Gain insight into the ‘non-boring’ world of opportunities in science and mathematics

Have you ever wondered what went into building the iPod, a new skateboard design, creating the clothes we wear or producing the food we eat? What about the cars we drive or how we heat and cool our homes? What’s behind the things we use every day — even something as simple as a paper clip?

Without a doubt, math and science played an important role in their development.
Futures Take Flight is a Web site designed to share with you the exciting opportunities and activities in mathematics and science from those who have been awarded an Alworth Scholarship. Our students are leaders in changing the world — whether it’s participating in a dinosaur dig in Montana, designing the ATVs and snowmobiles of the future, conducting research on a device that will quickly increase or decrease body core temperature, bringing sustainable design in Architecture to the forefront, leading an aviation team at Cirrus Design Corporation, designing a structure the size of a Mini Cooper to land on Mars, constructing mathematical models helping to control the spread of diseases, or studying the health of coral reefs in Taiwan. Alworth scholarship recipients have volunteered to share their stories to inspire middle and high school students to work hard, dream big and become a leader, too.

You’re just one click away from discovering many exciting opportunities available to you in mathematics and science – and finding out that careers in these fields are anything but boring! Perhaps someday, you, too, could be awarded an Alworth Scholarship and watch your “Future Take Flight.”