The Minnesota State Fair puts on an event to celebrate the beginning of summer (Kickoff to Summer) each Memorial Day weekend, and for the first time this year, MathHappens was on the scene. We brought Geometiles and an instant camera in order to build a 3D Shape Museum. We brought multi-colored spheres and frames for building pyramids and other shapes.
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Kickoff to Summer in Minnesota
Feb 24th: MathHappens’ Big Busy Weekend!
On February 24th MathHappens’ four locations were open to the public in Autin, TX at the Nature and Science Center, and Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex, in Mankato, MN at the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota and in Albuquerque, NM at Explora! Matt Hertel manages the space at the Nature and Science Center and Millennium and paused a moment to record
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Buda Library STEAMfest
165 people of all ages were at the Buda Public Library on January 24 to celebrate Science, Technology, Art and Mathematics. We had something for everyone at our tables. Huston-Tillotson student and MathHappens intern Niela Williams did a great job facilitating and letting the community know about the free Math Room at ANSC. We found out that the librarians in
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Joint Mathematics Meeting 2024
Christopher Danielson and I headed to SF to help represent Math Communities in the American Institute of Mathematics booth. We had a great time! We gave away hundreds of Curry Triangle Paradoxes, had dozens of conversations about remote internships and programs and shared some of our favorite models and then gave them away in a raffle. Here are some of
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2023 MathFest in Tampa Team: Lauren Siegel, Matt Hertel, Naila Hajiyeva, and Stefany Espinoza
We are really excited about MathFest 2023! MathHappens Foundation has a booth — please come and see us! We are giving away a variety of models that will not only be fun for you, but we hope will inspire you to have fun with others talking about interesting math. The whole team in Austin has pitched in to prepare for
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Its open! MathHappens @ The Millenium Youth Entertainment Complex
What and who is at the Millenium Math Area? MathHappens Team: Alexa Hernandez-Lopez, Jaiden Suda, Kriti Magar, and Dayanara Renteria launched this space with mentor Matt Hertel. All our staff are taking spots in the rotation. We also feature a carpet to play with a Jumbo Blocks Jr. set, a Julia Robinson Math Festival maze mat, optical illusions for photos,
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Field Trip: Austin High Biomimicry Cross Curricular Program
We had the pleasure of providing 3 of 6 rotations for this field trip for 150 students to the Austin Nature and Science Center. Students are learning about biomimicry. That is looking to strategies and physical formations in nature to develop ideas for engineering and invention in the man made world. Station 1: Voronoi Regions in turtle shells, dragonfly wings,
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MathHappens @ Los Angeles Maker Faire
April 1st, 2023 We staffed a booth at Maker Faire Los Angeles. We brought some of our favorite models, activities and giveaways and we were also able to bring the brand new Hat Tile or Mono Tile newly discovered by an amateur mathematician. Intern Ella Basken made the trip and did an outstanding job representing with the team. Read Ella’s
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