ABOVE: Photo of the champion Dr. Phillips Math Team, led by Mrs. Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Placement Calculus instructor at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, FL. Pictured from left to right beginning with the first row from the bottom are: Amanda Jordan, Nadine Naturnisha, Andrea Lenang, Rebecca Llyod, Myla Reed, Nathan Treebal, Brent Mayer, Langley Thomson, Mrs. Anna Mae Patz, Adam Leonard, Sarah Moody, Jimmy Nicholson, Steve Fenn, Ankura Vyas, and Daniel Kim.
We need people educated and I think we here in Orlando stand at really the foreground. We have all of the facilities that are available and we can take care of a lot of students at the university and prepare them for technological jobs. There are plenty of places in the area where they can find work.
Anna Mae Patz, a mathematics educator in Orange County Public Schools for 38 years, reflects on the excellent quality of education in Orange County, the school changes which benefit our society, and the outstanding opportunities for technological education and careers in Orlando. Hear the technology education excerpt from her oral history interview on October 31, 2011.
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Mrs. Patz’s two older sons, Ben and Mark Patz, work together at the Orlando company, Coleman Technologies founded by Jeff Coleman. Coleman Technologies was named the #1 fastest growing company in Central Florida in 2000 and recently merged with Presidio. Ben Patz, CEO of Coleman Technologies, was awarded Florida’s Entrepreneur of the Year for technology services in 2002 and the UCF College of Engineering & Computer Science 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award.
ABOVE: News article on the award winning Dr. Phillips High School Math Team, High Mu Alpha Theta, led by Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Placement Calculus instructor at the school. Excerpt: “The team is very happy with its win. When asked what their inspiration to join the team was, they all said the same thing: Ms. Patz.”
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Dr. Phillips Math Team
Photo of the champion Dr. Phillips Math Team, led by Mrs. Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Placement Calculus instructor at Dr. Phillips High...
Dr. Phillips Math Team Wins Competition
News article on the award winning Dr. Phillips High School Math Team, High Mu Alpha Theta, led by Anna Mae Patz, Advanced...
"Who wants to get a computer? Nobody volunteered so I was elected." So I put out a proposal to get a computer system at UCF and we got bids from Data General and Digital Equipment Corporation...
Remembering the assembly language, programming, machine code, software from the early 1970s at UCF. Dr. Benjamin Patz, worked in the Engineering and Computer Science Department at the time and recalls the department chair, Bruce Matthews, asking, "Who wants to get a computer?" Nobody volunteered so Dr. Patz took on the project. He describes the task of selecting equipment and getting good manuals for the students. He says, "You still talk to students who are using some of the same material even now."
He remembers when Dr. Simmons got an analog computer system at UCF. Then after they got the mini computer system, microcomputers started to come out and you could use an L socket to make electronic experiments. You could also build yourself a microcomputer.
Don Medoff, at Stromberg Carlson, a member of IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and IEEE Computer Society, was a founder of the microcomputer conferences in Orlando. Dr. Patz ran the conferences for several years.
Dr. Patz shares how through his involvement with IEEE he met Terry Greenfield at the Cape, Ben Symeko at the Naval Training Equipment Center, and other people working on interesting computer projects in this area. He outlines some of the computer challenges and solutions which they faced as well as the benefits of building your own code.
Learn more about the history of computer technology in Central Florida in this excerpt (below) from an oral history interview with Dr. Benjamin Patz on October 31, 2011.
Dr. Benjamin Patz's scientific contributions to our area include working in the GENESYS Program at Cape Canaveral, Lockheed Martin, teaching at the Naval Training Equipment Center, Rollins College, and the University of Central Florida. His students from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at UCF recall Professor Patz as a patient teacher who spent diligent time with everyone, undergraduate or graduate. In the GENESYS Program at the Cape his students were people working at Martin Marietta and NASA. Dr. Patz says, "They had interesting problems they would discuss with you... It was a good chance to go over control systems, electromagnetic fields, the boundary value problems."
The Quality of Education in Orange County: Then & Now
We need people educated and I think we here in Orlando stand at really the foreground. We have all of the facilities that are available and we can take care of a lot of students at the university and prepare them for technological jobs. There are plenty of places in the area where they can find work.
Anna Mae Patz, a mathematics educator in Orange County Public Schools for 38 years, reflects on the excellent quality of education in Orange County, the school changes which benefit our society, and the outstanding opportunities for technology education and careers in Orlando. Hear the technology education excerpt (below) from her oral history interview on October 31, 2011.
Mrs. Patz's two older sons, Ben and Mark Patz work together at the Orlando company, Coleman Technologies founded by Jeff Coleman. Coleman Technologies was named the #1 fastest growing company in Central Florida in 2000 and recently merged with Presidio. Ben Patz, CEO of Coleman Technologies, was awarded Florida's Entrepreneur of the Year for technology services in 2002 and the UCF College of Engineering & Computer Science 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award.
