO Path (MAA Contest Series)
Full contest ladder (AMC 10/12 → AIME → USA(J)MO/USAMO) leading to national math team selection.
American Mathematics Competitions (AMC 10/12)
Nationally standard math contests run by MAA; gateway to AIME, USA(J)MO, USAMO; tests algebra, geometry, number theory, combinatorics.
American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) – Bay Area Teams
Team‑based national competition; NorCal teams practice during spring and travel to ARML sites for proof/short‑answer contests.
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) Online
Rigorous online courses & problem‑solving community; core resource for contest‑math and proofs (AoPS classes in algebra, NT, geo, combinatorics).
ASA Statistics Project Competition
National competition where students design and carry out their own statistical studies and present results, open to grades 7-12.
Berkeley Chess School Scholastic Tournaments
Weekly USCF-rated scholastic chess tournaments held across the Bay Area (Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Alameda) and open to K-12 players including high schoolers, run by the Berkeley Chess School since 1982.
Berkeley Lab Experiences in Research (EinR)
Research placements at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with many projects involving modeling, computation, and data analysis in scientific contexts.
Berkeley Math Circle
Long‑running circle run by UC Berkeley and the Bay Area community; problem‑solving, contest prep, and deep dives into non‑curricular math.
Berkeley Math Tournament (BMT)
Flagship Bay Area high school math tournament with both online and in-person editions at UC Berkeley, recurring annually with advanced problem-solving challenges.
Berkeley Summer Sessions – Introduction to Proofs / Upper‑Division Math for HS
HS concurrent students can sometimes take intro‑to‑proof or discrete math in Berkeley Summer; very strong preparation for higher‑level math.
CalChess Grade Level Championship
A statewide scholastic chess championship held in the South Bay (Milpitas) where California K-12 students, including high schoolers, compete by grade level for state titles. Requires an active USCF membership.
Camp Lemma
One-week summer math day camp in the East Bay for kids who love math, focusing on problem-solving and mathematical games for rising 4th-9th graders.
Canada/USA Mathcamp
A five-week residential summer program for mathematically talented teens featuring college-level and original-topic math classes taught by mentors, with a strong emphasis on exploration and problem-solving over competition prep.
College of San Mateo Concurrent Enrollment – Math
Take community‑college math (precalculus, calculus, discrete math) while in high school; credit can articulate to UC/CSU.
Denker Tournament of High School Champions
A prestigious invitational chess tournament, founded in 1985 by Grandmaster Arnold Denker, in which the reigning high school chess champion of each US state and DC compete against one another for the title of Denker Champion of Champions. Held alongside the US Open.
Firecracker Math Summer Camp
Multi-site Bay Area math camp with locations in Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Lafayette, Mill Valley, Danville, and Alameda focusing on creative problem-solving.
HCSSiM (Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics)
A six-week live-in college-level math intensive for highly motivated high schoolers, built around daily problem sets and lectures that push students to actively discover mathematics rather than just learn it.
International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C)
An international team competition in which high school students spend five consecutive days applying mathematics to analyze and solve an open-ended real-world problem and submit a written solution report; in the USA, participation is by invitation based on performance in COMAP's HiMCM/MidMCM contests.
Kasparov Chess Foundation All-Girls National Chess Championship
An annual national scholastic chess championship run by the Kasparov Chess Foundation (founded by World Champion Garry Kasparov) exclusively for girls, drawing 650+ participants, alongside the foundation's Young Stars training and online KCF Academy instruction.
Lavner Sports Analytics Virtual Camp
Online camp using statistics and coding (Java/Python) to analyze sports data and build analytical models, combining STEM with sports.
Math Kangaroo (Level HS)
International multiple‑choice math contest with local NorCal test centers and online options.
Math Kangaroo USA
Large international multiple-choice math contest with NorCal testing centers and online option, designed to build confidence and mathematical thinking for students of all levels.
Math Madness by AreteLabs
Season-long online team competition with weekly or biweekly matches, similar to an online math league for middle and high school teams.
Math Prize for Girls
A prestigious one-day math competition hosted at MIT by the Advantage Testing Foundation and Jane Street, open to female and nonbinary students in 11th grade or below who have taken the AMC, with substantial cash prizes for top scorers.
Math Teachers' Circle / Bay Area Math Circle for Teachers & Students
Some Bay Area Math Teachers' Circles invite HS student observers or helpers; good for 1‑on‑1 exposure to inquiry‑based math and leadership.
MathCON
National online math test followed by in-person finals for top scorers, covering algebra, geometry, and problem-solving for grades 4-12.
MathILy
A five-week residential summer program at Bryn Mawr College where mathematically excellent secondary students explore advanced topics and build problem-solving skill through an interactive, discovery-oriented format.
Midwest High School Scholars Analytics Academy
A one-week Illinois State University summer academy (running since the mid-1990s) for academically strong high schoolers from underrepresented groups, introducing insurance, actuarial science, and data-driven problem solving.
MIT MITES Summer
Free, six-week residential STEM program at MIT for rising high school seniors (11th graders) from underrepresented or underserved backgrounds. Students take rigorous math, science, and humanities courses, complete a project, and live in MIT dorms. Highly selective; all costs covered.
MIT PRIMES-USA
A free, year-long remote mentored research program from MIT's math department in which high school juniors and sophomores from outside the Boston area work on original, unsolved math problems with guidance from MIT researchers.
PROMYS (Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists)
A six-week residential summer program at Boston University where mathematically motivated high schoolers work through deep, exploratory problem sets in number theory alongside counselors and research mathematicians.
Purple Comet! Math Meet
A free, online team-based math competition open to middle and high school students worldwide, run annually since 2003, where teams collaborate to solve a set of challenging problems within a fixed time window.
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