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+ 2024

+ 2023

+ 2022

+ 2021

  • Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving and the Art of Problem Solving Initiative (AoPSI)(BEAM's parent organization) is featured in " Richard Rusczyk’s Worldwide Math Camp," by Ingfei Chen in The New Yorker (online, November 12, 2021). The article includes a brief discussion of BEAM's work. Richard serves as the president of AoPSI's board.
  • Scott Kominers featured a BEAM logic puzzle (adapted from BEAM Slightly Mathy Puzzles and Trivia Night) in his Bloomberg Opinion column "Kominer's Conundrums."
  • BEAM Discovery student Hope was featured in "Tribes Get Creative in Teaching Tradition and Community" by Stephanie Woodard in YES! Magazine. Hope was one of five Navajo-reservation sixth graders to attend BEAM Discovery LA in 2021 through a partnership with the Navajo Nation Math Circles.
  • Sylvia Ortega, BEAM's High School Programs Coordinator, gave a presentation entitled, "Re-envisioning Advocacy and Responsibility beyond the Classroom: The Power of Providing Holistic Support for Systemically Marginalized Students," at the 2021 National Partnership for Educational Access (NPEA) Virtual Conference (co-presented with Ferni Cruz, Breakthrough New York).
  • Sylvia Ortega, BEAM’s High School Programs Coordinator, participated in a panel discussion, “A Safe Place to Play: Reclaiming Public Spaces to Strengthen Community,” sponsored by the College of Public Health, University of Iowa.
  • Elyse Mitchell, BEAM's Middle School Program Coordinator, and BEAM 8th grader Nevaeha are quoted in “NYC high school applications are due soon. Will pandemic changes help or hurt school diversity efforts?” by Christina Veiga in Chalkbeat, February 12, 2021.

+ 2020

  • BEAM is featured in Forbes in Julia Brodsky's article "How Disadvantaged Students Can Get Into Top STEM Programs."
  • BEAM is featured in Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil by Anna Weltman, which explores the hidden powers of math that shape us, influencing everything from our sense of justice to our perception of beauty. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2020.
  • Dan Zaharopol, BEAM founder and CEO, contributed an article to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (the major journal of the main professional organization of research mathematicians in the US) on “Lessons learned from the Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics program.”
  • Ruthi Hortsch, BEAM’s Senior Program Manager, shared her love of Faltings’s theorem on the podcast “My Favorite Theorem,” hosted by Evelyn Lamb and Kevin Knudson.
  • Sylvia Ortega, BEAM's High School Programs Coordinator, gave a presentation entitled “Re-envisioning Advocacy and Responsibility: Holistic Support for Systemically Marginalized Students,” at the National Scholarship Providers Association Conference (co-presented with Ferni Cruz, Breakthrough New York).
  • Dr. Javier Ronquillo Rivera, Math and Pedagogy Lead, and Ramya Ramaswamy, Founding Programs Manager, National Programs, presented “Creating a Virtual BEAM Summer: A Summer of Math and Memes,” at the Julia Robinson Math Festival/Journal of Math Circles Panel: Math Circles in Times of Physical Distancing Conference.
  • Ruthi Hortsch, Senior Program Manager, spoke on a Career Panel organized by the Association for Women in Mathematics, Syracuse University Chapter.
  • BEAM co-organized a session at the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings titled “Outreach Strategies for Reaching Underrepresented Students at the Pre-College Level” designed to help bring more mathematicians into this work.
  • BEAM Junior Faculty member, Emilee Cardin, spoke about her work with BEAM in AMS journal article "GROWing a Graduate Cohort," by Evelyn Lamb.

+ 2019

+ 2018

  • BEAM was featured in the December 2018 “Giving Guide” from Crain’s New York Business. An accompanying article shares BEAM’s role in reducing income inequality by investing in students.
  • Richard Rusczyk, Board Chair for the Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc., discusses math enrichment, BEAM, and more on the American Enterprise Institute podcast, “The Report Card with Nat Malkus,” aired in November 2018.
  • Dr. Dan May, a BEAM Summer Away faculty member, gave a talk for Black Hills State University's "Geek Speak" lecture series, entitled "Bridging the Gap: Diversity in the STEM Pipeline." He was also interviewed on South Dakota Public Broadcasting's program In the Moment about his experiences teaching at BEAM.
  • An August 2018 article in “FutureEd” details the educational excellence gap and identifies BEAM as a promising program to address the gaps at the highest levels of developmental mathematics.
  • Our own Emmanuel Ruiz (10th grade) shared his reactions to the high school admissions process in a June 2018 article in Chalkbeat NY. The article also quotes his advisor, Lynn Cartwright-Punnett, BEAM's Senior Director of Programs.
  • Dr. Maria Klawe and Dr. Mohamed Omar, both of Harvey Mudd College, describe BEAM as “a successful model for helping students achieve in math and pursue higher education” in this April 2018 article in Forbes on diversifying math enrichment programs.
  • In spring 2018, BEAM founder and the Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc. Executive Director, Daniel Zaharopol, was recognized with the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award by the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics. Dan and BEAM were subsequently featured in the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences alumni newsletter, the University of Illinois News-Gazette, and also by the Big Ten Network.
  • Richard Rusczyk, founder of the Art of Problem Solving and President of the Board for the Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc., talks about the impetus for his support of BEAM in this interview from Education Week.
  • In March 2018, Daniel Zaharopol gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study.

+ 2017

+ 2016

+ 2015

  • Chalkbeat New York profiled BEAM in November 2015.
  • The National Partnership for Educational Access featured BEAM in the Member Spotlight in fall 2015.

+ 2014 and earlier

Please note, all references from before October 2015 use our former name (the Summer Program in Mathematical Problem Solving, or SPMPS).

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