Re: Neuro Summer Camp

send me details on past work„ are they from good schools or urbanites

By the way, my department (neurosurgery) has a summer camp for high school girls where we pick 5 of the smartest high school girls from the region - take them to the OR and make them work on a lab-based project. Some are bench, some are computer, some are clinical. For the past few years, all of the girls have published at least one peer-reviewed paper and every single one of them has aced the SAT and gotten into their first choice college. I'm hoping they will all be neurosurgeons but I suspect most will do hard science or something else.

It's pretty cheap to run but I want to expand it to 8 girls and pay for a few field visits for them (around town) and maybe even invite a Nobel laureate or two to come visit them.

So if you are still giving out money for science (this is girl's science) let me know? I put in $15K of my own salary and the foundation matches some of it. Budget is now about $75K annually that my chairman and I have a small grant for but pls consider this one

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in your lineup. OK? It's at the University so charitable, etc. Plus the girls are super smart.

sorry typo budget is $35K.

we're done for this year and won't get back to work till spring (for the summer session) next year.

we've been pretty unorganized in the overall administrative structure but tried hard to make stuff useful for the girls. we have been slow to add an administrative layer because then we'd need to use resources to keep them all going. it's easy to add layers like that but hard to take them away.

i spend quite a lot of time mentoring young girls - primarily at seattle girls school which is an interesting mix of super poor and super rich (rich subsidize tuition for poor). there are also some strong prep schools (like lakeside where bill g went to school, their endowment is enormous)•

the ones who get the most out of it tend to have fewer opportunities, work harder, are more competitive and generally minorities. rich non-minority girls have tended to be more motivated by the attention they receive for the work than by actually caring about the work.

every kid should see at least one neurosurgery. i think it changes their life! keep it in mind. when we get back to work on it i will be back in touch about it. such small numbers, I'd like to keep it that way and make it super exclusive. since we are limiting to high school girls, we can only pool from local places. if we made a decision to expand to undergrad, it would be a bigger commitment. not sure i can do that with all of my other "jobs".