RE Log - Fall 2022

36 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2022 Student News Girls are for STEM RE students invited to STEM program at the University of Miami National Merit Semifinalists from Ransom Everglades The following seniors earned National Merit Semifinalist recognition based on their performance on the PSAT; all will contend for $2,500 National Merit Scholarships that are issued next spring: Arjun Badwal ’23, Ryan Berkshire ’23, Leon Fein ’23, Theodore Ma ’23, Nico Maynulet ’23, Dylan Miner ’23, Loren Pearson ’23, Adrian Stone Perez ’23, Alexis Tie-Shue ’23, Marco Zhao ’23 . Nine girls from Ransom Everglades accepted invitations from the University of Miami to join an inaugural “Girls are for STEM” program designed to expose high-performing students to modern abstract math, prepare them for upper-level math courses and allow them opportunities to network with other talented young female students. Chloe Alfonso ’24, Valentina Herrera Ponce de Leon ’24, Skye McPhillips ’24, Dylan Miner ’23, Sofia Paraoulaki de Miranda ’23 , Victoria Paraoulaki de Miranda ’24, Lauren Scott ’24, Maya Shaked ’24 and Stephanie Wallen ’24 are traveling to the UM campus weekly this fall to take Introduction to Abstract Algebra or Introduction to Probability Theory. Their work has been overseen by advisor Karen Key and STEM Department Chair Doug Heller ’80 . They were among a group of students nominated by Ransom Everglades faculty to participate in the program, which also includes students fromMiami Palmetto Senior High and Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart. The program is led by visiting professor Mina Teicher, the director of the Advancing Women in Mathematics across the Americas (WIMSA) program, a major initiative of Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA). Robert Stephen Cantrell, the chair of the department of mathematics at UM, and Ludmil Katzarkov, a UMmath professor, serve as director and co-director of IMSA, respectively.