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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's even more telling is that none of the DC schools (public, private or charter) have produced more than a single USAMO qualifier in over five years. In a city that has a fairly large contingent of highly educated parents, one would think that the number should be higher by chance alone.[/quote]

We don't have Regeneron Winners either.  There does need to be some institutional initiative for things like USAMO or Regeneron to happen.  Certainly a school like TJ has an administration and teachers that care about things like this and create the framework for this to happen.

I know Regeneron in particular needs the school to have a scientific facts committee, faculty sponsors, etc.  A kid can't just have a great idea and enter the main competition that gets all the press every year.

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Wrong.  DC has Regeneron winners, at least from private schools.  Just check the winner lists for the past few years.[/quote]

I am talking the main STS contest winners, not the random science fairs.  DC hasn't had one I think ever.[/quote]

PP you are probably correct. Regeneron requires a lot of available infrastructure. Looking at some of the projects, it is clear that none of them are possible without a well resourced laboratory and a pipeline for placing students within them (for example there was one about a gene knockout in fruit fly as a model of muscular disease which needs fly stocks, mutagenesis kits, screening facilities and imaging - i.e. a university lab). Of course DC has some good to decent universities but there seems to be a limited pipeline in area schools for placing interested kids within them. Certainly DCPS has nothing of that sort.

USAMO qualification on the other hand just needs pen and paper and a willingness to solve hard math problems. [/quote]

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