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<p>Our son has taught for several MIT programs, though I think most are for high school students rather than middle school students (I know his current one is), but for one of them (either Splash or Spark, and maybe those do include middle school students?), they had a child from HAWAII there (and his mother wrote them that she plans to send him to MIT for other programs in the future as the kid so enjoyed his weekend there). She gave the teachers (via the son, as I am not sure that she herself came to MIT) chocolate covered macademia nuts to thank them and in writing this, I see how funny that is as it has academia in it! Anyway, he liked the treat, as did I am sure the other teachers.</p>