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HiMCM, read closely and coached end to end.
The High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM), run by COMAP, gives teams a fortnight to turn an open, real-world question into a complete English paper. Tian2 coaches the whole arc — from decoding the prompt to a submission that passes every compliance gate — with the same standard the books and competition playbooks keep.
The Contest
COMAP · 2026 = 29th HiMCMHiMCM is an open-ended modeling contest: there is no single correct answer, and the deliverable is a full English research paper. Everything below is sourced from COMAP's published rules for the 2026 season.
The 2026 Calendar
All times US Eastern · the EST deadline is authoritativeBeijing runs 13–14 hours ahead of US Eastern depending on daylight saving. The deadline is governed by EST; coaching plans are anchored to it, not to the local clock.
How We Coach
Seven stages · 建模辅导七阶The work is a resumable, gated pipeline — the modeling loop (understand, assume, model, solve, validate, write) carried stage by stage so nothing is hand-waved and every figure traces back to real, checked computation. The insight stays the students'; the structure is ours.
Decode
Restate the problem, name the sub-questions, pin down the key terms.
Strategy
Choose models and justify them from first principles — not by reflex.
Data & Code
Acquire real data, write and run the model, produce honest figures.
Sensitivity
Parameter sweeps and named stress scenarios — the judges' differentiator.
Draft
The full paper, with embedded figures and a clear results narrative.
Summary
A one-page, numeric summary written for the panel — the decisive page.
Submit-check
Anonymity scan, ≤25 pages, AI-Use Declaration, single final PDF.
What the judges reward
From COMAP's published weightsScreening advances roughly the top half to a preliminary round, then to detailed and final judging, where Outstanding and Finalist teams may defend. A model that is built well but never stress-tested leaves the sensitivity points — and the credibility they signal — on the table.
A Worked Demo Paper
Proof of standard · 示范论文Tackling the Drought — Forecasting Lake Mead & Sizing Water Recycling
A complete 22-page paper produced end to end at the award-winning standard: a coupled pipeline from reservoir level to storage to budget to recycling, validated against real U.S. Bureau of Reclamation data, with a Monte-Carlo coverage analysis and a named decision flip under stress.
Open the demo →On AI Use
COMAP policy, since 2023COMAP permits AI for grammar, translation, and coding assistance, but forbids it as the core modeling idea or as a ghost-writer for the body of the paper. An AI Use Declaration is mandatory, and any AI-generated text counts toward the 25-page limit. Tian2's coaching is built for drafting, structure, and quality assurance — the modeling insight must be, and stays, the students' own.