Predicting Temperature Changes During Heatwaves and Resource Allocation - M3 Challenge

Watch this 23-minute presentation by the Haberdashers' Boys' School Team from Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, who earned the Technical Computing Runner Up award in the 2025 MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge). Discover how this talented team used mathematical modeling to predict temperature changes during heatwaves and developed resource allocation plans to minimize the effects of heat waves and power grid failures. The M3 Challenge is a prestigious Internet-based competition organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and sponsored by MathWorks, offering over $100,000 or £75,000 in scholarships to top teams in the U.S. and U.K. The competition challenges junior/senior or sixth form students to spend up to 14 hours developing solutions to real-world problems using mathematical modeling, with finalists presenting their findings to a panel of judges.