Introductory Survey

Hello,

My name is Rachel Green.  I stumbled upon this group when looking through
the community groups and thought it sounded interesting, although I thought
at first that it focused on infographics in general.  Still, the problems
sound interesting, especially in terms of making educational materials more
accessible, and I'd like to help if I could.

Now, I don't really think I could contribute at this point; I didn't really
know about much about this topic, so I'll be more of a student for now.

I have had experience with print design, and a bit of web design and
development.  I've quite a bit of experience with Python and MATLAB, two
programming languages.  I can also stumble my way around C if need be. I
have used some of Adobe's Creative Programs, as well as LaTex, a language
for creating academic works.

The summer after my sophomore year in college (university for those outside
the U.S.) I worked on a team transcribing an 800-page course textbook for
an electrical engineering professor into Powerpoint slides (the slides were
written using LaTex, with the pictures created via Asymptote, a programming
language similar to C).  The summer after my junior year, I worked again
for that professor, helping maintain and develop a website that's a
repository for questions, such as the type teachers use for homework and
exams.

I guess given this background it's easy to see that I'm interested in how
you can make STEM education materials more accessible.  Especially as you
get into higher levels of math, I'm struggling to understand how else you
could describe functions and such without physically writing them down.
 But yeah, I'd really like to learn a lot right now, and contribute where I
can.

Regards,

Rachel Green