(TNS) — On a recent afternoon at Dr. Kiran C. Patel High School, teens in blue and gray school uniforms scribbled calculus equations with Expo markers, furrowing their brows.
Eric MacDonald, 16, shook his head, stumped by the equation before him and three other students in the school’s math club. He took an orange rag dinged with marker stains and wiped the desk to make room for another challenge.
Math isn’t MacDonald’s primary passion. But the skills he hones in the club do tie into his love for computer science…