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Increasing outreach activities in the Illinois Geometry Lab Claire Merriman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois Geometry Lab Undergraduate research lab Outreach in the local community What is outreach? We prove a

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Increasing outreach activities in the Illinois Geometry Lab

Claire Merriman

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Illinois Geometry Lab

◮ Undergraduate research lab ◮ Outreach in the local community

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What is outreach?

We prove a glimpse of higher level mathematics and research to the Urbana-Champaign community. What? ◮ Info booths ◮ Field trips and classroom visits ◮ Math carnivals ◮ Summer camp Who? ◮ General public ◮ School groups ◮ Contests and events

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Mathways grant

NSF Grant to increase Merit Scholars participation in the IGL ◮ Course release for postdocs who run 3 semester long projects ◮ Coding boot camp for first time IGL participants ◮ RA for graduate students developing outreach material

◮ Running IGL outreach and Summer Illinois Math Camp ◮ New field trip activities ◮ New math carnival activities ◮ Activities for the Merit Calculus classes

◮ Hire Merit students as assistant instructors at SIM Camp

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Mathways grant

NSF Grant to increase Merit Scholars participation in the IGL ◮ Course release for postdocs who run 3 semester long projects ◮ Coding boot camp for first time IGL participants ◮ RA for graduate students developing outreach material

◮ Running IGL outreach and Summer Illinois Math Camp ◮ New field trip activities ◮ New math carnival activities ◮ Activities for the Merit Calculus classes

◮ Hire Merit students as assistant instructors at SIM Camp

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Mathways grant

NSF Grant to increase Merit Scholars participation in the IGL ◮ Course release for postdocs who run 3 semester long projects ◮ Coding boot camp for first time IGL participants ◮ RA for graduate students developing outreach material

◮ Running IGL outreach and Summer Illinois Math Camp ◮ New field trip activities ◮ New math carnival activities ◮ Activities for the Merit Calculus classes

◮ Hire Merit students as assistant instructors at SIM Camp

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Mathways grant

NSF Grant to increase Merit Scholars participation in the IGL ◮ Course release for postdocs who run 3 semester long projects ◮ Coding boot camp for first time IGL participants ◮ RA for graduate students developing outreach material

◮ Running IGL outreach and Summer Illinois Math Camp ◮ New field trip activities ◮ New math carnival activities ◮ Activities for the Merit Calculus classes

◮ Hire Merit students as assistant instructors at SIM Camp

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Mathways grant

NSF Grant to increase Merit Scholars participation in the IGL ◮ Course release for postdocs who run 3 semester long projects ◮ Coding boot camp for first time IGL participants ◮ RA for graduate students developing outreach material

◮ Running IGL outreach and Summer Illinois Math Camp ◮ New field trip activities ◮ New math carnival activities ◮ Activities for the Merit Calculus classes

◮ Hire Merit students as assistant instructors at SIM Camp

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SIM Camp-Structure

◮ Two teams each with two graduate instructors and two undergraduate assistant instructors ◮ Each graduate student proposes, designs, and teaches one class ◮ Undergraduates work on one course per camp ◮ Graduate students teach undergraduates the course material ◮ Teams work together on lesson planning and teaching

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Expansion

Summer 2015 ◮ 23 rising 9th − 12th grade students ◮ Two graduate student run courses, one day about chemistry Summer 2016 ◮ 21 rising 8th and 9th grade students ◮ 19 rising 9th − 12th grade students ◮ Hired undergraduate assistant instructors Summer 2017 ◮ 23 rising 8th and 9th grade students ◮ 29 rising 9th − 12th grade students Summer 2018 ◮ 27 rising 8th and 9th grade students ◮ 28 rising 9th and 10th grade students ◮ 25 rising 10th − 12th grade students

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Middle School

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High School

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Undergraduate Outreach Club

Goals ◮ Engage our community through math ◮ Develop outreach materials ◮ Enhance community aspect in our department

◮ Gain friends through attending trainings, events ◮ Working with other campus RSO?s

◮ Grow to better serve local schools

◮ With more participants, make a larger impact

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Undergraduate Outreach Club

Membership ◮ Monthly meetings ◮ One training session per semester

◮ Gain familiarity with the activities we ◮ Get to know fellow members

◮ One outreach event per semester

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IGL research project

Developing Exciting Outreach Material ◮ Formalize lesson plan for Platonic Solids Activity ◮ Develop 3-4 new activities (some using existing material) ◮ Explore mathematical concepts that could become exciting

utreach materials

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Platonic Solids Activity

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Thank you

◮ Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grant, Mathematical Association of America ◮ National Science Foundation, Grant DMS-1449269 University of Illinois: ◮ Champaign-Urbana Community FabLab ◮ Department of Mathematics ◮ Public Engagement Grant, Office of Public Engagement ◮ Association for Women in Mathematics Student Chapter ◮ Illinois Geometry Lab