Project Title: Adelphi Summer Institute of Mathematical Epidemiology (ASIME) Speaker Series

Project Director: Josh Hiller

Project Summary: This project will expand the reach and increase the impact of the already successful Adelphi Summer Institute of Mathematical Epidemiology (ASIME) Speaker Series by increasing the number of in-person speakers and providing a budget to secure speakers from various regions of the country. These speakers will elucidate the beauty and power of mathematics in biology and medicine and talk about their journeys in the mathematical profession. The speakers’ series will be open to the entire community.

Project Title: Baylor University’s Math Circle

Project Director: Christoph Fischbacher

Project Summary: This project will continue and expand the Baylor Math Circle – a middle school mathematics outreach program. Middle school students will be recruited from all school types (public, private, and home-schooled) and socioeconomic backgrounds. Emphasis will be given to problems that challenge students but are scaffolded in a way that allows them to experience success and piques their curiosity. Short presentations at the end of the sessions given by appropriate role models working in STEM fields will allow students to identify and see themselves pursuing similar academic and career trajectories. In addition, a college information evening session will be held to inform local families about scholarship opportunities and steps that can be taken early to increase the chances of obtaining financial support for their children.

Project Title: CWU Sonia Kovalevsky Day 2025

Project Director: Chris Black

Project Summary: CWU Sonia Kovalevsky Day is an event for high school students, full of mathematical enrichment, mentoring, and career advice. Groups of student participants will be paired with current CWU students and attend workshops that explore mathematical topics not traditionally included in K-12 curricula. Teachers who attend in support of their students can participate in state-recognized professional development sessions. Both students and teachers can submit questions about mathematical careers to a panel of CWU faculty in order to encourage students to consider careers in mathematical fields. Central Washington University has partnered with the Washington State Mathematics Council to host a Sonia Kovalevsky Day at the CWU campus.

Project Title: Math Enrichment Day

Project Director: Sara Lenhart

Project Summary: This project is a Math Enrichment Event at Christopher Newport University (CNU) for approximately 200 seventh- and eighth-grade students from the Newport News, Virginia, area, in collaboration with the Governor’s School for Science and Technology (GSST). The event aims to spark enthusiasm for mathematics by exposing students to engaging, non-traditional mathematical concepts through hands-on activities, interactive workshops, and real-world applications.

Workshops will be led by CNU faculty, mathematics majors, and GSST high school students, fostering peer mentorship and role modeling. A keynote speaker will introduce mathematical problem-solving through Rubik’s Cubes, while a career panel featuring professionals from NASA Langley Research Center, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and other STEM fields will showcase how mathematics is applied in various careers.

By hosting the event at CNU, students will experience a university setting, building connections between secondary and higher education while inspiring them to pursue advanced mathematics and STEM pathways. The project will also provide teachers with resources to extend learning beyond the event.

Through engaging activities, professional connections, and peer mentorship, this initiative will create a transformative experience that encourages students to see themselves as future mathematicians and problem-solvers.

Project Title: Project UNSOLVED: Unleash New Skills with Open-Ended Learning Ventures in Exploratory Discovery

Project Director: Nicole Wessman-Enzinger

Project Summary: This project invites middle and high school students to step into the world of unsolved mathematical problems, challenging their perceptions of math as a rigid discipline. Through an innovative seminar approach, middle and high school students will explore accessible yet unsolved problems, fostering critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. This hands-on, open-ended format empowers students to work as young mathematicians, making conjectures and discovering patterns in an interactive, inquiry-driven environment. The program’s focus on conceptual understanding over rote solutions, coupled with learning elements of mathematics not typically taught in school, redefines math as a dynamic and evolving field. By concluding with a university-hosted symposium, students will present their findings alongside undergraduate researchers, promoting the idea that math is a creative, ongoing human endeavor. This transformative approach aims to inspire a new generation of thinkers ready to explore the unknown.

Project Title: Rowdy’s Math Rodeos for Grades 6-12 Students in Southwest Louisiana

Project Director: Haile Gilroy

Project Summary: Rowdy’s Math Rodeos introduce grades 6-12 students to the wonder of mathematics in an informal, interactive setting. In 2020, the COVID pandemic put learning on hold for many students. For the students of Southwest Louisiana, the learning loss from Fall 2020 through Spring 2021 was exacerbated by the impact of two hurricanes, a historic freeze, and a subsequent flood. Rowdy’s Math Rodeos bridge the gap between this unfortunate learning loss and a community that relies on STEM to function. The Math Toy Barn was established as a resource for outreach events held on and off campus, branded Rowdy’s Math Rodeos after McNeese State University’s mascot, Rowdy the Cowboy. The Toy Barn houses reusable supplies for the Math Rodeos and detailed instructions for suggested activities to be used well into the future, sustaining the project for years to come.

