a digital artwork<\/a> built entirely with math equations. This piece features animation, music and even a poem.<\/p>\nMichael was named one of just 80 featured artists, and one of 20 in his age group, in the Desmos Math Art Contest. The 2025 competition received more than 10,000 submissions from artists ages 13 and up across over 100 countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to show that even though math can not be a very fun subject for many people, it can still be beautiful,\u201d Amama said.<\/p>\n
The project took about six hours to complete and relied on techniques Amama had already practiced.<\/p>\n
Amama\u2019s interest in math, science and technology began at a young age. His mother, Ayumi Amama, said the Desmos contest is just one example of his self-driven creativity.<\/p>\n
She said Amama often builds themed projects. During the pandemic, he taught himself algorithms, video production and coding, later publishing music on Spotify and creating a Youtube channel.<\/p>\n
He also teaches a course for middle school students in teen mentoring programs, helping younger students develop their skills after school.<\/p>\n
Amama said the contest allowed him to combine his interests and push himself creatively \u2014 and he\u2019s already preparing for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many students, math stays in the classroom \u2014 but for one Manhattan teenager, it\u2019s become a form…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[67,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-162668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-education","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}