The 2022 Math and AI 4 Girls Award Ceremony will be on Saturday, June 18th, 2022 at 2PM EST.
Many thanks to our gracious sponsors: HPE, Automation Anywhere, JPMorgan Chase and D.E. Shaw. We would also like to thank our partners, MathCounts and AI4ALL.
Finally, this year's competition wouldn't be possible without our wonderful team members: Yunseo Ha, Kira Lewis, Chinmayi Goyal, Maggie Bai, Snigtha Mohanraj, Andrea Chen, Ivy Guo, Daria Bondarenko, and Sailalitha Kodukula. These girls, a group drawn exclusively from last year's top scorers, have been exemplary in their talent, passion and thoughtfulness.
Award Recipient List:
Top 10:
1st Place: Amritha Praveen, IL, 6th grade
2nd Place: Kira Lewis, NY, 8th grade
3rd Place: Advika Asth
Maryam Mirzakhani
Stanford Math professor
First female Fields Medal recipient
"The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers"
Katherine Johnson
NASA Mathematician
"Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men."
Evelyn B Granville
Mathematician,
University of Texas Professor
“I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.”
Shakuntala Devi
Writer, "Human Computer
"Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers"
Fei-Fei Li
Stanford Professor, Founder of AI4ALL
"If we don’t get women and people of color at the table - real technologists doing the real work - we will bias systems.”
Melinda Gates
American philanthropist, Gates Foundation
"When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else."
Debbie Sterling
CEO, GoldieBlox
"We’re not here to say pink and princesses are bad, we just want girls to know they can build their own castles too!"
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Writer, Former First Lady
“We need all hands on deck. And that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering and math.”
Sponsors and Endorsement
"Natalie’s enthusiasm in encouraging girls to participate in math and AI at the highest levels is contagious. She has packed her website with really useful resources to help middle and high school girls achieve success and narrow the gender gap."
-Dr. Andrew Metrick,
Professor,
Yale School of Management
“We are incredibly proud MATHCOUNTS played such a big role in inspiring Natalie’s path to becoming an active and accomplished role model for her fellow female mathematicians. Her work demonstrates that the impact MATHCOUNTS has on just one person does not stop there…it grows exponentially when they share their talents and passion with others.”
Kristen Chandler,
Executive Director, MATHCOUNTS Foundation