'Hell Week' for U.S. Teen Scientists

&#62; They're the people who will succeed or fail in launching successors to Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Amgen (AMGN), and Genetech (DNA).<p>What part of being a child prodigy or going through "hell week" summer schools makes you entrepeneurial? What they're going through grooms them for careers in academia, which has relatively little to do with building products and companies.<p>&#62; Tyle says he feels a much closer connection with his fellow young scientists than with his high school classmates.<p>This is setting him up to be out of touch with what people like, what they want, and how they respond to new ideas. How is that helpful?

"Although fears are widespread that science education in the U.S. is far behind that of China and India, Tyle and his friends are doing their best to prove that belief wrong."<p>I don't think when people say "science education" they're referring to "some of the best and brightest U.S. high school students" taking summer classes at MIT; they're talking about regular high schoolers taking regular classes at regular schools.<p>This program is cool, but it doesn't do much to say "Look at the US, it's good at science education after all"

&#62; Andrew Yeager, a professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, has been judging the ISEF for nine years and the Intel Science Talent Search for more than 20. "The level of sophistication in these projects is in many cases beyond the level of graduate school and doctoral research," Yeager says.<p>So why not award them graduate school degrees?

You know how FOX tells you that your dentist is dealing drugs to your kids. This is the same, only target at worried middle class parents convinced by the idea that academic success equals success in life.

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