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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

PP is correct. She my DD was at PHS SMCS they work on these projects with their teachers and classmates and use the labs. My child was a Regeneron participant but not a finalist. She did however win the Capital House of Code competition and also Systems Dynamics that led to her first scientific publication overseas. None of this would have been possible at her home HS. These kids have insane connections as some of their teachers taught or participated in prestigious research at schools like Carnegie Mellon, Harvard and Cal Poly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

Look up the SMCS curriculum.

MCPS will just call these other schools a STEM magnet while offering a percentage of these classes that will have to be dumbed down. Mediocrity wins.

Yawn. You have no idea the lack of stem at many schools.

I do since I have at one of those schools. I am also knowledgeable of the smcs curriculum. Should they have more focus in the local schools? Yes. Should they dismantle programs that serve high achieving students like this girl? No

How do you know this girl wasn't zoned for Watkins Mill or Gaithersburg HS?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

Look up the SMCS curriculum.

MCPS will just call these other schools a STEM magnet while offering a percentage of these classes that will have to be dumbed down. Mediocrity wins.

Yawn. You have no idea the lack of stem at many schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

Stem classes and clubs through Mcps.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

Look up the SMCS curriculum.

MCPS will just call these other schools a STEM magnet while offering a percentage of these classes that will have to be dumbed down. Mediocrity wins.

Fantastic achievement! Congratulations to her!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

She comes from a superpower country.
Has a family, food to eat, clothes to wear, books to read and air to breathe.
She is not an alcoholic or drug addict.
She is not living in a war-torn area.
She is healthy enough to be educated.

Do you know what that means? Priviledge. Any kid that has these amazing opportunities can be a finalist.

Any yet not all of them are.

Ah...could it be that those who are not finalists are just dumb and/or super slackers ...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

She comes from a superpower country.
Has a family, food to eat, clothes to wear, books to read and air to breathe.
She is not an alcoholic or drug addict.
She is not living in a war-torn area.
She is healthy enough to be educated.

Do you know what that means? Priviledge. Any kid that has these amazing opportunities can be a finalist.

Any yet not all of them are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Yes they will. But many of our kids don’t even have access to stem or ap science so stop complaining if yours does.

No they won't. These classes at Poolesville and Blair will be inaccessible to the majority of the county. And it is highly. unlikely that they will be able to replicate this at the other future "magnets".

FWIW I have no kid currently in any magnet program

Enjoy this moment. As soon as the magnets are "reimagined" and become just like the "everyone is an honors class student" and scoring 2-3s on APs is just what it is, some future students will wonder what could have been.
Congrats Poolesville!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

She comes from a superpower country.
Has a family, food to eat, clothes to wear, books to read and air to breathe.
She is not an alcoholic or drug addict.
She is not living in a war-torn area.
She is healthy enough to be educated.

Do you know what that means? Priviledge. Any kid that has these amazing opportunities can be a finalist.

Anonymous wrote:The 48 Finalists. Congrats!!!

oops...40.

What's common among all/most of the scholars?

https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2026-scholars/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Trust me, Her success had nothing to do with the classes at Poolesville!

She has the access to classes at Poolesville, which helps her get internships/situations that allow her those opportunities, along with her parents. Lets be real, its all about connections and opportunities. You think a kid without connections and only having honors science classes, not even AP, can achieve that?

What are the special opportunities or connections that she luckily accesses that no one can?

The 48 Finalists. Congrats!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her.

Too bad that future students like her most likely won't have access to the classes that made this possible.

Yes they will. But many of our kids don’t even have access to stem or ap science so stop complaining if yours does.

PP is correct. The number of students allowed in the Poolesville cohort will be lowered, and without access to as same large number of schools, the quality of the program will be affected. But more students will have more access to STEM programs, likely to be lower in quality.

The quality will not be lowered. Many of our kids don’t get stem opportunities which in not equitable more magnets is good but offering more classes at the none schools so kids can at least have ap classes should be the standard.