Math-O-Vision is an applied mathematics movie contest open to students who are legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, at least 13 years of age and are registered in high school (grades 9-12) or equivalent home school program at time of entry.
The contest is sponsored by the William H. Neukom Institute for Computational Science as well as the Dartmouth College Mathematics Department based in Hanover, New Hampshire.
This challenge was inspired by the 1959 Disney animated short Donald in MathMagic Land.
Registration is open to high school students in the United States over 13 years of age.
[citation needed] They include Alan Alda, Tom Sito, Dan Rockmore, Lorie Loeb, Ge Wang and Steven Strogatz.