Many Michigan Math PhD students have found rewarding summer work as teachers at MathCamp, a summer math enrichment program for super-mathy kids.
This includes current students Will Dana and Lara Du, as well as the current Assistant Director of Math Camp, Kevin Carde. Kevin joined the staff at Math Camp in 2011, immediately upon completing his PhD in combinatorics under the direction of Sergey Fomin, because he had enjoyed teaching there so much as a graduate student.
Canada/USA Mathcamp is hiring grad students now as Mentors for the 2020 summer session!
When: July 1 to August 13, 2020
Where: Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont
Compensation: $5,000 stipend, plus room and board for six weeks and travel expenses
Application Deadline: January 31, 2020
This summer, we invite you to:
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Teach your favorite mathematical ideas in an inspiring, immersive atmosphere
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Be a friend and mentor to 120 marvelous kids
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Connect with genuinely interesting colleagues
Canada/USA Mathcamp is a summer program for talented students, ages 13‑18, from all over the world. At Mathcamp, students bond with a true intellectual peer group and explore college- and graduate-level topics in math. At the heart of the summer staff are the “Mentors”: a corps of grad students who serve in a hybrid role as instructors and camp counselors.
Teaching at Mathcamp is an opportunity to share what interests you most with a deeply engaged audience. There is no set curriculum, so—with the guidance of experienced teachers, but with full autonomy—you design your own classes, freely choosing both subject and style. You can teach an introduction to Topology, an intense study of Cluster Algebras, a seminar on Ancient Greek mathematics – or all of the above, a new topic each week. And, most gratifying: your students will be excited to dive as deep into a topic as you’ll take them, and voluntarily and enthusiastically will work on problem sets you assign.
Outside of the classroom, working at Mathcamp is a flexible, creative role. Mentors cultivate the rich life at camp by planning activities, setting camp policy, and serving as residential counselors. After the academic day, your time is largely your own, to share your hobbies with campers, to jump into a board game, or just to take a quiet evening for yourself.
After the summer, you will find yourself connected with a network of fellow mathematicians (both inside and outside of academia) who are innovative and compassionate. We continue to support one another in the off-season, and like campers, many of us return year after year to the program: in the last decade, 75% of our new mentors came back the very next summer.
Diversity and equity: We are committed to making Mathcamp a welcoming and inclusive workplace. Our student body is approximately 47% girls, 1% non-binary students, and 52% boys, and represents a broad cross-section of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, queerness, neurodiversity, and more. We aim to hire a staff that mirrors the diversity of our student body and we strongly encourage applications from women and underrepresented communities.
For more information on the position and how to apply, visit www.mathcamp.org/mentor.
