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Write an educational essay and win $300!

Here is your chance to show off your teaching skills! (TODO finish paragraph)

The guidelines for your submission are as follows:

  1. You must choose a topic from the field of Mathematics, Engineering, or Computer Science that you believe is a fundamental concept to that field.
  2. Create a wiki page on Rhea and create a link to it at the bottom of this page.
  3. Follow the grading criteria below.


All Rhea users will be able to view submissions, and we will allow users to rate submissions based on the following criteria:

  • Importance of chosen topic to the field
    • Examples: the Fourier Transform for Engineering, or perhaps the theory of NP-Completeness for Computer Science
  • Quality of explanation
    • Intuitive and accessible explanation of the topic, showing mastery of the information yet being able to distill the information into key points using correct grammar
  • Use of wiki as a teaching tool
    • Illustrative examples through images, latex, and
  • Accuracy of information


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Abstract algebra continues the conceptual developments of linear algebra, on an even grander scale.

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