The July 2025 ACSIMC
On July 12, 2025, the ACSIMC was hosted for the second time. Across three rounds and two testing windows, over 220 competitors tested their mathematical skills in an effort to be crowned the highest-scoring competitor in their round.
The ACSIMC is a mathematics competition hosted on Schoolhouse.world, an online platform with a mission of providing free access to education across the globe. Founded by a small group of tutors passionate about competition math and its benefits, the first ACSIMC occurred in February 2025 and had just over 30 competitors.
This iteration of the ACSIMC was in the works for five months, starting the day after the February 2025 iteration. With sponsorships from Art of Problem Solving and Interview Cake, over $2500 in prizes was awarded to the top placers in each round, as well as non-monetary gifts (e.g. certificates and shoutouts).
The ACSIMC Committee persevered through minimal sleep and logistical hiccups to provide a competition of exceptional quality to those who registered.
Guest speaker Ayush T., a senior at Yale University with extensive experience in competition math, gave a lecture about the benefits of competition math, followed by a Q&A session where the 90 competitors that attended the lecture were able to ask Ayush questions about his experience in the mathematical realm.
In the Archimedes Round, Sochima N. won first place out of 64 competitors. In the Stokes Round, Zlata T. won first place out of 77 competitors. In the Rutherford Round, Shavin K. won first place out of 83 competitors. Each of these winners were provided with multiple prizes including, but not limited to, an Art of Problem Solving gift card worth 25 dollars, a Schoolhouse T-shirt, an Interview Cake coupon worth 50 dollars, and a shoutout in the Schoolhouse Hub, the main announcement platform on Schoolhouse.
Managing over 220 competitors in a short time frame is no easy task, but the wonderful ACSIMC Committee was ready to provide all competitors with an exceptional experience, no matter what.
Written by Alex M