21st CMS-UPEI-AARMS Regional Math Camp

For more than 20 years, the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS), UPEI has hosted a Math Camp for students in grades 10 and 11 from PEI high schools. The Math Camp is the SMCS’s primary outreach effort. Its goals are to give some of PEI’s best students an opportunity to broaden their mathematical horizons beyond what they see in their course work, and to encourage them to continue their math studies at university. It is held for a weekend in May (where the Friday is a PD day for high school students) and sees a group of approximately 20-25 students attend campus. They participate in many math-related activities, including group problem solving, math relays, math trivia and faculty sessions on various mathematical topics. The students’ feedback to the camp has always been very positive, with most of the students planning to major in math/science at the post-secondary level.