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Math is Miami Palmetto High School incoming senior Sabina Khizroev’s favorite subject. She won the Outstanding Junior Math Student at the end-of-the-year awards ceremony.
Khizroev is also the incoming president of Mu Alpha Theta, the math honor society.
“I’ve taken a lot of math classes,” she says. “Like Dual Enrollment Intro to Real Analysis.”
Last year she was vice president of competition for Mu Alpha Theta. Club members participate in several math competitions. They did three last year.
She likes math so much, she founded a chapter of InteGirls for girls interested in math competitions. Members are primarily from Palmetto and Ransom Everglades.
“The volunteers are high schoolers,” she says. “It’s open to middle schoolers and high schoolers. It’s a small team. We have six organizers. We worked with UM Society of Women Engineers at the University of Miami.”
When she lived in California, she went to all girls’ competitions so she thought it would be cool to start one in Miami. She founded an InteGirls chapter because the website said they were open to starting chapters. The organization describes itself as “a global nonprofit bridging the gender gap in competitive problem solving.”
“We started with students at Palmetto,” she says. “After our in-person competition we had people wanting to join.”
The InteGirls Miami Spring 2024 Math Competition was held April 14 at UM and was attended by 68 people.
The organizers emailed schools and put it out on social media. There were two competitions, one for middle school and one for high school.
“They competed in the same room but separate tests,” she says.
Another competition is planned for next spring. They expect to conduct two a year.
Currently, she’s the chapter head and she’s on the executive board as statistics director.
“I look at the scores for all the chapters and communicate our problem writing team on how to change the test, how to make the test more difficult or to give more time or more problems,” she says.
She also competes in the Science Bowl for the Science National Honor Society.
She’s been a member of an Envirothon team since freshman year.
“We qualified for internationals our freshman year and got third place,” she says.
The team qualified for nationals this year, but she couldn’t go since she was going to a math summer program at Boston University. This was the second year she’s attended the six-week program. The program included conducting math research and taking classes.
“I don’t know if I want to do math as my career, but I do want to use it,” she says. “I think it’s interesting.”
She’s been active in Women in Tech at Palmetto. She’s been taking computer science classes – initially she didn’t think she’d like it, but it turned out to be a cool class.
Her volunteer work includes being the Finance Director of the Pinecrest City Music Project.
“I started as finance associate and worked my way up,” she says. “They have a lot of money to handle. It taught me a lot about accounting.”
She does have a music connection – she plays piano as a hobby.
Since the beginning of tenth grade, she’s worked an internship at the University of Miami in Astrophysics.
“I started through UM’s Young Scholars Program,” she says. “I wanted to keep going.”
She volunteers for STEM GEM, a gender equity mentorship organization. She goes to Coral Reef Elementary School to do science labs.
At this time, she’s deciding between majoring in Applied Math and Physics. She’s applying to the University of Florida, the University of Miami, Florida State University, MIT, and Princeton.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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