{"id":5712139,"date":"2023-12-19T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T03:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/?p=5712139"},"modified":"2024-03-01T18:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T04:34:54","slug":"stimulating-stem-education-on-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/stimulating-stem-education-on-maui\/","title":{"rendered":"Stimulating STEM education on Maui"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giving back to Maui keiki was at the heart of an educational trip to the Valley Isle by University of\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi\u00a0at M\u0101noa\u00a0Department of Mathematics<\/a>\u00a0faculty members and graduate students.<\/p>\n

\"people
Jack Johnson playing a game with a young participant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Monique Chyba, Associate Professor Yuriy Mileyko and Assistant Professor Chuang Xu, with graduate students Alan Tong and Sam Glickman, visited N\u0101pili Noho, a community based emergency distribution hub at N\u0101pili Park that is helping those affected by the devastating Lahaina wildfire. They conducted math activities during a Christmas carnival-style event held on December 16.<\/p>\n

\"people
Ninth and 10th graders learning about graph theory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to their visit to West Maui, the\u00a0UH<\/abbr>\u00a0M\u0101noa team interacted with about 40 high school students (grades 9\u201311) at\u00a0UH<\/abbr>\u00a0Maui College. The students are part of\u00a0TRiO<\/abbr>\u00a0Upward Bound<\/a>, an engaging educational program that prepares low-income, first-generation high school students for college. The Maui students learned about graph theory, which is the study of graphs, that has cutting-edge applications such as social and traffic networks, optimal routing for emergency response, and molecular epidemiology.<\/p>\n

\"people
Assistant Professor Chuang Xu teaching Upward Bound students about the Fleury\u2019s algorithm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

This effort is part of a\u00a0RAPID<\/abbr>\u00a0grant from the National Science Foundation on\u00a0trauma-informed\u00a0STEM<\/abbr>\u00a0education<\/a>. Chyba and Mileyko are co-principal investigators on the grant<\/p>\n

More at UH News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giving back to Maui keiki was at the heart of an educational trip to the Valley Isle by University of\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi\u00a0at M\u0101noa\u00a0Department of Mathematics\u00a0faculty members and graduate students. Jack Johnson playing a game with a young participant. Professor Monique Chyba, Associate Professor Yuriy Mileyko and Assistant Professor Chuang Xu, with graduate students Alan Tong and Sam … Continue reading Stimulating STEM education on Maui<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5712141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5712139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5712139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712140,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712139\/revisions\/5712140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5712141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}