Celebrate Math-Women -- AWM Essay Contest

 Entry deadline is coming soon -- February 1, 2026.

Students are invited to interview a math-woman
and write about it -- 
and submit the essay to the Association for Women in Mathematics
by February 1, 2026.

Guidelines (middle-school, high school, college submissions) are here.

Previous winning essays are available here (follow the link and scroll down).  

I offer below a few mathy-poetic lines from Nobel-Prize winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012).  Szymborska's complete poem is available at this link. 

    A Contribution to Statistics   by Wislawa Szymborska 

            Out of every hundred people

                    those who always know better:
                       -- fifty-two,    

                    doubting every step
                        -- nearly all the rest . . .                  read more here.

Szymborska is one of my favorite poets -- and this link leads to previous inclusions of her mathy work in this blog.