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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at the outcomes for prior winners/finalists, the contest (westinghouse then intel) has quite an amazing predictive track record. Eight went on to receive Nobel Prizes, two earned the Fields Medal, five have been awarded the National Medal of Science, twelve received MacArthur Fellowships; 56 have been named Sloan Research Fellows; 30 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences; and five have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.  As a scientist I too was somewhat dubious about most projects really consisting of a set of experiments or ideas being handed to the students by a PI or a grad student, but somehow the judges manage to cull the students who are truly innovative and talented from the general pool of kids working in their next door neighbor's lab at NIH!
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Blair magnet has always attracted some of the best and brightest from more affluent areas and their already Good schools to the eastern part of MoCo which was the whole point of the magnate program. That said the magnat program has little in common with the rest of the school other than proping up its test scores to the point Blair parents think their kids are getting an an above ave education. What is Blair now on great schools and 8? It would most likely be a 5-6 without the influx of out of area talent that never really mingles with the local kids.

The winner would have been bright and even if he went to his home school of Walter Johnson. There is a reason there is no magnate program at Whitman, just saying.[/quote]

There is indeed a magnate program at Whitman.

Re the Intel winner, it is not about being bright.  It is about Blair's program and what students like him can do given those resources.  If this were not so, there would be "bright" students from other schools winning at comparable rates.  This has never been the case.

The reason there is no magnet program at other schools is that there are not enough qualified students in any given HS feeder area to make up such a program, Whitman included.[/quote]

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