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- MC2’s first Julia Robinson Math Festival was held on June 10th, 2017.
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- The festival featured 16 tables in Payton’s gym, each with a separate math activity.
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- Many tables were led by PhD students in math. Nathan Lopez is earning his PhD at UIC, and is a leader at the Pilsen Math Circle.
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- Dr. Eugenia Cheng led one table and helped students explore building polyhedra.
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- Abhinav Gandhi is a community member and data scientist who volunteered to lead Table 4!
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- Many students created Archimedean solids like the ever popular bucky ball/truncated icosahedron.
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- Edgar Bering and Ellie Dannenberg are doctoral students in math at UIC who have taught math circles for many years.
