Future Proofing Our Children | Pawtucket, RI | 2:00 pm, Apr 5

Sat Apr 05 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm UTC-04:00

Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island | Pawtucket

Daily Challenge with Po-Shen Loh
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Future Proofing Our Children | Pawtucket, RI | 2:00 pm, Apr 5
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This event, featuring the esteemed scholar Prof. Po-Shen Loh, is for parents of K–12 students who care about their children's future.
About this Event

Event Description

As AI advances at shocking speed, what is the future of humanity? How should people develop skills that will still be useful in a world filled with automation? The speaker, Carnegie Mellon math professor Po-Shen Loh, traveled to 100 cities last year, speaking with (and learning from) 250 audiences on this topic, on a tour which was even covered by the Wall Street Journal. His perspective combines insight from having served as the national coach of the USA Math Olympiad team for a decade, together with his firsthand experience inventing new solutions for large-scale real-world problems from pandemic control to problem-solving education. In this talk, he will share his latest recommendations on how to lean into what makes us human, how to navigate the future landscape of education (including college), and how to learn how to solve unfamiliar problems. Many of his recommendations are quite different from how students and parents currently approach life. To substantiate this advice, he will also share his own story of how he used these principles to invent some of the real-world solutions mentioned above.




Speaker Info

Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor working across mathematics, education, and healthcare. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way for people to learn challenging math live online from brilliant people to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest.

He has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the USA Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was the coach of Carnegie Mellon University’s math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. He featured in or co-created videos totaling over 21 million YouTube views.

Po-Shen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Caltech in 2004, graduating with the highest GPA in his class. He received a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2005, where he was supported by a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship. He continued his studies at Princeton, supported by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, where he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the end of 2009, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University ever since.



Acknowledgment

This event is organized by Star Chinese School.



Event Location

Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island

333 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02860


Agenda

🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Arrival
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Keynote Speech: Future-Proofing Our Children
Host: Prof. Po-Shen Loh
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Q&A
Host: Prof. Po-Shen Loh

Info: An open and dynamic Q&A session for parents and students on any topic.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island, 333 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket, United States

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