Project Title: Bridge to Calculus summer program

Project Director: Bindu Veetel

Project Summary: Bridge to Calculus (BtC) is a long-term partnership between Northeastern University and Boston Public Schools, founded by visionary Prof. Robert Case, to strengthen students’ math skills and expand access to advanced coursework. Now in its 31st year, BtC offers an intensive 7-week summer program, year-round online tutoring, and hands-on STEM enrichment in fields like Data Science, Physics, and Financial Literacy. The program has had a profound impact, enabling more BPS students, especially from non-exam schools, to take rigorous Precalculus and AP Calculus, helping them earn college credits and prepare for higher education. Taught by experienced BPS teachers, NU faculty, and dedicated mentors, BtC fosters both academic excellence and a strong sense of community. In Summer 2023 and 2024, all students received a $15/hour stipend through the City of Boston’s summer youth employment program, removing financial barriers to participation. With a lasting emphasis on mentorship, many alumni return to inspire future cohorts, ensuring that BtC’s impact extends far beyond the classroom.

Project Title: PReMa Program

Project Director: Kun Wang

Project Summary: PReMa (Program for Research in Mathematics) is a free research program designed for high school students passionate about mathematics. This program offers a unique opportunity for students to engage in individual or group research projects under the mentorship of academic experts from Texas A&M University. Our goal is to introduce students to the beauty and complexity of advanced mathematics while providing hands-on experience in all aspects of mathematical research, from problem exploration to presentation of findings.

Project Title: Math Research Experience for Lowcountry High School Students and Teachers

Project Director: Breeanne Swart

Project Summary: Lowcountry high school students and teachers will join faculty from The Citadel for a week-long camp to solve open problems from journals such as The Fibonacci Quarterly and MAA publications. The participants will experience the research process from start to finish, including finding open problems, exploring and solving the problems, presenting the results orally, and submitting a written solution to a publication. Daily presentations will provide participants with the opportunity to practice oral presentation skills with a final presentation to teachers, family, and friends. Participants will have the opportunity to complete written and oral presentations at the South Carolina Junior Academy of Sciences annual meeting in March or April 2026.

Project Title: Math Circle

Project Director: Sarah Hanusch

Project Summary: The Oswego Math Circle is a monthly program for junior high and high school students in Oswego County, New York. As much of Oswego County is rural, this math circle provides a community for students passionate about STEM that transcends school district lines. Each session features a guest facilitator who leads the students to investigate a problem, puzzle, or game. That problem connects to a mathematical concept typically outside the K-12 curriculum. Open to all who are eager to learn, these sessions provide a unique opportunity for discovery and engagement.

Project Title: Central Florida Math Circle

Project Director: Seongchun Kwon

Project Summary: The Central Florida Math Circle is a math enrichment program for regional middle school students offered by the Math Department at the University of Central Florida (UCF). It is a 6-week Saturday program held during the spring semester on the UCF campus. The program consists of three groups: Grade 6, Grades 7 & 8, and the Advanced Group. This collaboration aims to improve our existing program, with particular emphasis on enhancing the Grades 7 & 8 group’s experience by better aligning it with the regional middle school curriculum.

Project Title: The 15th Math Day at the University of Guam

Project Director: Hideo Nagahashi

Project Summary: The University of Guam, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, organizes Math Day, the annual event for high school and middle school students. Math Day consists of two parts: a Quiz Competition and a Lecture. In the Quiz Competition, teams from individual schools solve math problems and trivia questions in front of a live audience present at the event. Teams compete in one of the three categories: Basic Algebra, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus. The second part will be a lecture given by a guest speaker invited from off-island. Math Day started in 2008 and has successfully encouraged students to study mathematics.

Project Title: UM Math Day 2025

Project Director: Matt Roscoe

Project Summary: Math Day is a mathematics enrichment event for middle and high school students and their teachers held at the University of Montana. The event features three sessions in which faculty members and graduate students in the Department of Mathematics engage participants in active learning workshops on mathematical topics that are not commonly included in the K-12 curriculum. A large-group celebratory gathering is also featured, where students solve problems for a chance to win mathematical awards.

