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Freestyle O.R. Supreme - Rising again at Seattle 2019! Accepting student team members - apply today

  • 1.  Freestyle O.R. Supreme - Rising again at Seattle 2019! Accepting student team members - apply today

    Posted 08-29-2019 21:19
    Hi all!  You are invited to join our excitement this fall at the Annual Meeting in Seattle.  We are offering the next go-round of Freestyle O.R. Supreme, our very own "Frame That Problem" game show.

    We will have a "client" who will present an OR/analytics-type consulting engagement problem to our competition teams.

    We are accepting applications to be a competition team lead (some experience required) and a team member (grad students and early career professionals encouraged to apply; no experience required).

    The problem this year comes to us from our friends in the transportation industry, who have a big problem - such a big problem they need YOU to solve it.

    Each team will have one hour to frame that problem and present the solution.  Recruiters have been invited to sit in the audience, and all conference attendees are invited to apply to participate.  While we will take anybody from a freshman to the chancellor, students and early-career professionals are especially encouraged to apply.

    Interested? Sign up here to show interest (not a commitment, just an expression of interest): Freestyle O.R. Supreme Seattle 2019
    and drop Carrie Beam an email at cmbeam@uark.edu.

    Let the games begin, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

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    Carrie Beam
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    University of Arkansas
    Walnut Creek CA
    cmbeam@uark.edu
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