Each spring the CMC³ Foundation honors one full time California community college student who has investigated a topic or application in mathematics. The selected student gives a 20-minute presentation on their work at the Spring Conference. That student also receives a $500 scholarship, made possible by a generous gift from past CMC³ president Debra Landre.

Submitting a Proposal

Submissions will be accepted through April 7, 2022.

The selection committee will review the proposals and make the final decision as quickly as possible.

Selection criteria will be:

• The applicant must be currently attending a CMC³ Community College.
• The applicant intends to go on to study Mathematics or some other STEM field at a 4 year university.
• The applicant has chosen to present a topic that goes beyond the level of the usual community college curriculum.
• The proposal is presented in an organized, clear, and professional fashion.

The selected speaker will work with their Faculty Mentor to put together their final presentation, and will be rewarded with a scholarship. We look forward to receiving your proposal!

The conference registration is free for all students.

If you would like to be the speaker at the Spring Conference please submit a proposal. Submissions will be accepted until April 7, 2022.

2020 Student Speaker

We continue to be extremely grateful to Debra Landre, the long-time sponsor of the student speaker scholarship at Tahoe. Despite the fact that we were not able to hold the conference, we awarded the speaker scholarship to Sarah Redden, a student at College of the Sequoias, who was preparing a talk on Music Generation with Markov Chains. Sarah Redden is a sophomore at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. She is an electrical engineering major who hopes to work in the Aerospace Industry. She was the CMC³ student poster winner in Monterrey this past fall and was selected to be a NASA Community College Aerospace student last year.

Past Student Speakers