Summer Illinois Math (SIM) Camp is a week-long mathday camp for middle and high school students hosted bythe Mathematics Department at the University of Illinois atUrbana–Champaign. SIM Camp was started by a cohort ofgraduate students (and one postdoc) in Summer 2015, andas we enter its fifth summer, it remains graduate studentrun. Why would a group of mathematics PhD studentspursue such an endeavor? We were inspired by our ownexperiences: the magical moments when we glimpsed realresearch-level mathematics, years before choosing to pursuegraduate school.
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