Calculating Success

Calculating Success

Global Teaching Project Participants Kimberly Bailey and Lilly Mayerhoff work at finding the height of a flag pole.
Photo by Logan Kirkland

July 26, 2018

Kimberly Bailey, left, a high school student from Marks, and Lilly Mayerhoff, right, a high school student from Meridian, work together to calculate the height of the flag pole on Mississippi State's drill field during an Advanced Placement physics preparatory academy at MSU. The two-week residential program is part of a Global Teaching Project-led initiative to bring high-level courses to students in rural Mississippi school districts.