Beginning with the summer of 1993 and continuing on an annual basis, the Vermont State Mathematics Coalition in partnership with the University of Vermont and a consortium of sponsors from business, industry, and other organizations in Vermont, sponsored a one week residential Summer Enrichment Institute for thirty of the most talented secondary students in the state. Students in this unique program, held on the University of Vermont campus, have participated in a series of courses and seminars that took them far beyond their experience in high school mathematics and science courses, and engaged them in applications of mathematics and computing to a wide range of scientific and technological endeavors. In previous summers major topics included modern astronomy, dynamical systems and mathematical biology, operations research and decision theory, and statistical simulation. In shorter seminars students were exposed to the mathematics and engineering of pattern recognition, and to probabilistic reasoning. In most courses there has been a heavy emphasis on the use of the computer in mathematical and statistical modeling.

Major changes took place in 2005 in the Mathematics, Science, and Technology High School Summer Enrichment Institute which had been sponsored by the Vermont State Mathematics Coalition for the past thirteen years. Under its new title, "Mathematical Sciences", it has become one of the components of the Governor's Institute and was added to seven existing programs in other disciplines.

In addition to students who fulfill an application process and are selected by a committee, winners of state and national mathematics contests and the Talent Search of the Vermont State Mathematics Coalition will be chosen by Talent Search Co-directors Tony Trono and Dr. Ted Marsden as has been done in the past for all participants. Since this will be a part of the Governor's Institute, tuition will be charged ($350 per student in 2006). The Coalition is planning to provide scholarship funds for the students it selects so that their attendance would be cost-free as has been past practice.

The Institute is directed by Tony Trono, retired chair of mathematics at Burlington High School and Jeff Dinitz, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vermont. For more information contact one of the directors:

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	Latest Update: May 30, 2006 by David Hathaway