Institution: University of South Carolina

Reporting Year: 2017-2018

Advisor: Ronda Sanders

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

Has There Been a Change in Chapter Advisor During the Past Year?: No

Permanent Faculty Correspondent: 

Permanent Faculty Correspondent's Email Address: 

Officers: President - Thomas Elgin [tmelgin@email.sc.edu]‎ Vice President - Annalise Bowen [abowen@email.sc.edu] Treasurer/Secretary - Noemi Glaeser [nglaeser@email.sc.edu]

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

Number of New Members: 6

Number of Continuing Members: 25

Activities: We have had a number of great talks this year! Dr. Aaron Dutle, a research computer scientist at NASA, spoke to students about Old Mathematics in New Aircraft and the use of compact position reporting as part of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast protocol for aircraft communication. Dr. Charles Cavalier, an analytical consultant for SAS Global Hosting and US Professional Services, spoke to students about the field of Advanced Analytics. Brad Llewellyn, a data scientist at Valorem, spoke to students about data science and how to become a data scientist.

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.
We proudly hosted our largest ever Integration Bee. More than 75 students worked together in groups of 4 to prove who had the best integration skills. We actually had to move some students to a second room to accommodate the crowd. Funds from national PME, the USC Department of Mathematics, and the USC Honors college provided pizza, door prizes, and top prizes for our students. This was a great event, and we look forward to continue to grow our participation!