Girls Talk Math at the University of Maryland runs largely on passion. Sarah Cassie Burnett, with assistance from Cara Peters, founded this summer program for high school girls two years ago to broaden participation and mentoring in the field of mathematics. Burnett and Peters are Ph.D. students in the university’s Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation program.
The Maryland site was modeled after the program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Then graduate students Francesca Bernardi and Katrina Morgan established it there in 2015, to build a curriculum that addressed issues of persistence, equity, and representation.
Sophomore year is when many college students begin to feel confident about campus life and the classes they’re taking. Tanay Wakhare was confident enough to start teaching one.
During Wakhare’s freshman year, he heard then-student Ishaan Parikh (B.S. ’19, computer science) talk about his efforts to launch the university’s Student Initiated Courses (STICs) program and wanted to learn more about the program, which allows students to design and teach for-credit courses with a faculty member’s guidance.
Read more: Senior Tanay Wakhare is Both the Student and the Teacher
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