Overview

Greetings! Just a few months ago, I announced the return of the Wolfram Student Ambassador Program, and in that short time, nine new ambassadors have joined the program. We’re thrilled our cohort includes alums of the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program (WELP) and the Wolfram High School Summer Camp along with outstanding undergrad, grad and PhD student. Over the summer our ambassadors were leading workshops and working on Wolfram Language projects. The goal of this newsletter is to inform and highlight our ambassadors and the projects they are working on. I will be highlighting three outstanding new ambassadors, where they are from and their favorite Wolfram Language functions. Without further ado, let’s check out some of our ambassadors.

Rushank Goyal

High School/Pre-university
School location:
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Bhopal
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Favorite function:
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Table[expr,n] generates a list of n copies of expr. ​Table[expr,{i,
i
max
}] generates a list of the values of expr when i runs from 1 to
i
max
. ​Table[expr,{i,
i
min
,
i
max
}] starts with i=
i
min
. ​Table[expr,{i,
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min
,
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max
,di}] uses steps di. ​Table[expr,{i,{
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1
,
i
2
,…}}] uses the successive values
i
1
​,
i
2
​, ….​Table[expr,{i,
i
min
,
i
max
},{j,
j
min
,
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max
},…] gives a nested list. The list associated with i is outermost.
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System`Table
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Our first highlight is Rushank Goyal, a high-school student living in Bhopal, India. Rushank interacted with the Wolfram Language at the 2021 Wolfram High School Summer Camp creating visualizations and analyzing plant root network characteristics. He’s dived into the Wolfram Language and wants to use machine learning techniques in the medical and biology applications. He also is exploring the use of Wolfram Language tools to identify maladies in MRI scans, like pneumonia in the lungs. He wants to bring computation to the fields of medicine, biology and social sciences. Rushank enjoys the Wolfram Language’s ease of use, along with it’s simple and robust data visualization features. In the future, Rushank hopes to attend a US college to study computational biology, focusing on genomics! As a Wolfram Student Ambassador, he enjoys hosting workshops for students that provide an introduction into the Wolfram Language’s machine learning tools. Right now, he’s currently planning a hackathon focused on esoteric languages, called Paradigm Conference 2022.

Samishka Natajarin

High School/Pre-university
School location:
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Cupertino
CITY
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Favorite function:
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MandelbrotSetPlot[{
z
min
,
z
max
}] plots the portion of the Mandelbrot set inside the rectangle with corners
z
min
and
z
max
.​MandelbrotSetPlot[] plots the Mandelbrot set over a default rectangle.
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AlignmentPointCenter…(46 total)
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{Protected,ReadProtected}
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System`MandelbrotSetPlot
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Sam was a participant at the Wolfram High School Summer Camp and a TA at the Wolfram Middle School Summer Camp. She became a Wolfram Student Ambassador just a few months ago; however, her other projects and work completed in the Wolfram Language make her an outstanding student and user! Living in the Bay Area in California, her interests are in the fields of math, biology, and music; she enjoys playing the piano. At Wolfram Summer Camp 2021, she wrote about and explored different aspects of counter machines. Her most recent work is creating a function to identify DNA’s constituting amino acid chains from a DNA string. Feel free to read about her project here, and try the function yourself at: https://resources.wolframcloud.com/FunctionRepository/resources/DNAtoAminoAcid. Right now Sam is working on fractal and complex analysis, as well as combining math with music.
Currently Rushank and Sam are reaching out to young and innovative users of Wolfram Language, specifically High School and early college students. They want to highlight outstanding users just beginning their coding journeys highlighting interesting and cool projects they are working or completed. If you’re interested in talking to them, please reach out to zachs@wolfram.com.

Theodore Mollano

Williams College, Massachusetts
School location:
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Williams College
UNIVERSITY
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Favorite function:
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PrimeQ[n] yields True if n is a prime number, and yields False otherwise.
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GaussianIntegersFalse
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{Listable,Protected}
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System`PrimeQ
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Theodore is from New Hampshire and is currently attending Williams College studying mathematics. His interests are varying, including logic, computer science and foreign languages! Outside of school, he likes to ski. Theodore joined the Wolfram Student Ambassador Program to improve his Wolfram Language skills. He has begun using the Wolfram Language in class to do numerical analysis. He just took some time to learn data analysis techniques and visualizations to explore optimal raiding techniques in Clash of Clans. He just completed the Wolfram Summer School; feel free to check out his project on graph tiling and constrained network systems here. After WSS Theodore is getting ready for the semester and looking to explore Newton interpolating polynomials and more!

In Review

We have many ambassadors just joining the Wolfram Student Ambassador Program, and we are ready to accept more too! Ambassadors will have plenty of opportunities to learn and build their Wolfram Language skills and show off their projects and interests. If you’re interested in joining, please fill out this application. If you are faculty, feel free to nominate or recommend students for the program by emailing zachs@wolfram.com. Thank you!