Last month we concluded another successful group of MathHappens Remote internships. We had 4 students participating from UCLA, NC State, Texas Woman’s University, and Queen’s University in Toronto. At our headquarters in Austin we rely on interns to help with our mission and everyday tasks. Interns design and make new models, attend local events, and spend time assembling models to
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MathHappens offers remote internship experiences to students who do not live near our offices in Austin. Interns are sent a kit in the mail and the goal is for them to learn digital fabrication of math models (usually using a laser cutter or 3D printer), design and make a model, and host an outreach event showcasing their model(s). Emma Starkman,
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This summer, 5 interns participated in MathHappens projects remotely from Las Vegas, the Chicago area, Knox County, IL, and Lake County, IL. In September, we started our fall cohort with 4 interns in Irving, TX, Edmond, OK, Knoxville,TN, and Appleton, WI. We have interns who are studying or have studied: math, math education, business, data science, economics, computer science, and
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This summer, four students from Texas State University and the Breakthrough Central Texas program, Alexa Hernandez-Lopez (Biology), Jaiden Suda (Marketing), Dayanara Renteria (Biology), and Kriti Magar (Nursing), joined MathHappens for a summer internship program. Over the course of the summer, these students had the opportunity to engage in multiple aspects of the MathHappens internship experience. Aspects of the internship included,
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Cynthia Torres took a lot of initiative in her internship. She overcame some challenges finding a maker space and working with new software. She made a quantity of seed of life necklaces and hosted an outreach table at her local (North Carolina) Farmers Market. Alex Nail from University of Alabama was very creative with her Corel challenge and designed a
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Riley is participating in the MathHappens Foundation 2022 remote internship program. Internships are posted with Parker Dewey where students from all over the United States can access a range of micro-internships. Our remote internship program (Program Sequence here) includes a maker kit, making several MathHappens Projects and completing an outreach assignment. Work is very independent so initiative, persistence and adaptation
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The first project is a custom nametag! For summer 2022 MathHappens Foundation is sponsoring an internship for math majors and others interested in making math more accessible to engage with a makerspace by making math models. We worked with Parker-Dewey, a facilitator of micro internships to find students from all over the US interested in this project. We created a
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The University of Texas and MathHappens Foundation participated in the first international day of Mathematics. Check out the video contributions from Dr. Jennifer Austin (inside the main video at minute 3 and Ximena Garcia featured video.
Ximena made a video clip about Mathematics in the ISBN system for the International Day of Mathematics and you can make one too! The deadline is Feb 28. And here’s a link in case you are interested in knowing more.
We had lots of fun taking our math activities to International High School. The premise: About 150 students went on a field trip while all the other students were taking their STAAR test. However, the field trip was only about a half-day. So our job was to bring math activities to give the students something to do while they spent
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