Bridge to Calculus – Empowering Boston Public High School Students

Empowering Boston public high school students to excel in advanced math through innovative teaching in pre-calculus and calculus, project-based learning, and enrichment activities, we aim to build confidence, expand access to opportunities, and prepare students for academic and professional success in a diverse and inclusive environment Link to Artifact: View…

Engineering Project Management for Community Partners across Boston

This artifact represents the diverse community partnerships this semester, with students working with NEACEFE, Franklin Cummings Tech, Bridge to Calculus, and the Afrimerican Culture Initiative. With NEACEFE, students updated their website to increase engagement. For FC Tech, students researched top employers to guide students on salaries and benefits. Students supported the Bridge to Calculus, program…

East Boston Emergency Preparedness and Response

Students created a presentation outlining research they conducted through interviews, the SCALE-UP East Boston Residential Survey, and organization websites and social media. Their goal was to partner with Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) to research the strength of emergency preparedness in East Boston. Link to Artifact 1: ViewLink to Artifact 2: View…

Engineering Project Management S-L Projects

Creator(s): Maggie SextonDwyer Course: EMGT5220 Engineering Project Management These slides summarize the projects that service-learning groups worked on throughout the semester with our community partners. Each team utilized project management skills that they learned in class to support their community partner with projects, events, and/or tasks for the organization….

Bridge to Calculus

Creator(s): James D’Elia, Tehani Cabour, McKenna Quam Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization Seeing the long-lasting effects discrepancies in public education have on the overarching racial and social issues of a city, Dr. Case decided to found Bridge to Calculus (BTC), a program which prepares students from underserved high schools in Boston for AP Calculus….

Bridge to Calculus: Data

Creators: Samuel Sullivan, sullivan.samu@northeastern.edu; James Hon, Tyler Fernandes, Andrew Han, Jackson Wolfe, Zoe Daunt Course: EMGT5220 Engineering Project Management This presentation discusses the team’s work with Bridge to Calculus which included organizing and analyzing existing data, collecting feedback from students and instructors at BTC events, and starting a database with BTC alumni….

Bridge to Calculus: Communications Team Project

Creators: Prathamesh Kale, Saurabh Shashikant Borse, Ryan Shum, and Carlo Montesa Course: Engineering Project Management This presentation describes the team’s work with BTC throughout the semester to create an advertising and promotion plan for the program, establish the bridge between the alumnus and the program, promote programs and events on different social media platforms update…

Bridge to Calculus: Operations

Creators: Samantha Cashton; Adewunmi Ade-Oyetayo; Ethan He; Karan Pasgounda Patil; Divyang Bhatnagar Course: EMGT5220 Engineering Project Management This presentation discusses the team’s work with Bridge to Calculus throughout the semester to assist with communication by acting as a liaison between teams and the community partner, improve documentation for knowledge transfer in case of hierarchical change,…

Demographic Breakdown of Students Taking AP Calculus in the Boston Area

Creators: Hongfeng Zhi, Dhruv Matta, & Maxwell Sanchez Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) We are using data visualization to solve a problem: What is the demographic breakdown of students taking AP Calculus in the Boston area and what are their results?…

Bridge to Calculus Attendance and Recommendation Data

Creators: Corey Dockser, Minho Sero, Nikita Demidov Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) This artifact is a series of three interactive charts which visualize data from Bridge to Calculus, a tutoring program offered by the university’s math department for students from local schools to receive tutoring in calculus. We used attendance and recommendation data from…