Promys Foundation

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“1.in may 2020, the 2020 breakout fellowship to promys, the 6th year of the fellowship, was awarded to tati kong of medford, massachusetts. Terence tao, richard taylor, and jacob lurie, recipients of the inaugural breakthrough prizes in mathematics, very generously created the breakout fellowship to promys. The breakout fellowship is a full scholarship to promys for a mathematically talented student who might not otherwise be able to attend. With the goal of creating a fully funded breakout fellowship to promys endowment, the promys alum community was invited in december 2014 to match the very generous donation of the breakthrough mathematicians. Thanks to the generosity and vision of all the donors, this endowment goal was reached in march 2015. The future of the breakout fellowships to promys is now assured: there will be a breakout fellow in every promys cohort. 2. The tara and jasubhai mehta fellowships to promys are for mathematically talented low-income students in india and are funded by nicholas nash & phalgun raju, avi & sandra nash, the indira foundation and morph.org, the mehta fellowship sponsors. Each mehta fellowship covers all costs for participation in promys (including room and board plus travel when the program is run in person). The mehta fellowships were established in 2015 as a pilot program for a planned new promys program for students in india. Due to the global pandemic, the launch of the promys india was postponed, and the mehta fellowships were extended through 2020 and then 2021. Promys was delighted to welcome twenty-one mehta fellows to the online 2020 bridge program: eight first-year mehta fellows, three returning mehta fellows, four junior counselors and six mehta counselors including one head counselor. 3. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, promys for teachers (pft) ran in a virtual format during summer 2020: a three-week "morning math" program based on the probability and games curriculum developed by park city mathematics institute (pcmi) and promys for teachers alumni and a five-week curriculum design independent study for returning teachers. There were 47 teacher participants in promys for teachers 2020 and 10 teacher counselors plus faculty. Participants logged in from across the usa and two alumni logged in from russia and the united arab emirates. During the 2019-2020 school year, promys teachers were invited to attend three full-day workshops offered jointly by education development center (edc) in waltham and boston university's department of mathematics. These seminars are designed to help teachers "unpack" the pedagogical approaches used in promys to enrich the mathematical experience in their own classrooms. Another important goal of the workshops is to establish an ongoing professional network of teachers, mathematics educators, and research mathematicians. The promys foundation's 2020 grant to promys for teachers supports teacher tuition and stipends for teacher counselors, table leaders, and the pft director. Pft is exceptional in immersing secondary teachers in rigorous exploratory mathematics and for being offered free to teachers. 4. Thanks to the generosity and vision of a family foundation, the yongren fellowships to promys were established in 2017 to enable mathematically talented low-income students in china to participate in promys at no cost to their families. Since the online promys 2020 bridge program was largely structured for returning students, there was no first-year yongren fellow in 2020. Qianyun zhou was the 2020 returning yongren fellow. She was a rising high school senior in shenzhen, china. 6.promys is grateful to the american mathematical society (ams) epsilon fund for its support for promys 2020 including for need-based financial aid. As part of this award, the student joshua park was awarded the ky and yu-fen fan scholarship.”