My name is Eric Utay and I am the founder of Math for the Future. I am seventeen years old and am a senior at the Collegiate School for Boys on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Math has been one of my passions all of my life. From an early age something attracted me to numbers, causing me to want to do my older brother’s math homework. Math began to take a deeper importance in my life in high school when I was exposed to an incredible math teacher, Deborah Foley, who is my advisor in school and on this project. She showed me what I could do with that attraction to math, the amazing doors it has the ability to open. Since then, my love for math has only flourished.
In my junior year I joined a program called the Interschool Leadership Fellows. The program took twelve students from different independent schools in New York City and brought them together to become leaders. The interschool community felt that the schools could be more integrated into the surrounding community, and so the program was born. Each student, after taking classes in leadership, would create a project that civically engaged his or her school with the community. Immediately, I knew that my project would be involved with math.
After talking with teachers and people in the program, I soon had a rough idea of what my project would be – to host lectures to stimulate interest in math. Through speaking with other people involved in the math community such as Jim Simons from Euclidean Capital and Meghan Groome from New York Academy of Sciences, I refined my project into the idea I have today on this website.
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