Herman Bekele is TIME's 2024 Kid if the Year

[Anonymous]

https://time.com/6996507/heman-bekele/

He's a rising sophomore at Woodson High School

[Anonymous]

Amazing kid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazing kid!

Absolutely!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://time.com/6996507/heman-bekele/

He's a rising sophomore at Woodson High School

Be interesting to know if he is recruited by colleges like athletes are recruited

[Anonymous]

Very cool kid. I’m thrilled for him.

[Anonymous]

Excellent!

[Anonymous]

Seems amazing and it is well deserved.

It would be great however, if they could profile a kid whose parents grew up poor in the United States and has zero connections. All these young science winners seem to have one thing in common- connections. His was that he attended a networking event at the Melanoma Research Alliance. How many high schoolers get to go to networking meetings?

My husband who is a scientist said there are papers previously published using imiquimod for basal-cell carcinoma.

[Anonymous]

Awesome kid. Will probably go to Harvard on full scholarship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems amazing and it is well deserved.

It would be great however, if they could profile a kid whose parents grew up poor in the United States and has zero connections. All these young science winners seem to have one thing in common- connections. His was that he attended a networking event at the Melanoma Research Alliance. How many high schoolers get to go to networking meetings?

My husband who is a scientist said there are papers previously published using imiquimod for basal-cell carcinoma.

His contribution is the idea of putting it in soap as a prophylactic.

[Anonymous]

It’s kind of weird to name someone “of the year” when it is only August, not even close to the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems amazing and it is well deserved.

It would be great however, if they could profile a kid whose parents grew up poor in the United States and has zero connections. All these young science winners seem to have one thing in common- connections. His was that he attended a networking event at the Melanoma Research Alliance. How many high schoolers get to go to networking meetings?

My husband who is a scientist said there are papers previously published using imiquimod for basal-cell carcinoma.

According to the article, he was looking to use soap for a delivery vehicle rather than a cream in order to lower the cost. It's kind of missing the point of pharma patents and drug costs but at least he's thinking about the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems amazing and it is well deserved.

It would be great however, if they could profile a kid whose parents grew up poor in the United States and has zero connections.

You can't do science without connections. If a poor student was to start from nothing and become successful in science, networking would be a large part of their success. Then, people reading the article would consider them privileged for having the connections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://time.com/6996507/heman-bekele/

He's a rising sophomore at Woodson High School

Be interesting to know if he is recruited by colleges like athletes are recruited

Maybe. He ticks the equity boxes and college love a con artist with a good phony story, er, "leadership skills".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems amazing and it is well deserved.

It would be great however, if they could profile a kid whose parents grew up poor in the United States and has zero connections. All these young science winners seem to have one thing in common- connections. His was that he attended a networking event at the Melanoma Research Alliance. How many high schoolers get to go to networking meetings?

My husband who is a scientist said there are papers previously published using imiquimod for basal-cell carcinoma.

According to the article, he was looking to use soap for a delivery vehicle rather than a cream in order to lower the cost. It's kind of missing the point of pharma patents and drug costs but at least he's thinking about the problem.

He's promoting a worthless snake oil cancer cure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s kind of weird to name someone “of the year” when it is only August, not even close to the end of the year.

Your brain is going to explode when you learn about school year and fiscal year.