In 1997, the program was expanded to offer courses throughout the year. These classes begin in January and some are repeated throughout the spring. The summer program begins in June. Participants in the program have been accepted to prestigious universities around the country, including Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thanks to Robert Sachs, Mathematical Sciences Department chair, they were able to continue offering it.
Ordinary courses tend to focus just on the material covered in the textbook.
With his experience and expertise, Dr. Sachs was able to enrich the course by showing how what we were studying related to other subjects, such as fluid dynamics and optics. Every Monday night, math professor Daniele Struppa, CAS dean, conducts an important off-campus meeting. Since 1995, Struppa has spent a few hours every week working with a group of 5 to 12 teenage girls at the Girls Probation House, a residential alternative program run by the Fairfax County Juvenile Court System. He helps with homework and assignments as directed by their teacher. This year, he is working on Algebra I with five of the students.