From the Ardent archive

Twenty years in photographs

Photographs Ardent kept, in the order they happened. They are not restored — a 2009 photograph looks like a 2009 photograph, and that is the point.

2009
Twenty-four students in green Math Olympiad t-shirts stand in two rows outdoors, with Dr. Li at the right edge. A printed caption bar names the 2009 Orange County Math Olympiad Summer Camp and Avid Academy for Gifted Youth.

The summer camp cohort

Session B–I, grades 5 and 6, over two weeks in July. The shirts read Avid Academy for Gifted Youth — the name Ardent operated under then.

Orange County Math Olympiad Summer Camp · July 20–31, 2009

Students crowded together indoors, holding up geometric constructions built from coloured rods and connectors.

What they built

Geometry by hand, before it was geometry on paper.

Summer camp · 2009

A classroom at Concordia University, Irvine. Dr. Li stands at the front pointing at a projected slide headed Problem Solving is Interesting Math, with students at tables watching.

The room at Concordia

The slide reads Problem Solving is Interesting Math. It is still the argument.

Concordia University, Irvine · 2009

Ardent began as the Orange County Math Olympiad Summer Camp at Concordia University, Irvine, ran for years as Avid Academy for Gifted Youth, and became Ardent Academy. The name changed; the classes did not.

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