{"591675":{"#nid":"591675","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Mathematics Employment Experience for High School Students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s School of Mathematics has selected eight high school students to take part in a summer employment experience. They will be computing sunrise and sunset times, a classic trigonometry and geometry problem. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Mathematics Assistant Professor Kirsten G. Wickelgren developed the program as part of her NSF CAREER grant to emphasize that mathematics is a career option. \u0026quot;Employing high school students to do math is a direct way of to communicate this option,\u0026quot; Wickelgren says. The experience could attract talented students to pursue higher math or mathematics research in their careers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParticipating students from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/school.fultonschools.org\/hs\/creekside\/Pages\/default.aspx\u0022\u003ECreekside High School\u003C\/a\u003E, Fairburn, Georgia,\u0026nbsp;are John Igieobo, Ashauna Pearson, Steven Sanchez, and Dae\u0026#39;Shawn Taylor. They will be accompanied by mathematics teacher \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chool.fultonschools.org\/hs\/creekside\/Documents\/2016_2017_Faculty_Staff_List.pdf\u0022\u003EAlicia Scott\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/school.fultonschools.org\/hs\/westlake\/pages\/default.aspx\u0022\u003EWestlake High School\u003C\/a\u003E, Atlanta, Georgia, are Tatyana Cook, Micah Dabney, Naomi Davis, and Aaron Woolfolk, accompanied by mathematics teacher \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/school.fultonschools.org\/hs\/westlake\/Pages\/Directory.aspx\u0022\u003ELatricia Gladden\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students will do a four-week internship.\u0026nbsp;The first week will be held in the School of Mathematics at Georgia, and the last three weeks will be held at the high schools.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFunding for the program comes from Wickelgren\u0026#39;s NSF CAREER grant and from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/gift\u0022\u003EGeorgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a program implemented by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC)\u003C\/a\u003E. CEISMC\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about\/staffdirectory\/doug-edwards\u0022\u003EDouglas Edwards\u003C\/a\u003E and\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about\/staffdirectory\/marion-usselman\u0022\u003E Marion Usselman\u003C\/a\u003E are assisting Wickelgren in organizing this summer internship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the internship, students will present a capstone project\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s School of Mathematics has invited eight high school students to take part in a summer employment experience, computing sunrise and sunset times, developing solutions, and writing formulas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eight high school students will compute and solve problems as part of a summer employment experience."}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2017-05-11 18:33:09","changed_gmt":"2017-05-17 15:22:14","author":"A. 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