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A team of four students at Christchurch's St Andrew's College have won an international mathematics award for their work modelling the most time-effective way for passengers to board and disembark a plane.
The four year 13 students; Toby Harvie, Luke Zhu, Corin Simcock, and Tom Edwards were one of three teams in the world to get an Outstanding Team award at the International Mathematical Modelling Challenge.
The team spent five days simulating different boarding and disembarking methods, taking into account variables like people with carry-on luggage and groups boarding together.
They found the fastest method for a narrow-body aircraft was for window seats to board first, followed by middle seats and then aisle seats, and for a wide-body aircraft, the fastest boarding was by section - from back to front.
Kathryn speaks to one of the students; Toby Harvie, and Phil Adams, the teacher in charge of digital technologies and mathematics at St Andrew's College.
St Andrew College Year 13 students, world champions at the International Mathematical Modelling Challenge. Photo: Supplied