Project Title: THRIVE Program at Utah Tech University

Project Director: Vinodh Chellamuthu

Project Summary: The THRIVE Program at Utah Tech University is a year-long initiative that equips high school students and teachers with skills in mathematical modeling, data science, and research-driven problem solving. Mentored by UT mathematics faculty, participants engage in biweekly research sessions, solving past SIAM MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3) problems, and culminating in a competition submission and presentation at the UT Trailblazer Research Symposium. Each year, nine high school students and three teachers from southern Utah are selected and divided into teams, each mentored by a high school teacher and a UT faculty member. The program fosters critical thinking, inquiry-based learning, and mathematical communication, while encouraging students to pursue mathematical sciences. THRIVE enhances recruitment for UT’s mathematics program by building a strong community of young problem solvers through real-world research experiences.

Project Title: Expanding Access to Mathematical Enrichment through the Main Line Math Circle

Project Director: Kathryn Haymaker

Project Summary: The Main Line Math Circle (MLMC) will host meetings once a month at Villanova University during the 2025-2026 academic year. The math circle will be open to all interested middle school students in the Philadelphia area. Using a unique mentoring model where high school students from Lower Merion High School Math Club will assist with math circle sessions and serve as role models for the middle school student participants, each session will focus on encouraging mathematical exploration and fun. With a mission to foster a love for mathematics, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving, the Main Line Math Circle will serve as a vital resource for students from diverse backgrounds.

Project Title: An FDU Math Circle to Extend the Radius of Outreach

Project Director: Mark Farag

Project Summary: The Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) Math Circle is a weekly online exploration of topics in Number Theory and Abstract Algebra by talented and motivated high school students with guidance from a member of the FDU faculty. In exploring these abstract mathematical topics, students learn how to formulate conjectures from well-considered examples, and they gain experience with formulating proofs for or finding counterexamples to those conjectures. Students thereby increase their understanding of what abstract Mathematics is and how it is done. Both organically through the Math Circle sessions and by interactions with guest mathematicians, students are also encouraged to consider the possibility of pursuing Mathematics as a college major and a career path.

Project Title: MaPP Challenge ’25

Project Director: PJ Couch

Project Summary: The MaPP Challenge is a roughly three-hour puzzlehunt generally involving three threads of multiple related puzzles. Our puzzle designers take the essence of ideas from ongoing mathematical research, and distill them into puzzles accessible to our 7th-12th grade players, experienced as a themed alternate reality experience. Upon arrival at a host campus, teams of up to 8 students are collected together for an orientation session explaining the basic concept and boundaries of the game. At this time an overall narrative, often themed as a parody of some aspect of pop culture (movies, books, games), is presented to the teams. Once given the starting information, teams are presented with three location puzzles, each serving as a trailhead for a thread of puzzles, for which each puzzle solved reveals a new layer of puzzle in that thread. Eventually, these threads reveal an overall meta puzzle, requiring the team to collect together information from throughout the day to solve.

Project Title: Summer Camp in Board Games and Mathematics

Project Director: Kenneth Mulder

Project Summary: Over the last 20 years, there has been a renaissance in board game design resulting in the publication of several complex, systems-based board games, often referred to as Euro-style games. These games are highly strategic and engaging, and underlying many of them is a mathematical structure designed to simulate characteristics of a desired system. This summer camp in math and board games will introduce high school students to a variety of mathematical concepts, and more generally to the art of mathematical creation, by getting them to analyze and model a select set of Euro-style games. Through a desire to understand who wins and who loses, students will be led to create their own mathematical structures as well as to study and apply existing concepts from probability, graph theory, optimization, and the study of complex systems.

Project Title: Texas A&M University PReMa program

Project Director: Kun Wang

Project Summary: PReMa (Program for Research in Mathematics) is a free research program in mathematics for high school students. This program is designed to provide an excellent opportunity for students to work on individual or group research projects under the guidance of academic mentors from the Texas A&M university. Our goal is to expose students to the beauty and intricacy of advanced mathematics, as well as to allow them to get hands-on experience with all aspects of mathematical research. Operating as an annual outreach effort, PReMa spans the entire year, dedicating itself to enriching students’ mathematical education and research skills.

