Positive Mathematicians Near Pinecrest

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Selected talented female high school students from Miami-Palmetto Senior High School, Ransom Everglades School, and Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart have been jointly invited by their schools and the University of Miami’s Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas, to join the inaugural “Girls are for STEM” program, sponsored by UM.

Through this initiative, beginning in the fall of 2022, accomplished young women scholars will be provided specially designed advanced math courses through the Math Department at University of Miami and taught by faculty beginning in September. The courses are “Introduction to Abstract Algebra” and “Introduction to Probabilty Theory”, and on completion offer 6 college credits for participants. The program is led by Visiting Professor Mina Teicher, Chief Scienitst of Israel, and now the leader of the WIMSA (Women in Math) initiative. It is designed to allow high performing students to learn modern abstract math, absorb and appreciate the beauty of mathematics, prepare for upper-level math courses that they may pursue at the university level, and to network with other talented young female students for friendship in a male dominated field. Civic, community and educational leaders have joined these young women in several events this spring to encourage them to continue striving in STEM, an important area for innovation and national competitive advantage in the future, but topics in which women are too often underrepresented.

Pictured above are Stephanie Wallen (l) and Christine Keedy Brown (r), both Ransom Everglades School Class of 2024, with the Honorable Daniella Levine Cava, the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, who was present along with the Honorable Karyn Cunningham, Mayor of Palmetto Bay (not pictured) on March 24, 2022 to congratulate students on their selection. Wallen and Keedy Brown are each inducted members in Mu Alpha Theta, the National High School Mathematics Honor Society.

Pictured above are Stephanie Wallen (l) and Christine Keedy Brown (r), both Ransom Everglades School Class of 2024, with the Honorable Daniella Levine Cava, the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, who was present along with the Honorable Karyn Cunningham, Mayor of Palmetto Bay (not pictured) on March 24, 2022 to congratulate students on their selection. Wallen and Keedy Brown are each inducted members in Mu Alpha Theta, the National High School Mathematics Honor Society.

Addressing area high school students at the “Girls are for STEM” event  is Honorable Karyn Cunningham, Mayor of Palmetto Bay; also pictured (from left) includes Prof. Robert Stephen Cantrell, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami; and the Honorable Daniella Levine Cava, Mayor of Miami-Dade County.


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