
	{"id":3496,"date":"2015-09-10T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2016-09-19T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T18:27:33","slug":"imacs-success-spotlight-shakthi-shrima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/imacs-success-spotlight-shakthi-shrima\/","title":{"rendered":"IMACS Success Spotlight: <br\/>Shakthi Shrima"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\">\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Shakthi-Shrima.jpg\" alt=\"After school, weekend and online programs in math and computer science for gifted children who enjoy fun, academic challenges.\" title=\"Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3497\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\nCongratulations to IMACS graduate Shakthi Shrima who will attend Princeton this fall.\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As a homeschooled student, Shakthi could learn computer science anywhere. She chose <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/\">IMACS<\/a>. From 10th grade to 12th grade, Shakthi completed IMACS&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/parent_csoverview.htm\">Modern Computer Science<\/a> track, which includes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/parent_ucs_overview.htm#UCS1\">University Computer Science I<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/parent_ucs_overview.htm#UCS2\">University Computer Science II<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/parent_apcsoverview.htm\">AP Computer Science: Java Programming<\/a>. Shakthi directly credits <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/about.htm\">IMACS<\/a> for her ability to deftly switch between various programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>Shakthi&#8217;s multiple talents have earned her numerous honors. Original research in Number Theory propelled her and her teammates to the finals of the 2014 Siemens Competition in Math, Science &#038; Technology where they won a $20,000 scholarship. Shakthi shines as a writer as well, having been named a 2015 YoungArts Winner in Poetry by the National YoungArts Foundation. As a high school student, she earned an &quot;A&quot; in UT Austin&#8217;s graduate-level course in Abstract Algebra.<\/p>\n<p>Shakthi was accepted at <b>Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley and UCLA<\/b> and will attend Princeton where she plans to study theoretical math, creative writing and philosophy. She hopes to do research in some capacity throughout her career, either in academia or in a think-tank.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 2em 2em;\">\n<p><b><font face=\"georgia\" size=3>&ldquo;I chose IMACS because it was thorough &mdash; it combined my predilection for theory and concept with rigor and practicality, both of which are needed to learn computer science well.&rdquo;<\/font><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to IMACS graduate Shakthi Shrima who will attend Princeton this fall. As a homeschooled student, Shakthi could learn computer science anywhere. She chose IMACS. From 10th grade to 12th grade, Shakthi completed IMACS&#8217; Modern Computer Science track, which includes University Computer Science I, University Computer Science II and AP Computer Science: Java Programming. Shakthi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ap-computer-science-2","category-computer-programming","category-online-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eimacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}