+ General Information

BEAM Summer Away is a summer program run by Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics, and the beginning of BEAM's nine years of support. We aim to create a life-changing experience for all the students that attend. We expose them to mathematics that they've never dreamed of before. They join a community of peers, perhaps for the first time, all interested in mathematics, and we'll supplement that social environment with activities, field trips, and more.

After the summer, we support them through college graduation, providing them with the resources and enrichment opportunities needed to successfully pursue careers in math, science and engineering.

The dates are:

• June 20 - July 16, 2024 for Southern California.
• July 4 - July, 31 2024 for New York.

+ Counselor Responsibilities

As counselors, it is your job to create the unique social environment at the program and also to provide critical support for the academics. Your responsibilities will include:

• Making everyone feel welcome and watching out for their happiness at camp.
• Assisting classes by working with students individually and in small groups.
• Running a hall meeting every other night with the students living on your hall.
• Running weekday and weekend activities (including large program events, like the Talent Show or Field Day) and supervising field trips.
• Above all, being a role model to inspire the students.

TAing at BEAM

Part of your responsibilities will be to TA a course each week, assisting the instructor of a week-long course. TAs should be able to answer not just the "how?" but "why?" of mathematical problems, and be able to talk about how math is really used. Some courses at BEAM recently have been:

• Number Theory with Proofs
• Graph Theory
• Cryptography
• Infinity
• Combinatorics: Count without Counting
• Mosaics and Symmetry
• Projective Planes
• Coding and Information Theory

You don't have to have seen all of the material already (although familiarity with graph theory, number theory, and abstract algebra is a plus), but we expect TAs to be strong enough mathematically to keep up in classes like these.

+ Logistics

All counselors will have a group of students that they get to know well throughout the program; these are the students whose hall you supervise.

Counselor Schedule

Most class days follow the following schedule. Each counselor will be on duty for 2 of the 3 academic blocks and 1 of the two activities blocks each day; counselors are also on duty for half of mornings, and half of evenings.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Schedule

Saturday Schedule

Sundays and Mondays are our weekend; they will be spent supervising field trips during the day.

You will be able to express your preferred time off, but the residential nature of the program means that the hours you need to be "on" will vary depending on program needs. That said, you can expect to have ample off-duty throughout the day.

+ Additional Details

• The time commitment is 4 weeks.
• The compensation is $18/hour. We will also provide room, full board, laundry, and travel stipend.
• In addition to your salary, room, board and a travel stipend are provided.

Other Staff

In addition to the instructors, there will be:

• A Site Director.
• 8 Counselors.
• The Director of Student Life, who leads the counselors and oversees non-academic activities.
• 1 on-call nurse.
• Guidance Counselor (who support student adjustment to the environment and lives in the dorm with the students).