MS Student Wins National Math Essay Contest

Congratulations to Farren Stainton ’24 for winning First Place in the Grades 6-8 category of the 2019 Association for Women in Mathematics’s Essay Contest.

The Association had 307 entries across the three categories (Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, and Undergraduate), from 46 states, the District of Columbia, and three other countries. Each contestant had to interview a woman working in a mathematical career and write a biographical essay about her life.

For her essay, “My Teacher Makes the Irrational Perfectly Rational”, Farren interviewed  TSA’s math teacher Sandy Thorne.  Her essay will be published in the May/June issue of the AWM newsletter.

What a wonderful way to recognize two of Farren’s strengths— writing and math!