America Race achievement levels are: O Award, F Award, M Award, H Award, S Award, U Award.

There are six awards in the USSports***, namely Outstanding Winner USSports Grand Prize, Finalist USSports Grand Prize Nomination, Meritorious Winner USSports First Prize, Honorable Mention USSports Second Prize, Successful Participant, Unsuccessful Participant, and Unsuccessful Participant. These awards are abbreviated as O Award, F Award, M Award, H Award, S Award and U Award.

The U.S. Student Mathematical Modeling Competition is currently divided into two types, MCM and ICM, both types of competitions are conducted using a unified standard. MCM: the participants of the mathematical modeling literacy as well as modeling ability is required to be higher, generally A question is a continuous problem, B question is a discrete problem, and the C question is related to big data and data mining.

ICM: generally involves more macro and complex problems. It requires a high level of competence for participants to grasp the main lines of the problem and weigh the macro and micro, the whole and the details. there are 3 questions in ICM, D question is generally related to network science or optimization, E question is related to environmental science, F question is related to policy and social science, and it focuses on modeling problems in social science.

In 1985, with funding from the U.S. Science Foundation, a university-level competition called the Mathematical Modeling Competition was created to encourage university students and faculty to articulate, analyze, and propose solutions to a wide range of real-world problems that are not fixed in scope, and to encourage active participation in the process through a structure that emphasizes the importance of The process of realizing a complete model construction is emphasized. It is a completely open competition, with only a few real-world problems per year from an unlimited number of fields.

Students compete in teams of three, choose any one problem over four days, complete the entire process of mathematical modeling of that real-world problem, and write a paper on the restatement of the problem, simplifications and assumptions and their reasonableness, the construction and solution of the mathematical model, its testing and refinement, and a self-critique of the strengths and weaknesses of the model and its range of possible applications.

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The competition is open to students from China and abroad, who are free to form teams. All team members must be current students, and cross-grade and cross-major teams are allowed, but not cross-school teams. Teams are allowed to form across grades and majors, but not across schools. Teams are determined on the basis of the highest level of education of the team members. Each team is allowed to have a maximum of one instructor, who must be a full-time college teacher, or the team may not have an instructor.