DAISMO

DAISMO is a challenging, multifaceted mathematical Olympiad intended to test the critical thinking and analytical skills of middle and high school students. Apart from spreading the spirit of mathematics, our mission also includes a societal impact: we plan to donate all the funds we collect from this competition to the Angel Xpress Foundation, an NGO working towards improving the lives of underprivileged children through education.

Grades 8-10 and seniors: Grades 11-12. We created questions based on various mathematical concepts: probability, sequences and series, geometry, vectors and algebra. The aforementioned concept were then evaluated based on difficulty and then used to create the Olympiad. The questions were pilot-tested by a random sample of students from grades 8-12 before being used to ensure that they were understandable. These questions were designed to challenge the participants and test their mathematical knowledge and skills

This Olympiad was different from other Olympiads since it was divided into two rounds, a preliminary and a final. In the first round, only the best-performing participants qualified to take part in the final round. The preliminary round was held on the discord platform and the final was held on the website exam.net. In our 1st round, we coded our own bot to ask contestants questions automatically contests answers, keeping in mind the time taken by a contestant to answer a question. We then took 11 people in our senior category and 21 people in our junior category to the next round. Our team invigilated participants using the Microsoft Team application throughout the 1-hour exam. The Olympiad was held on 1st October 2022 with the qualifiers from 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. IST and the finals from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. IST. After the exam, we received many positive comments and all the participants wished to know when this event would be held again. We raised over Rs. 50,000 for Angel Express and the best performers in their categories received certificates with the top performer earning a special certificate.

- Ishaan Shah, Krish Waghani, Tarush Mayani, Ribhav UK, Aditya Iyer, Aditya Mehta, Mainak Nistala, Aarnav Gogri, Mudit Baid, Maahir Jain, Bhavesh Agarwal