LORMAN — For six weeks this summer, Alcorn State University Math Center — funded by Title III — assisted the Upward Bound Program participants by serving them with math tutoring, including completing worksheets, online math tutoring and different strategies for solving problems.

Upward Bound Program high school students were from Adams, Jefferson, Wilkinson and Claiborne counties. The students were divided into three groups and each group visited the math center once a day for one hour. Every day they were assigned work from their ACT classroom textbook and were asked to work in the lab. Tutors assisted students with their assignments.

The math center, under the guidance of Satya Redla and with the help of Alcorn State University undergraduate student assistants, worked very hard on improving math skills of the participants.

“We feel that these students definitely are going to do their ACT better than before,” Redla said. “We thank Dr. Reginald Lindsey, dean of the School of Arts and Science, for spending time at Math Center with the participants. We appreciate Upward Bound Program Director Lucille Donaldson’s decision to keep these students at Math Center for additional help.”

“I learned something new every day in the Math Center,” Natchez High student Shandease Heisser said.

Eleventh-grade student Dylan Coles also attended.

“They have been very helpful,” he said. “If anyone of us needed help they would stop what they were doing and help us. They are great.”