This summer was unlike any other, and we were so excited to welcome nearly 300 BEAM students to our in-person programs! While we are tremendously proud of the work we did in 2020 and 2021 to run summer programs online, our experience this summer reaffirmed that in-person programs create invaluable experiences and memories for our students.

We are immensely proud to announce the recipients of the inaugural Jane Street College Scholarships, awarded to BEAM students in partnership with Jane Street Capital.

Jane Street College Scholarships will allow BEAM students to attend great-fit colleges with strong STEM course offerings even when those schools do not meet 100% of financial need.

Summer is back in-person... and we can't contain our excitement! Neither can our students. Check out some of our favorite photos from BEAM Discovery and BEAM Summer Away in Los Angeles and New York City!

To recap from the newsletter:

You are eating a special candy bar. You and a friend each take turns eating squares of blue, pink, and green candy starting from the left and moving right. You can bite off as many squares as you want, so long as they’re all the same color of candy. So, for example, your first move could be to bite off 1, 2, 3, or 4 squares. The winner is the person who eats the green square of candy (which is extra delicious!)…

Entry Points, BEAM’s newest program, combines the same kind of high-quality math programming, and community and mathematical identity building for students as our local programs in New York City and Los Angeles. It is designed, also like our local programs, to help students discover the beauty of mathematics and develop real expertise in mathematical problem solving.

In the newsletter, we shared one of Dan’s Challenge Problems to BEAM Pathway students…