The Origin Story of Eurisko, the Most Advanced Math/CS Track in the USA

by Justin Skycak (@justinskycak) on October 24, 2025

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The origin story of Eurisko, the super-advanced math/CS track that I and Jason developed within Math Academy’s school program, that took high school students all the way up to reproducing academic research papers in artificial intelligence, building everything from scratch in Python.

During its operation from 2020-23, Eurisko was the most advanced high school math/CS track in the USA. Students didn’t just import off-the-shelf libraries to complete run-of-the-mill projects. They actually implemented neural networks, backpropagation, game trees, evolutionary algorithms, you name it, from scratch.

It’s still early and the first Eurisko cohort is still in college, but there have already been some amazing student outcomes in terms of college admissions, accelerated graduate degrees, research publications, and science fairs.

For instance, the year after completing the Eurisko curriculum, one high schooler leveraged his quantitative coding chops to conduct and publish career-kickstarting research that “revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, broadened the potential of a NASA mission” (to quote Caltech), and won last year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search ($250,000).

The goal of Eurisko was for students to reach a high enough level of skill that they could capitalize on some math/coding-related opportunity and turn it into a chain reaction of fortunate events. And it’s so great to witness some of these chain reactions get underway.

But the best part is that we’re gradually able to do more and more of this at scale. We’re taking everything we’ve learned from doing math/coding talent development manually, and building it into our online system, to make it available to the whole world.

Further reading: Math Academy’s Eurisko Sequence, 5 Years Later: Student Outcomes Emerging From the Most Advanced High School Math/CS Track in the USA

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