Arie Ogranovich is a current senior at Glenbrook North High School. He has been involved in math competitions since 6th grade, attending and leading teams at national competitions including the Princeton University Mathematics Competition and the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. During high school, he has consistently placed among the top 15 scorers for his grade at the Illinois Math Team State Championship, and attended multiple math camps, including the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS). He hopes to share a love for math and a sense of exploration with younger students, and cultivate strength in the North Shore math community starting from an early age.

Daria recently graduated from Roycemore School in Evanston, IL. With her grandma being a math teacher and her entire family being very science/math inclined, Daria began her STEM education early on and mostly at home. She learned to love math through fun puzzles and games, so her impression of how beautiful math could be did not change through years of computations in math classes in school. Daria competed in competitions such as Math Kangaroo and AMC8 during her elementary and middle school years and learned to love the fun math olympiad problems that had you thinking about how to solve them for days on end. When she was in high school, she realized that not too many people around her enjoy math as much as she does, so Daria began investigating why that is. This led to her founding a math club for lower and middle schoolers at Roycemore to try and excite the new generation to enjoy math and learn to problem solve and think. This has become a huge passion for Daria and she hopes to continue finding and testing out methods and strategies that make kids like math.

Britney recently graduated from Glenbrook North after having grown up in Northbrook, attending St. Norbert School, Wescott Elementary School and Maple Middle School. Having been interested in math and science from a young age, she found that school curriculums were sorely lacking in those areas, focusing too much on rote memorization and standardized test preparation rather than understanding concepts and learning how to think critically. This led her into competition math in middle school, eventually going on to earn the distinction of qualifying for the American Invitational Math Exam, competing for the Chicago All Star Math Team, and leading GBN’s math team to three consecutive state wins. Britney is extremely excited to work with the Northbrook community and beyond to enrich the mathematical and logical education of students everywhere.

Catherine is a graduated senior from Glenbrook North High School and will be attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall to study Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She has been on her school’s math team throughout middle school and high school, and has participated in many worldwide math contests such as the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament and the Princeton University Mathematics Competition. She was the co-president of the Glenbrook North Math Team and received recognition multiple times at the state level. She hopes to introduce children to competition math at an earlier age and spread the love of math in her community.