Project Title: Math Research Experience for Lowcountry High School Students and Teachers

Project Director: Breeanne Swart

Project Summary: Lowcountry high school students and teachers will join faculty from The Citadel for a week-long camp to solve open problems from journals such as The Fibonacci Quarterly and MAA publications. The participants will experience the research process from start to finish including finding open problems, exploring and solving the problems, presenting the results orally, and submitting a written solution to a publication. Daily presentations will provide participants with the opportunity to practice oral presentations skills with a final presentation to teachers, family, and friends. Participants will have the opportunity to complete written and oral presentations at the South Carolina Junior Academy of Sciences annual meeting in March or April 2025.

Project Title: USD Math Circle

Project Director: Catalin Georgescu

Project Summary: USD Math circle is an after-school program with the purpose of exposing students from grades to 7 -12 to topics not usually covered in the standard mathematical curriculum and to simultaneously prepare them for the AMC competitions. In a broader goal we try to build a hub and provide guidance for all the students in the region interested in a career in STEM. This club, under the guidance of the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of South Dakota, is an outreach program in collaboration with Vermillion High School which plans to develop and foster the interest in Mathematics of students in the South-East area of South Dakota.

Project Title: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Enrichment Activities for Middle and High School Students

Project Director: Diana Cheng

Project Summary: This project extends the work of 2020 & 2022 DMEGs and will provide culturally relevant mathematics enrichment experiences for middle and high school students throughout greater Baltimore, Maryland. These enrichment experiences will be designed by Towson University faculty in partnership with undergraduate preservice teachers. This structure provides opportunities for mentoring between Towson faculty and students as well as mentoring between university students and school students. Through this project, students at various academic levels will develop an awareness of authentic mathematic applications and thus raise awareness of career opportunities in mathematics.

Project Title: Central Florida Math Circle

Project Director: Seongchun Kwon

Project Summary: Central Florida Math Circle is a math enrichment program for regional middle school students offered by the math department at the University of Central Florida (UCF). It is a 6-week Saturday program held during the spring semester on the UCF campus. As part of our enhancement efforts, we will collaborate with three elementary and middle school regional public school teachers who are NSF/Noyce doctoral fellows pursuing an EdD at UCF. The program consists of three groups: Grade 6, Grade 7 & 8, and the Advanced Group. This collaboration aims to improve our existing program, with particular emphasis on enhancing the Grade 6 group’s experience.

Project Title: The 14th Math Day at the University of Guam

Project Director: Hideo Nagahashi

Project Summary: The University of Guam, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science organizes Math Day, the annual one-day event for high school and middle school students. Math Day cosists of two parts, Quiz Competition and Lecture. In the Quiz Competition, teams from individual schools are asked to solve math problems and trivia questions in front of a live audience present at the event. Teams compete in one of the three categories, Basic Algebra, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus. The second part will be a lecture given by a guest speaker invited from off island. Math Day started in 2008, and has been quite successful encouraging students to study more mathematics continuously.

Project Title: UM Math Day 2024

Project Director: Matt Roscoe

Project Summary: Math Day is a one-day mathematics enrichment event for high school students held at the University of Montana. Students attend workshops on topics in mathematics that are not traditionally included in K-12 education. Learning continues over a shared lunch and culminates in a panel discussion where professionals share how knowledge of mathematics is used in their everyday work.

Project Title: St Margaret’s School Math Circles

Project Director: Asia Matthews

Project Summary: The primary goal of this program is to guide students through creative and logical thinking processes while doing mathematics, making art, and exploring quantitative ideas. On an affective level, we want students, whether they struggle or excel with ease in math, to develop a strong growth mindset so they can develop resilience and perseverance when problem solving, and to experience joy when doing mathematics. By exposing female students to female mathematicians and math-related career options, they will feel encouraged to pursue mathematics at the next level, whether that be senior level high school courses or the post-secondary level.

Project Title: Summer Oshkosh Mathematics Academy

Project Director: Eric Kuennen

Project Summary: This proposal is for a third cycle of funding for the Summer Oshkosh Mathematics Academy, a summer math camp program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh for talented middle school students. The grant funds will be used to support two four-day camps, in August 2024 and August 2025, each for approximately 32 students entering grades 6-8.

Project Title: Summer Research in Mathematics and Politics

Project Director: Ismar Volic

Project Summary: Summer Research in Mathematics and Politics for High School Students is an online program organized and run by the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy. The students selected for the program will be engaged in learning and doing research on topics in the intersection of mathematics and politics, such as voting theory, gerrymandering, or quantification of power. Projects would also have a data-driven component. During the six weeks of the program, high school students would meet with mentors and with each other regularly for guided research that would culminate in presentations and project reports. The motivation for the program is rooted in the sort of impactful education and research that bridges gaps between disciplines and serves to empower students to become knowledgeable participants and agents of change in the democratic process.

