Prof. Patrick Stein

“Prof.” Patrick Stein is a Davidson Young Scholar alum who has always loved learning. His favorite early childhood activities included reading fact books, learning about science, and observing traffic. He graduated from high school with honors through online courses, homeschool, and a charter school at the age of 14.

Since childhood, Patrick has loved learning about numbers and math in particular. Patrick is especially passionate about learning chemistry and physics and graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a chemistry major and physics minor in 2024. He enjoys applying math to understand and explain these two subjects. He also loves to help others learn science and math and has enjoyed tutoring other students at his local community college since 2022.

Patrick is deeply passionate about learning about chemistry, math, and physics and loves helping others learn about his favorite subjects. He has found that the subjects are closely related and interact frequently. He knows from experience that they can be challenging to learn because the topics will quickly build on each other. Patrick also knows that practice is crucial to learn problem solving for these subjects, but also makes sure practice doesn’t become too boring or repetitive!

In his free time, Patrick enjoys keeping up with scientific journals, perusing maps, writing comedic stories, and playing on the Athena’s Minecraft™ Servers, where he inspires creativity and adventure.