Story Competition

People first started talking about the Normal Distribution nearly 300 years ago. The scientific community used their understanding of the Normal Curve to model and give meaning to the results of their experiments.Today, we owe much of our modern technology and modern world to the discoveries made possible by the Normal Curve. So, what would the world be like if the Normal Curve had never been discovered? Submit your story for a chance at $3500 in cash prizes!

http://tamingofchance.vretta.com/

Competitions to celebrate 175th Anniversary of ASA

American Statistical Association is celebrating 175th anniversary. You may celebrate with them by doing any of the following:

• Entering ASA's Got Talent, the ASA's unique talent competition
• Looking for clues in Amstat News and playing ASA's Trivia Challenge
• Sending in your design for the ASA's official 175th anniversary T-shirt

Submit your entries before 30th April 2014. More details can be found at: 

http://www.amstat.org/asa175/celebratewithus.cfm

International Statistics Quiz for School-Aged Learners

Developed by the Royal Statistical Society's Centre for Statistical Education, Stats2013AtSchool is a world statistics quiz for learners across the world. Check it out!

http://www.stats2013atschool.org.uk/

Tweet: "If the normal curve was not discovered..

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto is sponsoring a Twitter contest called “The Normal Curve”. In this unique contest, the Institute poses this question to the world: “What would the world be like if the normal curve was not discovered?” Hurry up and tweet before 15th October, 2013. Details can be found at:

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/mathed/13-14/TwitterCompetition/index.html

Give it your best shot

Get your camera and your photographic eye ready for the newly announced International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) photo contest! This new competition, called the Statistics2013 Photo Contest, is for secondary-school students (grades/years 7-12) around the world. Hurry up and click before 1st December. Details can be found at:

http://www.statistics2013.org/give-it-your-best-shot/

Essay Competition for Young Statisticians

In honor of the 150th anniversary of Politecnico di Milano a competition leading to a BarCamp has been organised for young (< 33 years) statisticians to envision statistical models and methods that will have an impact on the development of technology in the next 25 years. For more details have a look at:

http://mox.polimi.it/barcamp_sco2013/