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M-PACT Schedule:

All sessions take place 3PM - 4PM in room 16 at the Smythe Academy, at 700 Dos Rios Street in Sacramento.


FALL 2017

  • Thursday, October 5: Towers of Hanoi. Instructors: Elena Fuchs

  • Thursday, October 12: The game of Set. Instructors: Ali Heydari and Hans Oberschelp

  • Thursday, October 19: Exploding Dots. Instructor: Elena Fuchs

  • Thursday, October 26: The Monty Hall problem: win a goat or a sportscar. Instructors: Elena Fuchs and Steffen Docken

  • Thursday, November 2: Mind benders from What Is The Name Of This Book? Instructors: Elena Fuchs and Brett Hatfield

  • Thursday, November 9 Playing with knots. Instructors: Ali Heydari and Kevin Lamb

  • Thursday, November 30: How to lay down a tile floor. Instructors: Steffen Docken, Doug Kubota, and Maria Trnkova

  • Thursday, December 7: The game of Set, part II. Instructors: Ali Heydari, Doug Kubota, Hans Oberschelp

WINTER 2018

  • Thursday, January 18: Logic puzzles: liars, knights, and Alice in the Forest of Forgetfulness. Instructors: Elena Fuchs and Carter Johnson

  • Thursday, January 25: Games with heaps. Instructors: Ali Heydari, Alina Gataullina, Bryan Lim, Wencin Poh

  • Thursday, February 1: How to lay down a tile floor. Instructors: Steffen Docken, Doug Kubota, and Maria Trnkova

  • Thursday, February 8: Encrypting and decrypting secret messages. Instructors: Ali Heydari, Hans Oberschelp,

  • Thursday, February 15: Games with heaps, again. Instructors:

  • Thursday, February 22: Encrypting and decrypting, again. Instructors:

  • Thursday, March 1: TBA (UC Davis field trip?)

  • Thursday, March 8: TBA (UC Davis field trip?)

  • Thursday, March 15: Design your own tesselation! Instructors: