Mandelbrot Competition

It allowed high school students to compete individually and in four-person teams.

[citation needed] Many past medalists at the International Mathematics Olympiad first tried their skills on the Mandelbrot Competition.

[citation needed][3] The Mandelbrot Competition was started by Sam Vandervelde, Richard Rusczyk, and Sandor Lehoczky while they were undergraduates in the early 1990s.

Rusczyk now manages Art of Problem Solving Inc. and Lehoczky enjoys a successful career on Wall Street.

The individual competition consisted of seven questions of varying value, worth a total of 14 points, that students had 40 minutes to answer.