In Mass Academy, every student had the opportunity to participate in HiMCM. HiMCM is a 48-hour math modeling competition where teams are tasked to create a mathematical model for a real world situation, which puts an emphasis on group work and technical writing. I worked on HiMCM with Donovan Sappet, Marlon Jost, and Nathan Lam. We chose "The Need for Bees (and not just for honey)", which was a problem about modeling the changes of population in a colony of honeybees. In order to successfully model this problem, we needed to get an expansive understanding of how a honeybee population functioned, which required a lot of research. Our approach was mainly dependent on splitting the honeybee colony populations into subpopulations based on the life cycle of a bee and tracking the general changes of those subpopulations. This contest was a unique challenge due to the time limit, research process, writing, and teamwork required to be successful.