ON CAMPUS
Left to right: Annie Lin (Class of 2016), Lydia Li (Class of 2016), Elizabeth Zhou (Class of 2017), Elizabeth Guo (Class of 2018), Vivian Zhou (Class of 2016), and Hallie Gu (Class of 2016)
Math Prize for Girls at MIT Seven Hockaday students participated in the 7th annual Math Prize for Girls competition held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The goal of the competition is to encourage young women with exceptional potential to become the mathematical and scientific leaders of tomorrow. Each year, students must apply, and if they earn a certain qualifying score on the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), then the students are invited to attend. There were a total of 270 girls from 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The girls had 2.5 hours to complete a twentyquestion examination. Hockaday was one of the most represented schools. The
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students who attended included Class of 2016 students Hallie (Qinyi) Gu, Jasmine (Mumin) Jin, Lydia (Yanlin) Li, Annie (Zhen) Lin, and Vivian Zhou; Elizabeth Zhou (Class of 2017); and Elizabeth Guo (Class of 2018). While at the competition, the girls attended an MIT info session with the Assistant Director of Admissions, had a campus tour of MIT, and visited with three Hockaday alumnae: Snow Zhou ’15, Mary Zhong ’15, and Mary Clare Beytagh ’14.
Laura Roberts ’12 Named Rhodes Scholar Laura Roberts ’12 was named one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars for 2015. For more than 110 years, Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses
Laura Roberts ’12, Rhodes Scholar for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England and possibly allow funding for four years if needed. The recipients were selected from 869 applicants at 316 schools throughout the United States and will join international recipients at the University of Oxford in England in October 2016.