{"591898":{"#nid":"591898","#data":{"type":"news","title":"High School Students To Work as Mathematicians","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEight high school students today begin a four-week summer job doing mathematics. The interns will be computing sunrise and sunset times, a classic trigonometry and geometry problem, as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~kwickelgren3\/MEEHSS-web-page\/MEEHSS.html\u0022\u003EMathematics Employment Experience for High School Students (MEEHS)\u003C\/a\u003E, a summer program at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Mathematics Assistant Professor Kirsten G. Wickelgren created the program to introduce high school students to mathematics as\u0026nbsp;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\u0026nbsp;\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\u0026nbsp;\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\u0026nbsp;\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\u0026nbsp;\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 be based in the\u0026nbsp;School of Mathematics during the first week of the internship, July 10-14. They will complete the final three weeks in their respective 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\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/gift\u0022\u003EGeorgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a program implemented by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC)\u003C\/a\u003E. CEISMC\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about\/staffdirectory\/doug-edwards\u0022\u003EDouglas Edwards\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/https\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/about\/staffdirectory\/marion-usselman\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Marion Usselman\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;are assisting Wickelgren in organizing this summer internship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Eight interns will compute sunrise\/sunset times and more"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe program is funded in part by Georgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT), a program of the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kirsten Wickelgren developed the program to emphasize mathematics as a career option."}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2017-05-18 18:41:52","changed_gmt":"2020-02-24 20:31:34","author":"A. 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