Institution: University of South Carolina

Reporting Year: 2018-2019

Advisor: Ronda Sanders

Advisor's Email Address: sanders@math.sc.edu

Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: Yes - Frank Thorne (thorne@math.sc.edu)

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: President: Thomas Elgin (tmelgin@email.sc.edu) Vice President: Julia Sultz (jsultz@email.sc.edu) Treasurer: Noemi Glaeser (nglaeser@email.sc.edu) Secretary: Emily Cunningham (elc3@email.sc.edu)

Chapter Website: http://people.math.sc.edu/pme/

Number of New Members: 15

Number of Continuing Members: 21

Activities: We had Dr. James Sellers, Undergraduate Director of Mathematics at Penn State University, give a talk on "Cool Results Involving Fibonacci Numbers and Compositions". We had Robert Vandermolen, one of our graduate students, give a talk on "The Geometry of Mind Reading". Both talks were very well received with more than 40 students attending each of them.

Do any of your chapter members plan to attend or present at the PME National Meeting this year? No.

Do you have any news about current students or recent graduations? For example, scholarships or other awards, acceptances to graduate school, paper presentations at conferences, etc.
No.

If you were awarded a PME Lectureship, Conference, or Prize Grant within the past year, please briefly describe the results.
Yes. We used the funds to help buy prizes for our Integration Bee. We had more than 60 students compete on 14 teams of up to 4 students each to solve integrals. We gave away door prizes and overall prizes for students on the first, second, and third place teams.