Project Title: An FDU Math Circle to Extend the Radius of Outreach

Project Director: Mark Farag

Project Summary: The Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) Math Circle is a weekly online exploration of topics in Number Theory and Abstract Algebra by talented and motivated high school students with guidance from a member of the FDU faculty. In exploring these abstract mathematical topics, students learn how to formulate conjectures from well-considered examples, and they gain experience with formulating proofs for or finding counterexamples to those conjectures. Students thereby increase their understanding of what abstract Mathematics is and how it is done. Both organically through the Math Circle sessions and by interactions with guest mathematicians, students are also encouraged to consider the possibility of pursuing Mathematics as a college major and a career path.

Project Title: Stark County Summer Math Academy 2023

Project Director: Aloysius Kasturiarachi

Project Summary: The Stark County Summer 2023 Math Academy is a collaboration between Kent State University at Stark and Stark County high schools. The proposed program is a continuation of the successful inaugural Stark County Summer Math Academy 2022 which was funded by a DMEG grant in 2021. The 1-week summer 2023 academy will provide talented and motivated high school students the opportunity to choose from one of three academies: Advanced Calculus, Data Science, and Explorations in Pure Mathematics. Topics in the Advanced Calculus Academy will include techniques of proof-writing, differential geometry, and 3D printing. The Data Science Academy will focus on introductory coding and modeling of fast changing data. The Explorations in Pure Math Academy will delve into topics in number theory, linear algebra, graph theory, and probability. The purpose of the academy is to attract students from diverse mathematical backgrounds, while being mindful of students from underrepresented minorities, and build their confidence in mathematics. Our overall vision is to be a community of change agents whose collective commitment is to increase diversity and engagement in our discipline with outcomes that align with a growth mindset. Participants will be instructed by three Kent State University faculty members and one Stark County math teacher. Students will be able to explore a variety of topics within their chosen academy through enrichment activities, collaborative work, and a final project.

Project Title: Oglethorpe University Summer Camp in Mathematics: The Mathematics of Secret Messages

Project Director: Mary Garner

Project Summary: The Oglethorpe University Summer Camp in Mathematics: The Mathematics of Secret Messages is for middle school students who are seeking an opportunity to enrich their knowledge of mathematics. The focus of the camp is cryptography. Participants will explore substitution ciphers, public key encryption, and error-correcting codes. In every session of the camp the emphasis will be on engaging the students in activities that require them to code and decode secret messages, thereby experiencing applications of prime numbers, factoring, modular arithmetic, inverse functions, and matrices.

Project Title: Renewal: SMS Math Circles

Project Director: Asia Matthews

Project Summary: In a continued collaboration between Quest University and St. Margaret’s School (both in BC, Canada), we are developing and implementing math workshops and camps for middle-school and high-school students. This will be a year-long mathematics enrichment program for students in grades 5-8 (middle school) and 9-12 (high school) in the 2023-2024 school year. The primary goal of this program is to guide students through the creative side of mathematics. We hope that by exposing female students to female mathematicians and math-related career options, they will feel encouraged to pursue mathematics at the next level. On an affective level, we want students to develop a strong growth mindset and to experience joy when doing mathematics. We will support these students by developing a sense of togetherness and community amongst one another, with their teachers and mentors, and within their families.

Project Title: TexPREP 2023 (at Texas Tech)

Project Director: Jim Brown

Project Summary: TexPREP-Lubbock (Texas Pre-Freshman Engineering Program) is a summer program for sixth through eleventh grade students at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. TexPREP offers a creative and challenging program where students develop lifelong learning skills that enhance their individual success and workforce readiness. They gain the intellectual skills needed to succeed in high school courses, college programs, and careers in engineering, mathematics, and science. They also learn the personal and social skills needed to work cooperatively with others. The classes encourage creativity, curiosity, and a sense of wonder.

