New summer math program to prep students for chemistry

By Raphael Richardson

The Scientific-Math Academy will help students interested in chemistry improve their math skills needed to take majorspecific classes.

The original Math Academy program, free for all El Camino students over the summer or winter sessions, is designed to help students gain the skills to pass their math classes.

The free course lasts for four weeks, from July 17 to Aug. 10. Students who complete the course can get a free graphing calculator from the college. However, additional El Camino faculty were interested in the program.

“There was … interest brought by the chemistry faculty that some of our students are lacking the mathematical skills to do their labs,” Dean of Mathematical Sciences Marlow Lemons said.

Lemons said that they thought it was a great idea to be able to add to the Math Academy, by creating a Scientific-Math Academy.

Chemistry professor Soshanna Potter generated the initial interest from the chemistry faculty.

“When I heard about the program that … the math department is running in one of our STEM success meetings, I got excited about [it], ‘could we offer a similar academy for

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