The Queen’s College of Guyana Alumni Association New York (QCAANY) on Friday concluded its fourth annual ‘Queen’s College Summer Math Institute (QCSMI), which benefitted students entering third and fourth form at the city’s top five secondary schools.
The two-week camp, which ran from July 29th until August 9th at Queen’s College, saw the participation of students from Queen’s College, Bishops’ High School, St Rose’s High School, St Joseph High School and St Stanislaus College.
According to a press release from the QCAANY, the objectives of the camp were to attract the students to mathematical sciences and motivate them to excel in Math. Its purpose was also to make students and their parents aware of careers in the mathematics field.
The camp was led by Mathematician Dr. Cleveland Waddell, a Queen’s College alumnus. The programme saw the students going on field trips to the Hydrometeorological Service at Timehri, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards and Demerara Distillers Limited, with the intention of seeing the real world application of mathematics.