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2023 mathleague.org High School National Championship
May 20, University of Missouri - Kansas City

mathleague.org is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the twenty-fourth annual National Championship for high school students on May 20, 2023. We recognize that some of you may be unable to travel to the contest site, so we will offer an online option to participate as well. Please see below for information about all aspects of the contest. If you need to contact us with questions that are not addressed on this page, you may email us at customercare@mathleague.org. We plan to display a picture slideshow on the projector prior to the start of the awards ceremony. If you have pictures from contests this year that you would be willing to share, please email them to us at pictures@mathleague.org.

Perhaps the biggest and most exciting change this year is that for the first time, students who place in the top ten of their grade level at Nationals will be invited to compete in the International Championship in Bali, Indonesia, on July 11. Click here for more details.

Participation

In each state where mathleague.org held a State Championship in 2023, certain high-scoring students are qualified to participate in the National Championship; details for how to qualify can be found here. Registration for this contest is only open to students who qualify or who are selected off the waiting list to replace qualified students who are unable to attend. To ensure a seat at the contest, eligible students must register by May 12; after May 12, if space is available, students will be invited from the waiting list to replace qualified students who have not yet registered. To join the waiting list, please send an email to customercare@mathleague.org indicating which students from your school would like to attend the contest if space is available. The contest fee will be $20 per student if paid online by May 17 or $30 per student after May 17, and students must pre-register for the contest by clicking the link below. Your confirmation email will indicate how to make payment for the contest.

To see a list of students from your state who have qualified for the National Championship, go to our results page, select your State Championship from the drop-down menu, and click the "qualifiers to next level" link. Contact us at customercare@mathleague.org if your school had two or more students in the same grade with the same initials and you need help determining which student(s) qualified for the National Championship. Also be sure to let us know if you find any mistakes in the list so we can make sure everyone who qualified for the National Championship shows up on the list of qualifiers. We will be sending invitations to all students who qualified, but if you are eligible to attend the contest you do not need to wait for this invitation before registering.

Every school that registers for the contest must be accompanied by one or more adult chaperones who will remain on site throughout the event (one chaperone should be designated on the registration form).

The registration deadline has passed for this contest. If you wish to register late, please contact us to see if any space is available.

Transportation and Logding

The contest will be held at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, in Education Building room 118. A map is available here. Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation to the venue and lodging. Free bus and car parking is available at locations as indicated on the map; we have been assured by our contacts in the Education Department that parking regulations will not be enforced on May 20 in the lots adjacent to the Education Building.

Testing

Written testing will consist of Power, Team, Target, Sprint, and Relay rounds. The Power Question will be distributed to verified chaperones two days before the National Championship along with instructions for completing and submitting the answers prior to contest check-in; in order to maintain test security, Power Questions will only be sent to one chaperone per school and only upon request. Participants are expected to bring their own pencils and calculators. The approximate schedule will be as follows (all times are Central Daylight Time):

9:00 Check in
9:30 Sprint Round
10:45 Target Round
11:45 Team Round
12:15 Relay Round
12:45 Lunch Break
2:30 Countdown and Awards Ceremony

If your students cannot test in the designated test center at the designated time for religious or health reasons, please contact us for more information about how we can accommodate the affected students.

Awards

Prizes will be given to the top students in each grade level, as well as to the top teams. The awards ceremony will include a live Countdown round for the in-person participants, and we will also have a live Countdown round for the online participants immediately after testing concludes. We will be awarding a scholarship to the winner of each Countdown round as well as to the student with the overall top individual score on the written tests; details and a description of how students are selected for the Countdown round can be found at this link.

Preparation

Practice tests are available for purchase at the mathleague.org store if you would like to prepare for the contest (one set of tests is available for free download on our site as well). For schools that did not get a copy of the State Championship questions and would like to review those to practice for the National Championship, please let us know once you have registered for the contest and we will email a copy of the questions to you.

Online Participants

For those of you who are qualified but unable to attend the National Championship in person, you may register below to attend the contest online. We have designed the experience to be as similar to the in-person experience as possible: You will pay the same registration fee as the in-person participants, you will take the test at the same time as the in-person participants, and if selected you will be able to compete in the Countdown Round. Please note that if you win any awards you will need to send us a $10 shipping and handling payment per item before we can mail the awards to you. The testing interface will be the same as we've used all school year, but we will be instituting very strict monitoring requirements to ensure the highest levels of testing security. The online testing option is intended only for students who are able and willing to adhere to the testing requirements and who are sufficiently familiar with our online testing platform that they will be able to navigate the online platform with no difficulty and emergency support only.

Online participants need to be prepared for the following measures: (1) Strict enforcement of all rules listed on our website regarding online contests. (2) Visual verification of chaperone presence prior to testing and at any subsequent point we deem necessary. (3) Use of student's real name in the Zoom room. (4) No classroom setups, i.e. every student must be logged into Zoom on their own device. (5) Specific camera positioning requirements that will require a Zoom-connected camera recording from over the student's right shoulder. (6) Local recording of audio at student's location. (7) Pre-contest verification of student's ability to record audio, position camera correctly, and log into our contest website. Online participants will be required to take the test on a computer (not a phone or tablet).

By registering for the online contest: (1) You acknowledge the inherent risks associated with competing online, including technical failures on the part of the user, Zoom, or mathleague.org. (2) You accept responsibility for following all instructions both written and verbal that mathleague.org delivers regarding administration of the online contest. (3) You accept any consequences that may arise from any of these risk factors or failure to follow instructions, including the possibility of scores not being recorded. You may register using the form below.