Siemens Competition participation

mathmom
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:21:38 +0000

At our school’s science research program, kids spend a semester outlining Scientific American articles (10 a week) and another semester reading and summarizing real scientific journal articles in a field they’ve identified as interesting. By the time they go looking for a professor to work for they can talk intelligently about their research. Our teacher (at least at the time my older son dropped out of the program) was of no help finding mentors. His view was that if you expected to be taking essentially a college level course you had to behave like a college level kid and that meant finding your own mentors.