Outreach Activites
John Hopkins University: Center for Talented Youth
I have presented and organized break-out sessions for the CTY Science & Technology Series for grades 7-12. Sessions are given during a day-long Saturday conference for interested students and their parents.The sessions I have presented include Fibbonacci Numbers in Nature, Tilings!, and Playing with Polyhedra. I designed the Playing with Polyhedra session, in which students learned about the platonic solids by building examples out of pipe cleaners. We also discussed higher dimensional polyhedra (like the hypercube on the right).
Expanding Your Horizons
Expanding You Horizons is a weekend outreach program at Cornell University for female middle school students. The goal of the program is to increase interest in mathematics and science through hands-on activites. Details of the program can be found at EYH Website.I participated in a workshop called Breaking the Incan Code which explored quipus, an ancient mathematical recording device made of knotted cotton cords. Data is encoded on the quipus based on the location of the knots and the types of knots chosen. Students decoded the quipus provided (without being precisely told what to do), and then created quipus that encoded their birthdays.