Project Title: Math Research Experience for Lowcountry High School Students and Teachers

Project Director: Breeanne Swart

Project Summary: Lowcountry high school students and teachers will join faculty from The Citadel for a week-long camp to solve open problems from The Fibonacci Quarterly and MAA publications. The participants will experience the research process from start to finish including finding open problems, exploring and solving the problems, presenting the results orally, and submitting a written solution to a publication. Daily presentations will provide participants with the opportunity to practice oral presentations skills with a final presentation to parents, teachers, and friends. Throughout the following academic year, participants will have the opportunity to continue to explore problems. The experience will culminate in written and oral presentations at the South Carolina Junior Academy of Sciences annual meeting in March or April.

Project Title: Juneau High School Math Club

Project Director: Andrzej Piotrowski

Project Summary: This project will support weekly meetings of the Math Club for Juneau area high school students (Enigma) with involvement of faculty from the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS). These weekly meetings will focus on preparation for the MAA American Mathematics Competitions. Additionally, funding will support at least one day-long event at UAS where high school students, undergraduate students, teachers, and faculty will work in teams to solve interesting mathematical puzzles.

Project Title: The 13th Math Day at the University of Guam

Project Director: Hideo Nagahashi

Project Summary: The University of Guam, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science organizes Math Day, the annual one day event for high school and middle school students. Math Day cosists of two parts, Quiz Competition and Lecture. In the Quiz Competition, teams from individual schools are asked to solve math problems and trivia questions in front of a live audience present at the event. Teams compete in one of the three categories, Basic Algebra, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus. The second part will be a lecture given by a guest speaker invited from off island. Math Day started in 2008, and has been quite successful encouraging students to study more mathematics continuously.

Project Title: Excellence in Math and Coding Chargers (E=MC2)

Project Director: Yevgeniya Rivers

Project Summary: The Excellence in Math and Coding Chargers (E=MC2) program gives students in grades 7 – 10 an opportunity to learn and apply college-level math in a collaborative and welcoming environment. Embedding topics such as number theory, graph theory, geometry, and statistics into a multi-week project will give students a chance to demonstrate what they have learned to themselves, their peers, and caregivers. Through project-based learning, students will also enhance their oral and written communication skills. Activities and discussions around affective skills such as mindset and self-advocacy will complement their academic experience. Through the facilitation and mentorship of a diverse group of faculty and a TA, the program will help students visualize themselves as future mathematicians.

Project Title: Summer Honors Program Mathematical Connections Class

Project Director: Audrey Malagon

Project Summary: The Summer Honors Program is a two-week accelerated summer school sponsored by Educational Service Unit #11 in Phelps County, Nebraska. This program is designed to expose high ability learners to advanced topics that go beyond the standard curriculum in most rural high schools, guided by instructors who have demonstrated excellence in teaching. Small classes of 10-12 students focus on one subject for the entire two week program, engaged in hands-on active learning and small and large group projects based on student interest and instructor expertise. Evening activities focus on leadership development and community building with like-minded peers. The mathematics class has studied topics including infinity, the mathematics of decisions, probability, and the structure of number systems. At the conclusion of the program, students present some of their work to the community. This grant will support the mathematics class in Summer 2023 to study cryptology guided by Dr. Audrey Malagon from Virginia Wesleyan University.

Project Title: Summer Camp in Board Games and Mathematics

Project Director: Sue Generazzo

Project Summary: Over the last 20 years, there has been a renaissance in board game design resulting in the publication of several complex, systems-based board games, often referred to as Euro-style games. These games are highly strategic and engaging, and underlying many of them is a mathematical structure designed to simulate the characteristics of the desired system. This summer camp in math and board games will introduce high school students to a variety of mathematical concepts, and more generally to the art of mathematical creation, by getting them to analyze and model a select set of Euro-style games. Through a desire to understand who wins and who loses, students will be led to create their own mathematical structures as well as to study and apply existing concepts from probability, graph theory, optimization, and the study of complex systems.

Project Title: An FDU Math Circle to Extend the Radius of Outreach

Project Director: Mark Farag

Project Summary: The Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) Math Circle is a weekly online exploration of topics in Number Theory and Abstract Algebra by talented and motivated high school students with guidance from a member of the FDU faculty. In exploring these abstract mathematical topics, students will learn how to formulate conjectures from well-considered examples, and they will gain experience with formulating proofs for or finding counterexamples to those conjectures. Students will thereby increase their understanding of what abstract Mathematics is and how it is done. Both organically through the Math Circle sessions and by interactions with guest mathematicians, students will also be encouraged to consider the possibility of pursuing Mathematics as a college major and a career path.

