讲座一、AoPS 数学学校介绍（8月16号星期日上午 10点）
讲座二、LHS化学奥赛金牌得主讲座（8月22号星期六晚8-9:30）
讲座三、8月28日周五晚7:30-9:00
讲座一、AoPS 数学学校介绍（8月16号星期日上午 10点）
刚刚落户波士顿地区的AoPS数学学校的Campus Director Fiona Young将于8月16号星期日上午 10点给大家讲解AoPS的教学理念和课程内容，http://lexington.aopsacademy.org/。她也会分享她申请进入哈佛、在哈佛数学系学习并取得优异成绩的经验和心得。此讲座为Zoom线上讲座，请感兴趣的波士顿地区家长请扫码入群（如果超过人数，请加CALex管理员入群）。谢谢！
CALex管理员
To the Chinese and Chinese-American community of Lexington and the greater Boston area,
It’s great to meet you all! My name is Fiona Young, and I’m currently serving as the Campus Director of the new Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) Academy Lexington. You can find information about it here: https://lexington.aopsacademy.org/. I’m delighted and honored to be invited to speak with you about the new Academy as well as my experiences as a young Chinese-American woman in math and education.
A little background about myself: I am the child of Chinese immigrants; my mother is from Tianjin and attended Nankai University, and my father is from Shandong and studied computer science at NYU. My grandfather is an optics professor at Nankai University and my aunt too is an economics professor there. Needless to say, I grew up around educators and am incredibly passionate about math and math education. My parents live in Stamford, Connecticut, and I attended school in the nearby town, Greenwich. My mother founded and leads the Mandarin Chinese foreign language course series at Greenwich High School.
I was a part of the math team at Greenwich High School, leading my teammates as the first female captain in the school’s history to multiple Connecticut state victories. Then, I attended Harvard University, graduating in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, earning high honors in my department. Post-graduation, I was a PhD student for two years at Cornell funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP), where I studied pure math, more specifically, combinatorics. I loved math research, but as an extrovert, I missed people. I missed working with students. So I decided to take a gap year to work with AoPS as the Campus Director, and that’s how I ended up here!
Prior to ending up in mathematics, I wanted to go into education. I’ve tutored and taught kids aged K-12, and at Cornell, for multiple semesters, I was a graduate student instructor for Calculus 1. At Harvard, I was fortunate to win two Derek Bok teaching awards for my TA work. I’ve worked with programs like CTY, Generation Teach Boston, among others, and in 2016 I founded HSYLC Hangzhou, a summer program for gifted Chinese students. You can read more about that program here (perhaps you’ve already heard of it): http://www.hsylc.org/ I also love to write, winning a few writing competitions in my high school years. The students that I tutor in writing have been featured in publications like the Stepping Stones Magazine.I’m excited for the opportunity to talk about our educational philosophy and course offerings at AoPS (why I joined the company in the first place!) as well as describe a bit about my background as a Chinese-American woman in STEM, what I think helped me get into Harvard and Cornell, and why I think pure mathematics is a beautiful subject that all young students should be excited about! I’m really honored that you have invited me to lead this seminar and I want to do everything I can to help the Chinese-American community succeed.
Sincerely,
Fiona Young
Campus Director, Lexington
讲座二、LHS化学奥赛金牌得主讲座（8月22号星期六晚8-9:30）
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