ELLIE PLACHINSKI

is a twelfth grade student at the Prairie School who intends to pursue an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her education in mathematics currently extends to Calculus II level courses, and she is the incumbent president of the Upper School Math Club. Apart from her avid interest in mathematics, she enjoys studying chemistry, American literature, astrophysics, and the violin, which she has played for almost fourteen years. Ellie wishes to study in Budapest, Cambridge, or Rome in the future.