Featured image, above, is of Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Placement Calculus Instructor at Dr. Phillips High School, with Kathi Brooks Myers, award winning math student at Dr. Phillips, photo circa 1980s.
Anna Mae Patz coached the Dr. Phillips High School Math Team to win first place in Orange County, coached them to state, and to winning nationals. Mrs. Patz led the team from 1990s-2003 and has served as a mathematics educator in Orange County Public Schools for 38 years.
Kathi Brooks Myers, Dr. Phillips High School valedictorian, went on to University of Central Florida to pursue a degree in teaching, and later worked as an intern at Dr. Phillips High School with Anna Mae Patz.
Mrs. Patz 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 in this excerpt from her oral history interview on October 31, 2011.
LISTEN (4:03)
Coleman Technologies paid for 50 students from Dr. Phillips High School to travel to the math competitions. 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.
Photo of the champion Dr. Phillips High School Math Team, led by Mrs. Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Placement Calculus instructor at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida. Pictured from left to right beginning with the bottom row – Amanda Jordan, Nadine Nitisusanta Andrea Leung, Rebecca Llyod, Myla Reed.; middle row – Nathan Treible, Brent Mayer, Longley Thomason, Mrs. Anna Mae Patz, Adam Leonard, Sarah Moody; top row – Jimmy Nicholson, Steve Fenn, Ankur Patel, and Daniel Kim.
Interview date: October 31, 2011
Interviewer: Jane Tracy
Please see other images under Attachments below.
Back to top
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...
Anna Mae Patz
May 25, 2008 photo of Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Calculus instructor at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando.
Anna Mae Patz and Kathi Brooks Myers at Dr. Phillips High School
Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Placement Calculus Instructor at Dr. Phillips High School, with Kathi Brooks Myers, award winning math student at Dr....
I would like to correct some names listed for the Dr Phillips math team mentioned above. All are dear friends and many are still in touch. The correct names are:
Nadine Nitisusanta
Andrea Leung
Nathan Treible
Longley Thomason
Ankur Patel
Thank you so much for contacting us with the correct spellings of the Math Team members’ names. What a thrill that must have been to go all the way to Nationals and win! What an amazing effort and good old hard work!