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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"In 11th grade, students write a research proposal and have to find a mentor outside of the school (at a govt. lab or university lab) to work with. They spend two months during the summer before 12th grade doing the research with their mentor (very often as part of the mentor's larger research group) and write a paper and presentation during the first semester of 12th grade. Many of these papers and presentations are entered into competitions. They do receive a lot of support from the senior scientist in this effort and are supervised by a Blair science teacher but I don't think it is accurate to describe it as tutoring."

Bullshit.  They wash dishes at the lab and then write up what the lab was doing.  You don't do groundbreaking research in 2 months!!!

When will we stop deluding ourselves?[/quote]

As a federal government scientist with many years of working experience with intern students, I found juniors and seniors from Blair, Poolsville, RMIB and TJ are often much better and much more "useful" than a general UMD senior student, at least in our STEM field. These high schoolers are incredible at learning and grasping new ideas and techniques and had been exposed to many programing experiences, so they can achieve much more than a college or even sometimes graduate school intern. They are never wasted by us at washing dishes or tubes for 2 months. We often fight to secure a high school senior from these programs.  [/quote]

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