The culmination of the project was a joint symposium on the University of Chicago Campus in which some 140 students and teachers from all the classes came together and students debated the issues in a general panel that was followed by smaller groups meetings. General knowledge contest in game-show format for high school students and their parents on April 16, 2000. Cash awards and other gifts. Series of five Saturday morning seminars, beginning March 4, 2000. Top notch scholars give a presentation of a topic in their field, including recent developments.
Seminars are free and open to the public.
Activities include presentations, demonstrations and guided tours. Interns work for 6 weeks in research laboratories and get hands-on exposure to ongoing research. It is now used regularly in more than a dozen elementary, middle and high schools in southern California, for a variety of subjects, including math, science, English and social studies. The idea is for students to solve problems as efficiently as possible, selecting only information that will be useful to them. In one exercise, students play the part of a forensic scientist asked to identify the true parents of a girl, who suspects she may have been the victim of a mix-up in a maternity ward.