National Young Scholars Program

Sheela was nominated to a program for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders called the National Young Scholars Program. I've never heard of it before, but her 2nd grader teacher nominated six kids to the program this year. Three of them are friends of Sheela's. It sounds pretty cool to me (rather like summer camp for geeks). It is a week long program at a hotel downtown. She would share a room with 1-3 other girls and do a research project with a team of other kids. It looks like the Dallas camp only offers one topic for the third graders - it's a forensics class (fingerprinting and hair analysis). It sounds like a condensed version of DI. It is, of course, very pricey so we will probably pass (plus she is pretty nervous about staying away for a week) but it was flattering to be nominated.