Watch a finalist presentation from the MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge 2024, featuring York Community High School's team from Elmhurst, Illinois. Discover how these high school students applied mathematical modeling to predict future housing shortages and homelessness in the United States. Gain insights into the prestigious M3 Challenge, an Internet-based competition that inspires students to pursue STEM careers by tackling real-world problems. Learn about the competition's format, including the 14-hour problem-solving window, multi-stage judging process, and scholarship prizes totaling over $100,000. Explore how this annual event, organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and sponsored by MathWorks, has awarded more than $1.85 million in scholarships to date, fostering the next generation of STEM professionals in the U.S. and U.K.