Final Recap: Week ⌈π⌉ of MathPath 2021

For our final Saturday activity, students were grouped into teams to solve a Movie Mystery, where they were assigned characters and had to use math and their deductive skills to get clues and discover which character was the saboteur! The last round of Sunday activities included a screening of Hidden Figures, a puzzle hunt made by counselor Hannah, an Ultimate Spelling Bee, and a final chess tournament.

Dr. Cornelia Van Cott taught Metrics on the Plane this week.
 
In the fourth week of MathPath, Dr. Lidia Mrad joined the faculty to teach Single Variable Optimization, and Prof B, Dr. Z, and Dr. V all returned to each teach one last breakout for the 2021 program. Silas Johnson taught Special Relativity and Math and Music, both of which had students buzzing about the mind-blowing content of their breakouts! After Dr. Kent's incredible history plenaries (Kentaries!), she taught Game Theory in the afternoon this week. Dr. Cornelia Van Cott taught two breakouts again this week, Integer Hokey Pokey and Metrics on the Plane, as did Professor Pudwell, who offered Generating Functions & Sequences and Counting Permutations. Senior Staff Assistant Maddy taught Rigidity Theory, where students made their own frameworks out of cardboard and paper fasteners, and counselors Hannah and Maciej each taught courses. 

Counselor Maciej led MathPathers in the Geoguessr activity, where they earned a streak of guessing 45 countries correctly in a row!

Counselors and students continued to enjoy playing challenging word games like BombParty and the daily crossword, as well as strategy-based games like Codenames, chess, and 7 Wonders. Counselor Ella organized an extension of the "Math is Hard" discussion activity that highlighted marginalized identities in mathematics and allyship. 

Students, counselor, and staff solving a crossword as a team... and being a little bit silly.

The final guest plenary, Closing Ceremonies, and the highly anticipated talent show brought our 20th consecutive year (and second remote session) of MathPath to a close. While we will miss all the mathematical learning and fun we had along the way, we're already looking forward to reuniting next summer, hopefully in person! Though the remote experience is quite different from in-person, we are grateful that this platform enabled counselors, faculty, and students to join MathPath 2021 from all around the world! We are thankful for everyone who contributed to making this year so special and worthwhile.

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