Project Title: FGCU Mathletes for Brigh and Talented Middle School Students

Project Director: Menaka Navaratna

Project Summary: Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) Mathletes Circle is a non-profit year-round enrichment program for bright and talented middle school students organized by the Department of Mathematics at FGCU in partnership with Immokalee Middle School. The Mathletes Circle consists of Mathletes Summer Camp, Saturday Mathletes Day sessions during regular semesters and AMC-8 Competitions. The ultimate objective of this program is to strengthen middle school students’ interest in mathematics and provide early experience and exposure to STEM related careers with mathematical foundations.

Project Title: BCAMSC High School Math Research

Project Director: John Golden

Project Summary: Battle Creek Are Math and Science Center is a magnet high school, at which Dr. Kelly DeRango, one of the mathematics teachers, has started a bimonthly math seminar and a new mathematics research class. This grant would provide support for consultation to support high school researchers, speakers for the seminar, and materials to expand opportunities for learners.

Project Title: SMS Math Camps

Project Director: Saloni Dholakia

Project Summary:In a collaboration between Quest University and St. Margaret’s School (both in BC, Canada), we will develop and implement math workshops and camps for middle-school and high-school students. This will be a year-long mathematics enrichment program for students in grades 5-8 (middle school) and 9-12 (high school) in the 2022-2023 school year. The primary goal of this program is to guide students through the creative side of mathematics. We hope that by exposing female students to female mathematicians and math-related career options, they will feel encouraged to pursue mathematics at the next level. On an affective level, we want students to develop a strong growth mindset and to experience joy when doing mathematics. We will support these students by developing a sense of togetherness and community amongst one another, with their teachers and mentors, and within their families.

Project Title: Data Science for Decision Makers at the High School Level

Project Director: Brice Merlin Nguelifack

Project Summary: We will offer a high school level data science course through after school activities and/or through a summer camp. The main goal of this proposal is the incorporation of more STEM courses with an emphasis on critical thinking, communication, creativity and problem-solving. A high school level data science curriculum with a project based units that develop an understanding of data analysis, sampling, correlation/causation, bias and uncertainty, probability modeling with data, making and evaluating data based arguments and the ;power of data in today society.

Project Title: Iowa Junior Academy of Math

Project Director: Mohammad Farajzadeh Tehrani

Project Summary: We plan to create an academy for promoting math enrichment activities in Iowa, selecting and training gifted/enthusiastic middle/high school students, exposing them to mathematics research and applications, and further guiding them to pursue mathematics professionally in the future.

Project Title: OMPR Math Summer Camp

Project Director: Luis Caceres

Project Summary: OMPR SUMMER CAMP caters exclusively to Puerto Rico Middle and High School students, in both public and private schools, and is exclusively merit based, with a very rigorous selection process (4 math Olympiads filters). OMPR SUMMER CAMP is a five days’ camp. The main objective of this summer camp is to offer courses and activities that provide enthusiasm in learning math, introduces important concepts, practices strategies for problem solving and develops abilities of those who may become leaders in the next mathematical and scientific generation.

Project Title: Summer Oshkosh Mathematics Academy

Project Director: Eric Kuennen

Project Summary: This project will fund a summer math camp program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh for talented middle school students. The Summer Oshkosh Mathematics Academy is for students entering grades 6-8 and features student exploration and a creative problem-solving approach to mathematics. Camp participants will see aspects of mathematics and topics that are not typically part of the middle grades curriculum. Our activities will help middle schoolers develop mathematical habits of mind by actually doing mathematics, that is, investigating, experimenting, posing questions, modeling problems, conjecturing, justifying solutions and critiquing the reasoning of others. Our aim is to challenge students while exploring the beauty of mathematics, and provide opportunities to for them to experience mathematics as a creative art, which we hope will encourage them to further their mathematical studies in high school, college, and beyond.

Project Title: Morgantown Math Circle

Project Director: Fang Yang

Project Summary: Morgantown Math Circle (MMC) is an after-school mathematical enrichment program mainly for students from 4-8th grades with extension to 9-12th grades. MMC will establish partnerships with secondary and middle school math teachers to work together to improve the performance of the students in math and science and at the national math competitions such as MATHCOUNTS and to inspire students’ interests and passions in STEM. In addition, the Math Festival at the end of the school year will be hosted to recognize students’ hard work and celebrate their achievements. We will also host a one-week summer camp of various activities including math games for the participants of MMC and students from other areas of WV in the summer of 2023.