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How would you do at a BEAM trivia night?
What does it look like to combine puzzles, trivia, and a bit of math? BEAM's Slightly-Mathy Trivia Nights do just that, challenging guests to work together with students on fun, weird, challenging puzzles. If you want a taste of what that means, here are four rounds from our 2018 event. Scroll carefully as we’ve included the problems and then the answers on a next page. (Warning: Round 4 is hard!)
For Round 1, answer these questions first, and then click on the Round 1 link below to match each answer with a mathy symbol or drawing for double points!
What ocean borders on the US, Canada, Russia, Greenland, and Norway—but not Ghana or Namibia?
What is the last name of a famous tennis player whose first name is Bjorn?
What is the word for an old leather or metal glove?
What word means “placed more bullets into my gun”?
What public company has the highest market capitalization?
What programming language that is a dialect of Lisp is also a word for a devious plan?
In baseball, a line blank is what happens when the batter hits the ball hard with a low arc. What word fits in for the blank?
Thanks to all the BEAM students, supporters, and staff who joined us for trivia nights in Los Angeles and New York. Please join us next year! Sign up for our mailing list to get announcements about events in 2019.
BEAM's End-of-Year Newsletter is Here!
Yesterday, BEAM's quarterly newsletter arrived in the inboxes of all our subscribers! The newsletter featured:
A look at the very first semester of BEAM College Support.
The announcement of our Year End π Matching Campaign
A recap of recent events at BEAM, including our annual Yale Splash field trip and Trivia Events in NYC and LA
"What We're Reading (and Watching)"
Information on our job openings for summer staff
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BEAM's Post-Summer Newsletter is Here!
Today, BEAM's quarterly newsletter arrived in the inboxes of all our subscribers! The newsletter featured:
Information about the first summer of BEAM Los Angeles
An invite to join BEAM for an upcoming fast-paced night of slightly-mathy trivia, 10/29 in NYC and 11/13 in LA!
What our alumni did this summer
"What We're Reading"
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BEAM's quarterly newsletter is here!
"I learned that I can afford college.": What BEAM students discovered this summer
It's time for another quarterly newsletter!
Check out BEAM's end-of-summer updates and make sure to sign up so the next newsletter comes straight to your inbox.
Applying to High School: "It wasn't this hard when I was in 8th grade!"
It's that time again! Every quarter, we recap recent news and upcoming events for our followers. The most recent newsletter featured information about how 8th grade BEAM students apply to high school, an invitation to our upcoming trivia night, our inaugural "what we're reading section", and a recap of our recent essay writing workshop (because the growth mindset applies to writing just as much as it does to math!).
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"Not all math be solved in 5 minutes or less.": What BEAM's students said about the summer
Are you on BEAM's mailing list? Every quarter, we recap recent news and upcoming events for our followers. The most recent newsletter featured information about our programs for 6th, 7th, 10th, and 11th graders, as well as an invitation to join us for our annual upscale pizza and math trivia night on Tuesday, November 15, 2016.
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Trivia Night with Supporters, Students, and Staff
BEAM's first annual math trivia night was a hit with supporters, students, and staff.
On Tuesday, December 1, BEAM supporters, students, and staff joined together for a night of math trivia, fancy pizza, and fun, supporting BEAM's 2016 program.
After a dinner of pizza, pasta, salad, and meatballs, guests joined teams (each a mix of adults and students) to answer questions about some of BEAM's favorite topics: math, of course, but also sports, board games, pop music, and more!
After four rounds of trivia, the top three teams were invited to the Countdown Round.
With two correct answers provided by Rashik, (Mercury and Venus don't have moons; Colorado is one of two states with perfectly rectangular borders), the winning team was "Yay, Winners!" It turns out that was a great choice of team name.
Thanks to everyone for making the event such a great night, including our trivia hosts, Big Quiz Thing, and the venue, Gran Morsi. We will be back next year for another wonderful night; if you missed it this time, join our mailing list to hear about the next event!
