A geography student has been invited to attend a ceremony in Las Vegas after her team was selected as a finalist for the first INFORMS competition.
Anna Scholes is currently undertaking a year-long placement with HMRC and is working towards a BSc Geography degree at Nottingham. She entered the INFORMS competition, which provides real-world experience for undergraduate and masters-level students, with her fellow interns at HMRC.
Student teams were given the same business problem, data sets, and access to software to solve a challenging problem using an operations research/analytics approach.
The judging process was rigorous and challenging, with a panel of 16 judges including academics and practitioners, as well as representatives from Syngenta.
Eight finalists have been selected and the winner will be announced on Tuesday 4 April at the INFORMS Analytics Conference in Las Vegas.
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) is the world's largest society for operations research professionals.
Posted on Thursday 2nd March 2017