Here is a list of outreach projects I am involved/have been involved with.
Pequeño Instituto de Matemáticas (PIM): Organizer (2022-present).
ESTALMAT Madrid: Teacher (2022 - present).
Semana de la Ciencia: Speaker and creator of the workshop "¿Quedará plano al doblarse? (Origami y Matemáticas)". November 2021.
Madison Math Circle: Student Organizer, Spring 2016-Spring 2019.
Mentor during the Spring 2017 semester:
The two girls I mentored did a project about epidemics.
Mentor during the Fall 2015 semester:
The three girls I mentored did a project about knots, and then learned facts about polyhedra by doing modular origami.
Waunakee Library STEM day: April 21, 2018. The Madison Math Circle hosted a table there about games (Nim, Set and Chomp).
Saturday Science at Discovery: On August 6, 2016, the theme of this monthly program was "Secrets of Math". The Madison Math Circle (MMC) organized the booth "Game Busters" for it, where the student organizers of the MMC (Juliette Bruce, Ryan Julian, Soumya Sankar and myself) explained and played three different games (Nim, Set and Chomp) with the kids who attended and their families. Here is the worksheet that I made for it, specifically for the game of Chomp, along with solutions. More information about what we did, and solutions to the worksheets for Nim and Set (by Ryan Julian and Juliette Bruce respectively), can be found here.
Mega Math Meet: Grader in the 2015 and 2016 editions.
Taller de Talento Matemático: The TTM is a non-profitable association that organizes free classes every other Friday for high school kids that are interested in Mathematics, with no admission requirements. It is organized by some professors from the University of Zaragoza and a group of local high school teachers. I gave 8 lectures for them every year of my undergraduate studies (Fall 2008-Spring 2013). All of them but one were problem-solving classes aimed to help students do better in math contests, particularly in the Regional round of the Spanish Mathematical Olympiad. The remaining one was a talk about the “Fold and one cut problem”, where I taught them the straight skeleton method and everyone folded and cut (with one cut) an easy shape. This association also organizes free preparation classes for the three students who qualify to go to the national round of the Spanish Mathematical Olympiad through the regional round in Aragón since the academic year 2009/2010, and I gave lectures there too every year of my undergraduate studies since then.
Matgazine: Matgazine was Mathematics journal made by and for undergraduate students in Spain (thus written in Spanish). It was sold for just 1 €, and that money was destined to help pay the printing costs of the magazine, so it was not profitable. It started in the academic year 2010/2011 in the Complutense University of Madrid, with a group of really enthusiastic students. The goal of this magazine was to fill the gap between undergraduate studies and what’s going on in the mathematical world. In issue number 2 (November 2011), I helped as a referee and as the representative in Zaragoza, distributing Matgazine outside Madrid. In issues 3 (June 2012) and 4 (March 2013) I also became part of the editorial board, in charge of the interviews section. I interviewed Fields Medalist Efim Zelmanov (U. California San Diego) for issue number 3 when he attended a conference in Zaragoza, and former Research Director of the Clay Mathematics Institute David Ellwood for issue number 4, when he attended a conference in Madrid. I also wrote the article that appeared on the cover of issue number 4 about the “Fold and one cut problem”.
Matgazine was mentioned in the official gazette of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society, as well as in other important Spanish Mathematics blogs, such as ICMAT’s blog, or Gaussianos, the most prominent mathematics outreach blog in Spanish. Matgazine started small, but it grew over time, printing over 1000 copies of some issues.
ISSN: 2174-503 X
Immersion Week in Science: This activity is organized every year by the School of Science of the University of Zaragoza, and it is aimed at high school students who want to know more about what scientists do there. In the 2013 edition, I was a research tutor for a total of 20 hours.
“Los 10 retos del Doctor Teo Rema” (The 10 challenges of Doctor Theo Rem): This was an outreach activity aimed at middle school kids, organized by the University Institute of Math and Applications (IUMA) of the University of Zaragoza and Ibercaja Foundation in February 2013. I was an instructor there, and we tried to show the kids that math actually appears in real life and that it can be fun to use it to try to solve everyday problems. Kids there had to think in groups about problems such as the bridges of Königsberg , making mosaics, or games with winning strategies, and they had a good time doing math outside the classroom.
Mathematical challenges of the newspaper “El País”: El País is the most widely read newspaper in Spain, and every week for 40 weeks in 2011 they proposed one problem to their readers in a video on their website to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME). This was a way to get people interested in Mathematics, and they gave away books as prices to one reader drawn randomly among the ones who sent in correct solutions each week. I wrote the script and proposed the challenge of week number 32, which was explained in this video by Sofía Nieto (solutions in this other video), a mathematician who is also a known actress in Spain.
RSME-IMAGINARY in Zaragoza: IMAGINARY is an interactive traveling exhibition by the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach created for the Year of Mathematics 2008 in Germany. The exhibition was in Zaragoza in September and October of 2011, and I was an instructor there, explaining it to the visitors.