Jim Beuerle and Kirstie Doehler are the contest directors. The contest is comprised of 30 multiple choice questions with a time limit of 70 minutes. Questions for the 2016 contest were submitted by Chad Awtrey, Jim Beuerle, Jeff Clark and Karen Yokely. Skip Allis is in charge of the sprint portion of the contest, where students are put on teams with contestants from other schools to solve problems as a group.  In this sprint competition, the winning teams are those that generate the correct answer in the shortest amount of time.

After the contest exams were graded, two students tied for first place with only two mistakes out of 30.  A tie-breaking problem was used to determine the overall winner. The third place team was Enloe High school and the top two team spots went to Carnage and Smith, which are both Middle Schools. Cash prizes were awarded to students who won the sprint portion of the contest. The top 10 students from the Elon contest will advance to the state finals, which will be held on April 14, 2016, at the N.C. School of Science and Math.

Doehler and Beuerle’s presentation, “Lessons Learned from the 2014 AP Statistics Reading,” was given to an audience of mathematics teachers of the Advanced Placement statistics exam. 

The 2014 exam was taken by more than 183,000 students throughout the world. While the exam contains multiple choice and six free response questions, the 90-minute presentation focused on three of the free response questions. 

The goal of the presentation was to inform current teachers of the common pitfalls that students make while conveying their answers. Both Doehler and Beuerle emphasized that the non-computational communication aspect of a student solution was often the key to a successful solution.

The 2014 AP statistics reading marked the fifth time the presenters participated in an AP reading.