Annually NCSSM presents a two-day conference, Teaching Contemporary Mathematics. The program includes ideas for precalculus and calculus that incorporate technology, realistic applications, mathematical modeling, and student involvement. Topics relevant to the AP Statistics Curriculum are also be addressed. Conference presentations and activities help participants enhance their everyday teaching through the use of the computer or graphing calculator and through an introduction to content and pedagogy that enables students to become active mathematical learners and problem-solvers. Ideas are applicable to precalculus and calculus as well as algebra II, and statistics. For more information, go to the Teaching Contemporary Mathematics website.

The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics has been hosting an annual conference focused on current issues in ethics and leadership since 1998. Hundreds of high school students attend the conference each year with their teachers or other adult chaperones. The conference agenda is designed so that schools within a two hour drive of Durham can board activity buses after their students arrive for class and get to NCSSM in time to register; and the students can leave in time to meet a school bus that will take them home. For more information, go to http://www.ncssm.edu/elc.