<p>Mathyone, you are so right. My daughter is a STEM major at Yale, but her public school (and a good one at that, with lots of APs) has great inertia in doing any extracurricular STEM activities. My husband, bless his heart, worked his butt off to get them to give the ACM test in 12th grade, but then they “forgot” once he was no longer pushing it for her. Glibly saying “just do it” does not understand the reality of (most) public schools.</p>