Hello,
My name is
Jonah Sinick, I'm starting an advising service to help intellectually curious young people called
Cognito Mentoring, in collaboration with
Vipul Naik.
We spent several months researching the educational resources that are available to high performing students, college selection and college admissions, psychological findings on intellectual giftedness, and the experiences of past and current members of the population that we're serving, and we�re ready to help. We're currently offering
free personalized advising by email, Skype, or phone. You can reach us at:
cognitomentoring@gmail.com
About us: Jonah Sinick graduated from Swarthmore College in 2007, and finished a PhD in pure math at University of Illinois in 2011. He has substantial experience working with intellectually gifted young people: he spent 3 summers working at MathPath (a camp for mathematically gifted middle schoolers) taught math at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (an academic magnet high school) and is currently teaching a math class for Art of Problem Solving. He worked for a year at GiveWell, an organization that works on finding outstanding philanthropic opportunities in global health and other causes. He's done research for Machine Intelligence Research Institute, an organization that promotes safe artificial intelligence.
Vipul Naik finished PhD in pure math at University of Chicago in 2013. He represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2003 and 2004, and won Silver Medals both times. He has experience preparing students for mathematical olympiads, and taught calculus and linear algebra at University of Chicago for years. He started a website called Groupprops designed as a reference for people learning and working in group theory. He has also worked on other projects, such as online math videos and a website dedicated to discussing
