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Our December GBM wrapped up AWM’s programming for fall 2025. We reserved the meeting as a social hour – no announcements or administrative business – to talk about our semesters and share more about ourselves over cocoa and holiday-themed cookies.

Happy Thanksgiving, all! On the Monday before Thanksgiving, the AWM joined Women+ in Robotics Engineering (WiRE), Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (WAGMiP), and other women affinity groups for a Thanksgiving social gathering with pie, hot cocoa, and cider. Participants were invited to bring a pie to share, either store-bought or homemade; if homemade, the…

On Thursday, November 13, the STEM Education Center, partnering with numerous organizations at and around WPI (including AWM!), hosted a free community screening and conversation of Counted Out, a powerful documentary that interrogates the way math is taught in schools and explores how math shapes everything from economic opportunity to democracy. From the Counted Out…

On Thursday, the AWM chapter met for our November GBM. We reflected on our October activities (including our fantastic outreach event with BCB Club and second collaboration with SIAM) and looked ahead to November events. In particular, we highlighted the upcoming STEM Education Center-hosted screening of Counted Out, a documentary that interrogates the way math…

On Friday, October 24, AWM joined with the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Club at WPI to co-host a mathematical biology-inspired exhibit for Family STEM Night at the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester, an annual event organized as part of Mass STEM Week. The AWM/BCB exhibit was built around a DNA-inspired bracelet/keychain activity. For this…

Family STEM Night, part of Mass STEM Week, is a free event hosted by the Worcester Boys & Girls Club and the Central MA STEM Network (CMSN) Ecosystem where children, youth, families, and the community can explore the wonders of STEM through hands-on activities, exhibits, and demonstrations presented by colleges, organizations, and businesses. This year,…

Have two players create a 4×4 grid of squares (sixteen squares total). Split the grid into four 2×2 sub-grids (four squares in each). To start, Player 1 places one of the numbers {1, 2, 3, 4} in any of the sixteen squares. Next, Player 2 can place one of the numbers {1, 2, 3, 4}…