Bridging Worlds with Mathematics

      Each year the Association for Women in Mathematics holds an essay contest -- inviting middle school and high school and college students each to interview a math woman and to write about it.  The names of 2025 contest winners -- and links to their essays -- are available here at this link.

     One of my delights as I browsed through the contest results was to find male as well as female essay winners.  Here is a link to "Bridging Worlds through Mathematics"  -- an essay by Alan Zhang of Francis Richmond Middle School, telling of an interview with Alena Erchenko (Dartmouth College), that won first place in the Grades 6-8 contest group.  And this link leads to "Where Dreams Can Take You" -- an essay by Peter Holman of Frances C, Richmond Middle School telling of an interview with Kim Luke (Simbex).

     When I find time to explore X (Twitter) often I enjoy the postings I find by PUNS (@The PunnyWorld).  Here is a mathy pun that I enjoyed recently:   

And I close with a tiny poem of mine (also found on my website -- with several other mathy poems -- at this link).

Good Fortune                 by JoAnne Growney

is good numbers --

the length of a furrow,

the count of years,

the depth of a broken heart,

the cost of camouflage,

the volume of tears.