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[quote=Anonymous]Many don’t go looking for it. They happen into them because of who they are and time and place.

Child goes to a public lecture because their brand of nerdery means they volunteer at a national park, nature center, or maybe they are in a D&D community, or take music lessons at an independent music shop and hang out and jam with other people and through these communities hear about a public lecture because someone knows kid is interested or bc of shared interests.  Kid looks up lecture, figures out a way to go, goes to lecture, enjoys lecture and is engaged and asks a really great question, but maybe it isn’t really answered. A professor who is sitting nearby strikes up a conversation with kid and invites kid to come to a thesis defense on a related topic.  Kid goes, is engaged, and gets along with all the other grad students.  Kid is well-read on topic and holds their own in the group. The lab across the hall happens to have just won a grant to work with HS students and one of the grad students suggests kid apply.  Kid is rejected because kid is not perfect fit for that project, but the application stands out, and the researcher is working on a fun side project with an educational component so they offer the kid a summer internship on that project provided the kid can pair that work with a school course.

Kid never sought out an internship working to create a coding curriculum for middle school students with reading-based disorders when they went to Banjo lessons sophomore year. Kid’s genuine interest and enthusiasm for learning the banjo made them an interesting kid people who frequented the store liked to be around. Or maybe the kid works at the ice cream shop where the local paper’s editor buys her weekly pint of rum raisin. Kid’s powers of observation and natural interviewing style shine when kid chats with editor. Editor find out kid writes for the HS paper, etc.

Who doesn’t love a nerd out living life? [/quote]

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