About the Akamai Foundation

About

The Akamai Foundation was established by Akamai Technologies, Inc. and was initially funded by Akamai executives and its employees. Akamai Technologies helps companies by optimizing Web site performance, delivering broadcast-quality streaming media, and providing interactive application services. The Foundation chose to focus on mathematics because Akamai was conceived and founded on mathematical innovation.

The Akamai Foundation is dedicated to excellence in mathematics in the hopes that we can encourage America's next generation of technology innovators. Their mission is to reach out to students in grades K-12 with the message that mathematics is important, demonstrating to them that it can be magical and fun and in the process, helping them to realize that math can lead to some very exciting career opportunities.

In February 2001, just as the AMC 10 and AMC 12 were being given and the AIME 2001 was going to press, the Akamai Foundation of Boston made a large charitable gift to the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) on behalf of the American Mathematics Competitions. This large charitable gift allowed MAA American Mathematics Competitions to fund scholarships in 2001 and 2002, and a national USAMO in 2002.

In 2001and 2002 the Akamai Foundation provided $1,000 scholarships to the top male and female American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) scores in each state.

During the 2001-2002 academic year:

The AIME scholarships for the top scorers from each state continued
Participants in the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) were flown in May 2002 to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, for the administration of the Olympiad. Through its charitable gift, The Akamai Foundation served as host to the students, proctors, and exam graders for this three day event. Students were also treated to area tours, special guest speakers, and related social and mathematical activities.
In June 2002, there was an enhanced Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program (MOSP), expanding the number of students to 178.

In 2004 the Akamai Foundation provided additional funds so the summer MOSP program could include an additional 24 students (9th graders).

For more information on Akamai and The Akamai Foundation please visit their website: http: www.akamai.com.