Wow! This must be a great honour, especially to be on such a reputable newspaper such as in the New York Times! I am taking Introduction to Number Theory with Mr. Neal, and I think he fully deserves this picture! Way to go gauss202, and you have all my congrats!

However, the problem there isn't exactly challenging, and "less than 5 minutes" to compute (1.1)(0.9) really...

Most American adults (I hope) could solve that in less than 5 minutes. These kids are smart, as the article says, but that example wasn't really a good one. They were obviously picked to go there by AoPS people, so they must be smart.

I bet not that many really low-income (as in too poor to afford a computer) people do math (yay this program fixes it for them) but I know plenty people of all different ethnicities, income levels and genders who do math, so I would have to disagree with the guy who said that those groups are underrepresented. Well, they are underrepresented, but not grossly underrepresented.

Anyway, great program, and congrats on getting publicity!

Math competition stuff gets publicity!

I have never seen such publicity for math competition related stuff before in a national newspaper!

Also, there is not enough information itn he article on how the camp works. Do you choose classes? I have never heard of this thing before, so I was just curious. How do you get people to come? Do they sign up? Must they apply? It's free (or very low cost) obviously, considering these are people who are disadvantaged by low income. Where does the funding come from?