Integration Bee Trophies (2025)

After I graduated from Rice in December 2024, I was asked if I could update the trophies I made for the next Integration Bee contest in Spring 2025. I was happy to help; initially I planned on simply updating the year and sending over all the files necessary to update it in future years. Eric Cai, responsible for the 3D printing of the trophies last year and now, challenged me instead to make some new designs. He proposed some ideas of his own: one displaying a normal distribution, and one displaying the "Mexican hat" plot of the Higgs potential. I'm glad he pushed me; I'm happy with what I managed to throw together in those couple days.

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The above image features, from left to right: Magnitude of the gamma function (complex analysis); Some normal distributions (statistics); Plot of the Higgs potential (physics); Hyperbolic paraboloid (geometry).

Eric handled the spray painting.

The plates are interchangeable. Since there are 4 different designs with no clear ranking between them, we gave the 4 winners the chance to choose their trophy ornament.

Three of the four winners. Click for HD.